cprussin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_cryptosystem

I would claim that Computer Science is a term that is supposed to apply to any science directly interested in computation. I really see no point in that. Mathematicians are interested in algorithms and complexity and the like, software engineers/db engineers are concerned with databases and UIs. There are different programming languages for each purpose. I see no reason to insist on clumping them in the same group.

tl;dr: every study involving computation or programming doesn't need to be in the same department.

Come to Virginia Tech. Our entire linux/unix user's group is C crazy, we have a resume CD, and most of us are pretty intelligent people.