The Major in Computer Science integrates the MSc degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering (MEIC), aiming to provide students with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and the practical techniques essential to formulating suitable abstractions for modeling complex systems, designing efficient algorithmic solutions, and creating robust implementations and applications.

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"A confusion of even longer standing came from the fact that the unprepared included the electronic engineers that were supposed to design, build, and maintain the machines. The job was actually beyond the electronic technology of the day, and, as a result, the question of how to get and keep the physical equipment more or less in working condition became in the early days the all-overriding concern. As a result, the topic became -- primarily in the USA -- prematurely known as "computer science" -- which, actually is like referring to surgery as "knife science" -- and it was firmly implanted in people's minds that computing science is about machines and their peripheral equipment. Quod non."

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, quoted from EWD 924: On a cultural gap, published as The Mathematical Intelligencer 8 (1986), 1:48-52.

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