I agree about the unsuitability of terms like "computer science". I'm a professor of computer science. I'd rather be a "professor of informatics", but C.S. is t

I agree about the unsuitability of terms like "computer science". I'm a professor of computer science. I'd rather be a "professor of informatics", but C.S. is the term we're stuck with. And after all, it isn't really that bad; the main downside is that people I meet at parties think my job is teaching people to use MS-Word. (I used to be a professor of mathematics; the misconceptions about that one are scary.) In any case, I'd like to point out that this use of "science", while not in accord with the most common usage of the term, is not actually dishonest. Rather, it harkens back to an older use of "science" as a more general term for knowledge related to some field of study.[1] [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/science https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/science - see English noun definitions 1 & 2.