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Re:The Day the Purpose of College Changed by voidlogic on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:37PM (#8963289)
Astronomy is the study of the heavens, not the study of telescopes, although they may be an important tool.

Likewise Computer Science is not the study of programming or computers, it is the study of data and computing. Programming is just often the tool for the job.

Some European Computer Science departments actually call themselves Dataology departments...

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Re:The Day the Purpose of College Changed by thissideup on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @08:40PM (#8963836)
Right but astronomy isn't called telescope science either. Whereas computer science is.
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Re:The Day the Purpose of College Changed by barry-cotter on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:34AM (#8964514)
No they don't, they call themselves Informatics departments.
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