Resumen
This article reports on conflicts between computer scientists and software engineers. A recent proposals to license software engineers have strained the uneasy tension between computer scientists and software engineers. Many computer scientists tend to believe certification is unnecessary and licensing would be harmful because it would lock in minimal standards in a changing field of rising standards. Frustrated, a growing number of software engineers want to split off from computer science and form their own academic departments and degree programs. According to the author, technologies and applications were changing too fast and unless they communicated and worked together, they could make no progress. The article suggests that separation between the theory and engineering has succeeded in other disciplines because they have matured to the point where they communicate well among their science, engineering, and applications branches.