
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

</head>

<body>

<p>A course on the history of computing that I have been teaching for

almost two decades at the informatics department of the University of

Athens, Greece (the current president of ACM comes from this

department)</p>

<p>https://www.di.uoa.gr/en/studies/undergraduate/411¨</p>

<p> </p>

<p> </p>

<!-- begin sanitized html -->

<div class="bodyclass">

<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I've been teaching a special topics course in computer history for

three semesters here at NJIT. The university policy is three semesters

maximum, then the course must be made permanent or cancelled. So I'm going

through the process of trying to make it permanent.</p>

<p>The department administration supports it, but it has to be voted on by

the rank-and-file faculty, many of whom don't seem to understand the value

of a history course -- or at least not of a history course in a technical

department, rather than through our humanities college.</p>

<p>It would help if I can show them other examples. Can anyone point me

existing examples of history courses in CS, EE, or other technical

departments at U.S. universities?</p>

<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>Evan Koblentz

<p>New Jersey Institute of Technology<br> - Senior Writer, Office of

Strategic Communications<br> - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of

Computing<br> - Faculty/Staff Advisor, NJIT Lego Club</p>

<p><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" title="This external link will open

in a new window" href="mailto:evank@njit.edu"

target="_blank">evank@njit.edu</a><br> (973) 596-3065<br> <a

class="moz-txt-link-freetext" title="This external link will open in a new

window" href="https://web.njit.edu/~evank/"

target="_blank">https://web.njit.edu/~evank</a></p>

</div>

</div>

<!-- end sanitized html -->

<p><br><br>-- <br>Aristotle Tympas<br>Professor, National and Kapodistrian

University of Athens<br>Vice-Chair, Department of History and Philosophy

of Science<br>Director, Interdepartmental Graduate Program 'Science,

Technology, Society / Science and Technology Studies

(STS)'<br><br>Webpage: http://scholar.uoa.gr/tympas/home<br>Email:

tympas@phs.uoa.gr<br>Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86003468724?pwd=RzJxb2RYUmRrc2JIY2VlRkpjekJGZz09</p>

</body>

</html>