“Computer scientist” is something that has been thrust onto the public, much like “fake news” has in the last few days.
We are all familiar with computer science, have known majors in that field, never regarded them as scientists. I did look up “computer scientist” on Wikipedia, where it was supposedly hashed over; did not read it. It is a stretch. Scientists and mathematicians use computers, like anyone else, as a tool. Therefore, there is bound to exist, somewhere, a hammer scientist.
All the computer science majors I know are programmers, not IT security experts.
A computer scientist is someone working at the silicon level to develop ever more dense supercomputers, solve cooling issues, etc...
I studied computer architecture to get into microprocessor design.
If lawyers are involved, you can be sure their “prominent” Computer Scientists have at least once used a calculator to add 3 or more numbers.