17 Nov
2016
17 Nov
'16
11:19 a.m.
I don't remember if the following has been mentioned on this list or not. If it is unlikely that a university course of study for computer science will be changed to include history, I wonder if some computing history could be done in informal intersession courses (e.g., http://web.mit.edu/IAP/) or through a lunch-hour seminar series. Also, in these days of on-line video courses, maybe one initial computing history course could be developed that is then available to students everywhere; no doubt such videos already exist. If there were a list of the good ones by topic, perhaps the professor for a particular technical course could refer the students to the relevant video in case the students want to watch it.