Interesting perspective. My thought is that CS is what we call what those researchers do to differentiate it from what the users do. Creating a new tool throug

Interesting perspective. My thought is that CS is what we call what those researchers do to differentiate it from what the users do. Creating a new tool through the scientific method would be the science, whereas implementing a system or product would be the 'software engineering' - the application of the science. I don't have a good basket term for both research and application, but I'd probably go for something like 'Computing'. This could be applied to any engineering field as well, it's just a matter of naming practices. I'd be happy to admit that 'electrical engineering science' existed (though the name is horrible) to refer to the research in electrical engineering.