[SIGCIS-Members] history of history of computing courses

Mon Jan 29 08:16:53 PST 2018

I taught my first history of computing course at Harvard in the spring of 1983. It was focused primarily on business history. I don’t think I have records from it. 

You might also want to look at the report of a workshop that CRA organized and that Atsushi Akera and I edited. You can find it under the resources tab on the CRA website.

Bill Aspray 

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> On Jan 29, 2018, at 9:08 AM, Jennifer S Light <jslight at mit.edu> wrote:
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> Syllabi from some of Mike Mahoney's classes (going back to the late 1990s) can be found at https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/
> Jen
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> Jennifer S. Light
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> Peter Denning has been involved in studies of CS curricula, at great length.  There are ACM reports.
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> On January 29, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Janet Abbate <abbate at vt.edu> wrote:
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> J.A.N. Lee was teaching history of computing fairly early at Virginia Tech. He included history as part of a “professionalism” course for CS undergraduates that also had a heavy dose of ethics. See website: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/CWRU.html
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> Also, he has a website last updated in 1998 (http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/courses.html) that lists these courses at various universities:
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>  *   University of Warwick<http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/pub/> CS330: History of Computing
>  *   University of Calgary<http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Courses/509/>, CPSC 509
>  *   American University<http://www.cas.american.edu/courses/syllabi/6455001s98.html>, CSIS 64.550 History of Computing
>  *   Stanford University STS 161<http://www-leland.Stanford.edu:80/group/STS/161.html> -- History of Computers.
>  *   Virginia Tech<http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/history/class.html>, CS 3604 Professionalism in Computing (contains a section on history).  [J.A.N.’s own course]
>  *   Rhodes College<http://colossus.mathcs.rhodes.edu/~stuart/cs465.hist/syllabus/syllabus.html>, CS 465: Topics in Computer Science Computer History
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> I doubt the links are still working, but you could probably track down some of the instructors.
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> best,
> Janet
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> On Jan 28, 2018, at 10:11 PM, Chris Leslie <chrisleslienyc at hotmail.com<mailto:chrisleslienyc at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> I am working on an article and I would like to learn about history of computing classes, particularly at the undergraduate level. Does anyone have details on when and where these kinds of courses were first offered? Are there any that are particularly well-known for whatever reason?
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> If you have a syllabus from a particular course, especially before 2005, I would greatly appreciate a copy.
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> On- or off-list replies are welcome.
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> Chris Leslie
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