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

theregister.com

5 points by ju_sh · 3 comments

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chuckee

> 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

Ahh our brightest minds are finally solving the issues plaguing our society.

throwaway05112

TLDR: 'The school website acknowledges that the term "decolonization" is ill-defined'

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