Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Ways of Thinking in Informatics. |
| Authors: |
FRAUENBERGER, CHRISTOPHER1 christopher.frauenberger@tuwien.ac.at, PURGATHOFER, PETER2 peter.purgathofer@tuwien.ac.at |
| Source: |
Communications of the ACM. Jul2019, Vol. 62 Issue 7, p58-64. 7p. 1 Color Photograph. |
| Subjects: |
Information science -- Social aspects, Thought & thinking, Computer science, Technical institutes, Values (Ethics), Cryptography, College curriculum |
| Geographic Terms: |
Vienna (Austria) |
| Abstract: |
The article discusses various changes involving informatics and computer science (CS) as of 2019, and it mentions the entry-level "Ways of Thinking in Informatics" course which is being offered at the TU Wien, Austria technical university. Moral discourse and social interventions are addressed, along with the "Values in Computing" workshop and the future of technology. The social aspects of CS are assessed, as well as cryptography and complexity theory. |
| Database: |
Engineering Source |
