On 08/11/2019 10:40 AM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote:
It's funny how licensing bodies do not recognise computer
engineers. I am a member if the IEEE, but since I first
wrote to the local body in 1974 they have never recognised
computer engineering as a discipline. After twenty years
of chip-level troubleshooting on DEC machines I spent
twenty twenty-five years teaching college before retiring
to my soon-to-be-restored collection of old kit.
I ran into the then President of the provincial licensing
association at an alumni event a few years ago and he
laughed, saying they are still working on it!
Well, "computer engineering" isn't well-defined. For EE,
you can write loop and node equations and solve, and
determine exactly how an electrical network will behave.
They are trying to make systems that can analyze computer
programs in the same way, but I think we are pretty far from
that level of rigor.
Jon
