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Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns by vladTheInhaler on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:01PM (#27394970)
What would be a better term for it? Maybe "the mathematics of computation"?
Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns by giobox on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:20PM (#27395211)
Some UK institutions (including some pretty respected ones) adopted the term "School of Informatics" and confer Informatics degrees instead of using the term Computer Science.

I suspect the university marketing teams will eventually change this to Computer Science much like "Natural Philosophy" evolved into "Physics" at many places though...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics

https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics

Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns by waterfowl on Friday June 04, 2021 @01:14PM (#27395977)
KCL was Informatics and it was broadly classed w/ maths/'natural sciences' when I was there 10 years ago - according to a younger colleague they have since rebranded to CS.
Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns by onorton on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:26PM (#27395284)
In the UK, the A level I took was called "Computing". My university called it that as well and treated it as an MEng rather than an MSc, but most UK universities still call it Computer Science I think.
Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns by havocsupreme on Friday June 04, 2021 @11:17PM (#27401791)
Algorithmic Engineers? CS is essentially the study of automatic algorithmic processes that scale, so something along those lines.