Well, computer science is not the science of computers, is it? It’s about using computers (in the sense of programming them), not about making computers. Making computers is electrical engineering.
We all know how great we IT people are at naming things ;)
It wasn’t named by IT people, though. It was named by academics. And it’s not about using computers, it’s about computing. Computer science is older than digital electronics.
Mhm, and those academics were no IT people and had nothing to do with computers?
Let’s fact-check that.
Computer Sciences as an academic course was first created by IBM at the Columbia University in 1946. Because IBM had made their first commercial computer two years prior and wanted to have people who could operate it and who could continue to develop it.
Well, computer science is not the science of computers, is it? It’s about using computers (in the sense of programming them), not about making computers. Making computers is electrical engineering.
We all know how great we IT people are at naming things ;)
It wasn’t named by IT people, though. It was named by academics. And it’s not about using computers, it’s about computing. Computer science is older than digital electronics.
Mhm, and those academics were no IT people and had nothing to do with computers?
Let’s fact-check that.
Computer Sciences as an academic course was first created by IBM at the Columbia University in 1946. Because IBM had made their first commercial computer two years prior and wanted to have people who could operate it and who could continue to develop it.