13 Aug
2019
13 Aug
'19
10:38 a.m.
I can attest to that. ;-)
Where I went (CMU) the CS department grew out of the Math department?while I was there the
only degree that the CS department granted was PhD. So everyone else majored in something
else (EE in my case?which had a bunch of digital stuff but still focused on a lot of
theory?differential equations, electromagnetic fields/waves and communications theory) and
took CS courses as electives (which focused on data structures, algorithms, etc?e.g. a lot
of CS theory).
TTFN - Guy
On Aug 12, 2019, at 11:05 PM, Adam Thornton via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> 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.
Adam