Re: Electr* Engineering

2019-08-13 Thread Lee Courtney via cctalk
in the late 1960s and up thru 1979 UTexas at Arlington Computer Science initially only offered a Masters, and was housed in Industrial Engineering. If you wanted an undergrad degree in "computing" you went thru the math department and got a BA or BS in mathematics with an emphasis in computing. I t

Re: Electr* Engineering

2019-08-13 Thread Yeechang Lee via cctalk
Adam Thornton says: > 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 > whi

Re: Electr* Engineering

2019-08-13 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
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 t

Re: Electr* Engineering

2019-08-13 Thread Norman Jaffe via cctalk
tml From: "Kevin McQuiggin" To: "myself" , "cctalk" Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 9:18:53 AM Subject: Re: Electr* Engineering Norman, I recall you! I was at SFU first as a high school student from 1975 then as an undergrad 1977-1981. Elma, Doreen, Ted Sterli

Re: Electr* Engineering

2019-08-13 Thread Kevin McQuiggin via cctalk
ad > taken the first class earlier... > > From: "cctalk" > To: "Adam Thornton" , "cctalk" > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 7:50:15 AM > Subject: Re: Electr* Engineering > > In my school in Canada, the computing science program started ab

Re: Electr* Engineering

2019-08-13 Thread Norman Jaffe via cctalk
earlier... From: "cctalk" To: "Adam Thornton" , "cctalk" Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 7:50:15 AM Subject: Re: Electr* Engineering In my school in Canada, the computing science program started about 1974 and grew out of the math department, but when it was formaliz

Re: Electr* Engineering

2019-08-13 Thread Kevin McQuiggin via cctalk
In my school in Canada, the computing science program started about 1974 and grew out of the math department, but when it was formalized as a department in 1976-77 the university wisely placed it in a new “Interdisciplinary Studies” faculty and staffed the school with people from mathematics, ch

Re: Electr* Engineering

2019-08-13 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 13, 2019, at 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 an

Re: Electr* Engineering

2019-08-13 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
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-contin

Electr* Engineering

2019-08-12 Thread Adam Thornton via cctalk
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