Re:Computer scientists contemplate courses without 'Alice' a...
by chuckee on Monday October 18, 2021 @06:45AM
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> A working group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has proposed a series of steps to "decolonize" the Informatics curriculum
I was not aware that computer science was developed by some other group, then colonized and taken over by Western countries. If so, I absolutely agree - the terms and names used in CS education should be reverted to accurately reflect the peoples that discovered them!
I was not aware that computer science was developed by some other group, then colonized and taken over by Western countries. If so, I absolutely agree - the terms and names used in CS education should be reverted to accurately reflect the peoples that discovered them!