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Ridgewood NJ, the history of computer science dates back to the 19th century, but it wasn’t until the 1960s that the field became an established academic discipline. On June 7, 1965, the first two Ph.D. graduates in computer science in the United States earned their degrees—Irving Tang of Washington University in St. Louis and Sister Mary Kenneth Keller of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.