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Indeed, the context reflects the origins of CS departments. They are always were part of physics school and later electrical engineering. All the famous CS pe
by emmelaich 8y ago
Indeed, the context reflects the origins of CS departments. They are always were part of physics school and later electrical engineering.
All the famous CS people over say 60 started in physics or EE.
- dan-robertson 8y agoThis might be true in America but in Europe it is common for the CS department to have been an offshoot of the mathematics department.
- kkylin 8y agoIn the US you find both. More commonly CS came from electrical engineering, but you do find some departments that started as part of mathematics. In any case, as other commenters said, early "computer scientists" often came from physics, math, electrical engineering, etc. (Abelson & Sussman themselves had PhDs in mathematics.)