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Computer scientists contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'

5 pointsby ju_shover 3 years ago

3 comments

chuckeeover 3 years ago
&gt; A working group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has proposed a series of steps to &quot;decolonize&quot; the Informatics curriculum<p>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!
drostover 3 years ago
Ahh our brightest minds are finally solving the issues plaguing our society.
throwaway05112over 3 years ago
TLDR: &#x27;The school website acknowledges that the term &quot;decolonization&quot; is ill-defined&#x27;