<div dir="ltr">Here is a bit from some research I did a while back to answer a related question.  Perhaps this may be of help. Sorry for the wonky cut-and-paste.  -- Ian <div><br></div><div><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt">

Per an account by Donald Knuth<a href="file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">[1]</a>,

<span style="background-repeat:initial initial">in 1961 George Forsythe at Stanford University was using that

term and promoting such a department at Stanford.  Louis Fein had evidently been speaking of the

concept as early as 1957<a href="file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">[2]</span></span></span></a> but

Forsythe brought it to public view, in Knuth’s opinion.  </span></p>

<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">In an oral history with Albert Bowker of Stanford<a href="file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">[3]</span></span></span></a> he

relates discussions in 1956 about the formation of a computer science program.

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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><a href="file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt"><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Donald E. Knuth. 1972. George

Forsythe and the development of computer science. Commun. ACM 15,

8 (August 1972), 721-726. </span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>

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<p class=""><a href="file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt"><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt"> Ibid. p. 722.  </span></p>

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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><a href="file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt"><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Albert H. Bowker, OH 6. Oral

history interview by Pamela McCorduck, 21 May 1979, Berkeley, Calif. Charles

Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

<a href="http://purl.umn.edu/107140">http://purl.umn.edu/107140</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>

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</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Martin Campbell-Kelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.campbell-kelly@warwick.ac.uk" target="_blank">m.campbell-kelly@warwick.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I’m trying to find when the term “computer science” came into general use. The term “software” seems to be quite accurately dated as appearing in 1960 in several contemporary publications, but I have found nothing similar for computer science.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Martin<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>

<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#943634">—</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">

<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#943634">Martin Campbell-Kelly, Dept of Computer Science<br>University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.<br>voice: <a href="tel:%2B44%2024%207652%203193" value="+442476523193" target="_blank">+44 24 7652 3193</a> fax: <a href="tel:%2B44%2024%207657%203024" value="+442476573024" target="_blank">+44 24 7657 3024</a><br>

email: </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#943634"><a href="mailto:M.Campbell-Kelly@warwick.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#943634">M.Campbell-Kelly@warwick.ac.uk </span></a></span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>

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