I am trying to show the youth of computer science education in a small piece i am writing, and I was hoping to refer to when the first computer science course was ever offered by a university. Does anyone know offhand where and when it was. i've tried googling, but with little success thus far.
Stan Kelly-Bootle claims to have been awarded the world's first post-graduate CS degree. He doesn't make this direct claim on what appears to be his personal site:
http://www.feniks.com/skb/about/about.html
...but it is made in some of his columns published in 'UNIX Review', one of which is online here (scroll to the bottom):
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1471/urm0000da/da.htm
That's 1954, from Cambridge. That's older than me, so if it counts as still youthful, I'm happy. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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