"The shaded portion represents the Computer Science discipline. Computer science covers most of the vertical space between the extreme top and extreme bottom because computer scientists generally do not deal with just the hardware that runs software, or just the organization that makes use of the information that computing can provide. As a group, computer scientists care about almost everything in between those areas (down as far as the software that enables devices to work and up as far as the information systems that help organizations to operate). They design and develop all types of software from systems infrastructure (operating systems, communications programs, etc.) to application technologies (web browsers, databases, search engines, etc.) Computer scientists create these capabilities, but they do not manage the deployment of them. Therefore, the shaded area for computer science narrows and then stops as we move to the right. This is because computer scientists do not help people to select computing products, or tailor products to organizational needs, or learn to use such products."

information and graph from acm.org Computing Curricula 2005

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