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 Per an account by Donald Knuth[1]<file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftn1>, 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[2]<file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftn2>but Forsythe brought it to public view, in Knuth’s opinion. In an oral history with Albert Bowker of Stanford[3]<file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftn3>he relates discussions in 1956 about the formation of a computer science program. ------------------------------ [1]<file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftnref1> Donald E. Knuth. 1972. George Forsythe and the development of computer science. *Commun. ACM* 15, 8 (August 1972), 721-726. [2]<file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftnref2>Ibid. p. 722. [3]<file:///C:/Users/iank/Downloads/Emergence%20of%20CS%20-%201-3-13.doc#_ftnref3> Albert H. Bowker, OH 6. Oral history interview by Pamela McCorduck, 21 May 1979, Berkeley, Calif. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107140 On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Martin Campbell-Kelly < m.campbell-kelly@warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
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.****
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