Is the phrase "Computing Science" only in use outside of the US, then?
It seems to be in common usage in Canada (it's what my alma mater called the department) and seemingly at least parts of the UK (as at the University of Glasgow), and is definitely used to mean what is meant by Computer Science in the US, as distinct from Computational Science.
I quickly typed Computing Science in Google, and got the following list:
University of Auckland
Victoria University of Wellington
University of Waikato
University of Alberta
Simon Fraser University
Toronto
CMU
University of Glasgow
Oxford
Stanford
Georgia Tech
Berkeley
Newcastle University
UT Austin
UCLA
University of Canterbury
University of Cambridge
Harvard
Caltech
Auckland University of Technology
Stony Brook
My location is probably pretty clear (New Zealand).While on some level it is useful to get a ranking weighted by places that are geographically relevant, it does mean that we will probably all have different lists.
Another pseudo-scientific source of CS school rankings is best paper awards at academic conferences. The list tightly matches the U.S. news rankings but not the Google rankings in the article.
PS: The linked article is misleading, as "PageRank" is only one of hundreds of signals Google uses for ranking. I originally thought the article's ranking uses the links between schools, but it doesn't. It would be more accurate to simply call it a Google search result ranking.
How exactly does PageRank correlate to any measure of quality for a school? I see no description of methodology other than "we typed it into Google." Why is a Google search ranking relevant?
Google no longer uses pagerank for thir rankings. They take into account many factors including your IP address, your location, etc so the ranking that the author sees is likely different from the ranking anyone else sees.
I agree, this is absolutely silly. I have been to the University of Cape Town's Computer Science page dozens of times. My alma mater is the best CS University in the world!
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 35.8 ms ] threadIt seems to be in common usage in Canada (it's what my alma mater called the department) and seemingly at least parts of the UK (as at the University of Glasgow), and is definitely used to mean what is meant by Computer Science in the US, as distinct from Computational Science.
University of Auckland
Victoria University of Wellington
University of Waikato
University of Alberta
Simon Fraser University
Toronto
CMU
University of Glasgow
Oxford
Stanford
Georgia Tech
Berkeley
Newcastle University
UT Austin
UCLA
University of Canterbury
University of Cambridge
Harvard
Caltech
Auckland University of Technology
Stony Brook
My location is probably pretty clear (New Zealand).While on some level it is useful to get a ranking weighted by places that are geographically relevant, it does mean that we will probably all have different lists.
1) Carnegie Mellon University
2) University of Washington
2) Stanford University
4) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5) University of California Berkeley
6) Cornell University
7) University of Toronto
8) University of Texas at Austin
8) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10) University of British Columbia
source: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html
PS: The linked article is misleading, as "PageRank" is only one of hundreds of signals Google uses for ranking. I originally thought the article's ranking uses the links between schools, but it doesn't. It would be more accurate to simply call it a Google search result ranking.
The author seems to himself not take this publication too seriously.
(Any other UMass Amherst CS Alums here?)