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What would be a better term for it? Maybe "the mathematics of computation"?

• giobox 5y ago
  Some UK institutions (including some pretty respected ones) adopted the term "School of Informatics" and confer Informatics degrees instead of using the term Computer Science. I suspect the university marketing teams will eventually change this to Computer Science much like "Natural Philosophy" evolved into "Physics" at many places though... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics
  • waterfowl 5y ago
    KCL was Informatics and it was broadly classed w/ maths/'natural sciences' when I was there 10 years ago - according to a younger colleague they have since rebranded to CS.
• onorton 5y ago
  In the UK, the A level I took was called "Computing". My university called it that as well and treated it as an MEng rather than an MSc, but most UK universities still call it Computer Science I think.
• havocsupreme 5y ago
  Algorithmic Engineers? CS is essentially the study of automatic algorithmic processes that scale, so something along those lines.