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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=   wrote:   
   >On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:53:51 +1100, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >   
   >> We in Electrical Engineering then proposed that CS be merged with the EE   
   >> department, and that's what happened. It wasn't that we felt that CS was   
   >> an engineering discipline. We just wanted to rescue the CS people from a   
   >> fate worse than death.   
   >   
   >Funny how, in the early days (e.g. 1940s/50s/60s), many Comp Sci   
   >disciplines started within electrical/electronic engineering departments.   
      
   In the seventies and eighties there were two kinds of CS programs, the   
   ones that came out of EE departments and the ones that came out of math   
   departments.  They were often dramatically different in their approach   
   and it wasn't until the ACM curriculum of the mid-1980s that this really   
   changed and some degree of uniformity appeared.   
      
   Of course, now we DO have CS departments that have sprung from the heads   
   of business programs.  They are not very CS-like.   
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