On 8/13/19 2:05 AM, Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote: > At Rice in the early 90s the department was "Electrical and Computer > Engineering" if my hazy memory serves. > > The genealogy of Computer Science departments (and their curricula) (at least > in the US) is also weird and historically-contingent. Basically it seems to > have been a tossup at any given school whether it came out of the > Electr[ical|onic] Engineering department, in which case it was memories and > logic gates and a bottom-up, hardware-focused curriculum, or out of the > Mathematics department, in which case it was algorithms and complexity > analysis and a software-focused curriculum.
In the early 80's West Point had "Geography and Computer Science". CS has always been the red headed step child..... bill
