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)
https://www.di.uoa.gr/en/studies/undergraduate/411¨
Hi everyone,
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.
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.
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?
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Aristotle Tympas
Professor, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
Vice-Chair, Department of History and Philosophy
of Science
Director, Interdepartmental Graduate Program 'Science,
Technology, Society / Science and Technology Studies
(STS)'
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