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Computer scientists contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'
- throwaway05112 5y agoTLDR: 'The school website acknowledges that the term "decolonization" is ill-defined'
- chuckee 5y ago> 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!
- drost 5y agoAhh our brightest minds are finally solving the issues plaguing our society.