Exactly. Algorithms are simply ways of approaching and solving a problem, and the ability to devise clever ones is portable between disciplines. At my college

Exactly. Algorithms are simply ways of approaching and solving a problem, and the ability to devise clever ones is portable between disciplines. At my college, several professors in the CS department hadn't programmed anything since the '70s. The balkanization of science and liberarl arts is probably the worst thing about university education today. The unwillingness of either to import valuable concepts from the other ends up hurting both.