I'm not the OP, but have spent more than my share in CS departments in the US. :) I think it's more of a EU/US distinction. In the US, CS departments typically

I'm not the OP, but have spent more than my share in CS departments in the US. :) I think it's more of a EU/US distinction. In the US, CS departments typically include both the theory (of computation, algorithms, data structures, complexity, etc) as well as a healthy dose of applied CS, which then divides up into: systems (operating systems, networking, etc), applications (scientific computing, AI, etc), interfaces (graphics, HCI, etc) and a number of other ones depending on the department. This topic definitely fits into intro-level material in a systems division of a CS department in the US. In comparison, US "computer engineering" tends to include much more emphasis on the hardware (including CPU design, circuits design, etc) and overlaps with CS in low-level aspects of systems. How about it?