[stillsut]

The article fails to mention Vick the Video Game programmer and Saul the security researcher.

Hackers and game developers are some of the best programmers in the world, just because there's no academic departments for these, this author would probably dismiss them as not doing real computing. But they are doing real computing, focusing on areas where the application of computers has the most impact in real life. So if "real" computing is different from "in real life" computing, so be it, I'll take the latter.

[Coding_Cat]

It's a shame the article missed them, but while they may not be as prevalent security and game programing do have their own academic departments these days. Often times they are placed under the "CS department", but that is to be expected. Astronomy, theoretical physics, soft-matter and applied physics all share the same department as well.

Computational Science is a bit of an outsider I have noticed though. It varies by university whether it is math, physics, computer or general science. Probably because it occupies the cross-roads between these.