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
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
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
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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
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> 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
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
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
> 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
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
