>>During the last twenty years I have noticed that corporate computer departments have changed names three times. Perhaps you can add to the list?
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>>1. IS – Information Services
>>2. IM – Information Management
>>3. IT – Information Technology
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>>I find that with each change of department name my salary does not increase. However, the “prestige” imparted by upper management by endowing us with a new name is somehow unwarranted. :)
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>Back home it also went through changes.
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>1. AOP - automatska obrada podataka - automatic processing of data
>2. EOP - elektronska obrada podataka - electronic processing of data
>3. ERC - elektronski raèunski centar - electronic calc center
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>The two companies I had founded back home have boosted the phrase "informatièki inženjering" (informatic engineering). The French name for CS - informatique - has caught lot of ground there, though I'm not sure the computer science is really a science, and that it means exactly the same as informatique. Also, "engineering" was used as a buzzword to mean "solution providing".

Dragan;

Using the terms "Science and Engineering" when relating to computers is something that bothers me. There is little agreement as to what to call any person working in the computer industry. Software Developer, Software Engineer, Programmer, Application Developer and the list goes on.

These terms seem like an attempt to justify and legitimize a discipline we cannot otherwise define. Why not use terms that are created for the computer phenomenon?

Software developers could be called “hackers”, dba’s “useless”, SQA = “complainer”, analysis’s = “nit pickers”, and so on. :)


Tom