Dear Martin I'm afraid you are not right (very rare in my experience!). According to Birkbeck's Annual Report the College's department of Numerical Automation was renamed as the Department of Computer Science at the start of the 1963/4 Academic Session. Good wishes Roger Johnson -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Martin Campbell-Kelly Sent: 01 July 2013 15:44 To: members@sigcis.org Cc: 'David Brailsford' Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Origin of "Computer Science" 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 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members