[SIGCIS-Members] Computer Science in Higher Education

[Jordi Fornes]

Hello Pierre and Janet,

Indeed it was the case in Spain.

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Jordi Fornes

El 05/10/2012 17:42, Pierre Mounier escribió:
> Hello  Janet,
> In turn, I am very interested to know about your project. The ACM 
> Curriculum '68, discussed in IFIP committees, contributed to 
> shape computer science curricula in France and certainly in other 
> countries.
>
> Regarding a session at next year's SHOT/ SIGCIS, in addition to Ulf 
> Hashagen and Irina Nikiforova, you might contact these German authors:
>
> - Reuse, B. & Vollmar, R. (ed.) : /Informatikforschung in 
> Deutschland/. Springer, 2008
>
> - Pieper, C.: /Hochschulinformatik in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR 
> bis 1989/1990/. Steiner, 2009
>
> - Wolfgang Coy: "Was ist Informatik? Zur Entstehung des Faches an den 
> deutschen Universitäten". In: Hellige, H.-D. (ed.): /Geschichten der 
> Informatik/, Springer, 2004, 473-497.
>
> [a title which predated "/Histories of Computing/"!]
>
> There is also a growing scholarship in Italy, yet they are still much 
> concerned with hardware development or business history.
> All the best,
> Pierre
>
>
> Le 5 oct. 12 à 15:52, Janet Abbate a écrit :
>
>> Hello Pierre,
>> I will be very interested to read your article. I am myself beginning 
>> a project on computer science in higher education, focusing initially 
>> on the ACM computer science Curriculum '68 and Curriculum '78 as 
>> efforts to define and standardize computer science in universities.
>>
>> Unfortunately I will not be at SHOT this year, but I would like to 
>> organize a session at next year's SHOT (either SIGCIS or the SHOT 
>> conference itself) on academic computer science. I will contact you 
>> in the spring after the call for papers comes out to ask if you might 
>> be interested in such a session. I believe there are several us 
>> working in this area (for example, Ulf Hashagen and Irina Nikiforova) 
>> and it would be useful to have a discussion of common themes--as well 
>> as culturally specific variants--in the development of university 
>> computer science.
>>
>> best regards,
>> Janet
>>
>>
>> Dr. Janet Abbate
>> Associate Professor
>> Science & Technology in Society
>> Virginia Tech
>>
>>
>> On Oct 5, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Pierre Mounier wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Friends & Colleagues,
>>>
>>> This is just to inform SIGCIS members, particularly those working on 
>>> Computer Science in Higher Education, of a paper about to appear :
>>>
>>> "Computer Science in French Universities: Early Entrants and Latecomers"
>>> http://www.infoculturejournal.org/current_issue/47.4
>>>
>>> This paper stems from my book *, but goes further to define models 
>>> of development in an international comparaison perspective.
>>>
>>> With cordial salutations, looking forward to meet some of you in 
>>> Copenhagen,
>>> Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
>>>
>>> CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne
>>> * http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/pages/aff_livre.php?Id=838
>>> http://www.koyre.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/CV-Mounier-Kuhn_1_.pdf
>>>
>>> Abstract - MOUNIER-KUHN Pierre, 2012, "Computer Science in French 
>>> Universities: Early Entrants and Latecomers", Information & Culture: 
>>> A Journal of History, vol. 47, n° 4.
>>>
>>> How do new disciplines develop in certain universities, not in 
>>> others ? What factors shape the geography of science ? The history 
>>> of computer science in French higher education suggests a model to 
>>> describe this development and differenciation process.
>>>
>>> Computer science stemmed from local configurations associating a 
>>> school of electrical engineering and a professor of numerical 
>>> analysis. In the early 1950s, a few professors, who may be 
>>> characterized as "science entrepreneurs", created three-fold 
>>> structures, associating courses in applied mathematics and 
>>> programming, a computing facility and a research laboratory. This 
>>> initiated a cumulative development process, attracting students, 
>>> researchers, contracts, funding and powerful machines, and opening 
>>> the field to novel applications or theoretical investigations. In 
>>> other universities, these configurations were not completed -- 
>>> typically, they were limited to an assistant and a small computer, 
>>> so that computing remained confined to technical training.
>>>
>>> In the 1960s, the pioneers became the leaders of the new informatics 
>>> field, hold power positions in learned societies and in science 
>>> policy committees, and controlled the definition of computer science 
>>> curricula. As the computing institutes they had created reached 
>>> considerable size, they began to spin off their junior professors 
>>> toward other universities, thus still increasing their « radiance ». 
>>> These centers, like Grenoble, Nancy or Toulouse, remain major 
>>> academic centers in the discipline today.
>>>
>>>
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