[JadeNB]

> Firstly "computer" used to mean the people that did computations, so, that untethers computation from the material doing those computations.

But it is called computer science, who / whatever is doing the computation, not computation science, so I'm not sure that (either part of) your response applies.

Actually, I disagree with the grandparent (hence, I suppose, with Sterling) differently: I think that it's rather common to name sciences after gadgets, depending on how flexible you are about what is called 'science'. The first example that came to mind, just because I have a colleague who works on it, is cryo-electon microscopy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryo-electron_microscopy). It's fair to argue whether that's really a 'science' as opposed to just a 'technique', but I'm confident that there are other examples that are more clearly 'sciences'.