Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT: Does Computer Science Need Computers? Date: 5 Sep 2026 18:31:40 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <117fsgk$140cn$1@dont-email.me> <117ggsg$1ageh$1@dont-email.me> <117gmsa$1c525$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net qWNk4bam8h3tQsV33yKk3Ay4mtGJCqlctlFcRWxQL/o1T8NXf9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:q8EwrIGX8yS83BkU58gvhWNtKkk= sha256:XUymKUvT2EOMxPJPrOOcWdfe8ZzVFR5BVmzgTM9UWlY= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:91129 On Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:20:09 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote: > A tragedy is possibly how in English-speaking countries "Computer > Science" > appears to be widely used to denote also most software-related fields > and stuff related to computing machinery. Blame the Brits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Diploma_in_Computer_Science Purdue was arguably the first CS degree in the US. https://www.cs.purdue.edu/history/index.html Florida Institute of Technology also claims to be first. What surprised me was Dartmouth. BASIC was invented there in 1964 and I always assumed they had a CS program. https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/08/30-years-computer-science- department If CS was split off from the Department of Mathematics in 1994 I don't know what degrees were issued before then.