Matt Welsh left Harvard to go to Google because he wanted more applied science/engineering and less paper research.
I think part of his frustration was that, at Harvard, even though Computer Science sits in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(!), it has never been formally split into Computer Science and Computer/Software Engineering.
Many years ago, Computer Science split out of Mathematics in the university taxonomy. The "Java Wars" of the 2000s and the "Facebook Wars" of the 2010s are a manifestation of the fact that Computer Science has grown too large and needs to split.
We have Applied Math that sits between (but overlaps with) Math on one side and Computer Science / Economics / Science on the other. It's completely appropriate for our modern age to have Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, and Engineering as overlapping fields with separate centers.
I think part of his frustration was that, at Harvard, even though Computer Science sits in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(!), it has never been formally split into Computer Science and Computer/Software Engineering.
Many years ago, Computer Science split out of Mathematics in the university taxonomy. The "Java Wars" of the 2000s and the "Facebook Wars" of the 2010s are a manifestation of the fact that Computer Science has grown too large and needs to split.
We have Applied Math that sits between (but overlaps with) Math on one side and Computer Science / Economics / Science on the other. It's completely appropriate for our modern age to have Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, and Engineering as overlapping fields with separate centers.