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Who Invented Computer Science—and Was It Ever a Trade?
Computer science was founded as a science of computation—Newell, Perlis, and Simon argued in 1967 that "the phenomena surrounding computers are varied, complex, rich." Yet the degree became the software industry's default credential, and the fight over tool users versus tool builders has run through every curriculum revision since 1968. This episode traces the field's origins: the first departments at Purdue and Stanford, the 1965 doctorates history forgot (including Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the first woman to earn a CS Ph.D.), and what the halting problem reveals about studying a world we…
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