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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Excuse me if I missed an earlier email but the British Computer Society has published criteria on curriculum content which it applies when accrediting courses.
See <a href="http://www.bcs.org">www.bcs.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Roger Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pierre Mounier<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05 October 2012 16:43<br>
<b>To:</b> Janet Abbate<br>
<b>Cc:</b> sigcis<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Computer Science in Higher Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hello Janet,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
<span class="apple-style-span">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. </span><br>
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<span class="apple-style-span">Regarding a session at next year's SHOT/ SIGCIS, in addition to Ulf Hashagen and Irina Nikiforova, you might contact these German authors:
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">- Reuse, B. & Vollmar, R. (ed.) :
<i>Informatikforschung in Deutschland</i>. Springer, 2008</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">- Pieper, C.:
<i>Hochschulinformatik in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR bis 1989/1990</i>. Steiner, 2009
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">- Wolfgang Coy: “Was ist Informatik? Zur Entstehung des Faches an den deutschen Universitäten”. In: Hellige, H.-D. (ed.):
<i>Geschichten der Informatik</i>, Springer, 2004, 473-497. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">[a title which predated "<i>Histories of Computing</i>"!]</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">There is also a growing scholarship in Italy, yet they are still much concerned with hardware development or business history.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">All the best,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span>Pierre <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Le 5 oct. 12 à 15:52, Janet Abbate a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hello Pierre,<br>
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. <br>
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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. <br>
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best regards,<br>
Janet<br>
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Dr. Janet Abbate<br>
Associate Professor <br>
Science & Technology in Society<br>
Virginia Tech<br>
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On Oct 5, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Pierre Mounier wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is just to inform SIGCIS members, particularly those working on Computer Science in Higher Education, of a paper about to appear :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Computer Science in French Universities: Early Entrants and Latecomers"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.infoculturejournal.org/current_issue/47.4">http://www.infoculturejournal.org/current_issue/47.4</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This paper stems from my book *, but goes further to define models of development in an international comparaison perspective.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With cordial salutations, looking forward to meet some of you in Copenhagen,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* <a href="http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/pages/aff_livre.php?Id=838">
http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/pages/aff_livre.php?Id=838</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.koyre.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/CV-Mounier-Kuhn_1_.pdf">http://www.koyre.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/CV-Mounier-Kuhn_1_.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstract - MOUNIER-KUHN Pierre, 2012, "Computer Science in French Universities: Early Entrants and Latecomers", Information & Culture: A Journal of History, vol. 47, n° 4. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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