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The beginning of this lecture (30 seconds in) by Harold Abelson (author of SICP - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) explains why Computer Science is a terrible name here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...

Not sure about the year.

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That lecture (from 2005) is how I first came across this idea of computer science not being about computers. It was interesting (though not massively surprising) to discover that similar arguments have been made for several decades earlier.

That video lecture is from 1986.

Thanks, I stand corrected. Part of me did think 2005 would have been a bit too recent.

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