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From: jsnyder@june.cs.washington.edu (John Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: The history of CS
Message-ID: <4102@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 88 23:01:45 GMT
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Reply-To: jsnyder@uw-june.UUCP (John Snyder)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <990@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> lewis@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Bil Lewis) writes:
>  One thing which I have missed in my education is any sense of
>history. ...
>  In this day and age of video, I would expect to see some of what I
>want in an easily digested form.  ...
>
>Q2:  Would YOU like to see such things?  Would you take class time to show
>a film on history?

I would very much like to see such things.  CS really needs to develop
a sense of history (not to mention a philosophical underpinning).
Actually, truthful videos could be embarrassing -- they could show
how often we reinvent the wheel in CS.

jsnyder@june.cs.washington.edu              John R. Snyder
{ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!uw-beaver!jsnyder     Dept. of Computer Science, FR-35
                                            University of Washington
206/543-7798                                Seattle, WA 98195