[haywirez]

Can you elaborate (more) what would be required to "fill the gap" to an 80% sufficient extent? Perhaps a list of links / topics / keywords that should be checked out and read about? Perhaps it's possible to get up to speed with ~6 months of self-study...

[leovonl]

Usually anything that deals with theory of computation, formal languages, formal methods, compilers, graph theory, functional programming, logic programming.

I assume numerical analysis, probability and even assembly are subjects most people from engineering would already have some familiarity with.

More specific subjects include relational algebra (for relational databases) and AI concepts like neural nets.