1 Jul
2013
1 Jul
'13
10:44 a.m.
Dear Friends, Thanks so much for your responses to my query. My conclusion is that one cannot usefully point to a unique person or place where the term 'computer science' was coined (unlike John Tukey's invention of "bit" in 1947), but that it was a widely accepted usage by 1961. Interestingly, the first department with that name in the UK was at Manchester University in 1965. This confirms my long-held hypothesis that at that time the UK followed US trends delayed by 3 or 4 years. Regards, Martin - Martin Campbell-Kelly, Dept of Computer Science University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K. voice: +44 24 7652 3193 fax: +44 24 7657 3024 email: M.Campbell-Kelly@warwick.ac.uk