Computer Science Way of Thinking in Human History and Consequences for the Design of Computer Science Curricula
Event details
| Date | 15.09.2017 |
| Hour | 14:15 › 15:15 |
| Speaker | Juraj Hromkovic is professor of Information Technology and Education at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich since January 2004. Before he was professor at Comenius University, Bratislava, University of Paderborn, CAU Kiel and RWTH Aachen. In 2001, he was elected member of the Slovak Academic Society. Since 2010, he is member of Academia Europaea. In 2015, he was honored by the Slovak state award Goodwill Envoy. In 2017, he got the Pribina Cross of the first order from the President of the Slovak Republic. His research and teaching interests focus on informatics education, algorithmics for hard problems, complexity theory with special emphasis on the relationship between determinsm, randomness, and nondeterminism. In order to introduce the subject informatics to the school education, he founded the Centre for Computer Science Education in 2005. He is responsible for the master program Lehrdiplom Informatik at ETH devoted to the education of computer science teachers . |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Teaching computer science offers more than algorithmic thinking (or more general and as recently presented: Computational thinking). To understand this claim one has to have a more careful look at the development of human culture, science and technology. This helps not only to recognize that the computer science way of thinking was a crucial part for the development of human society since anyone can remember, but it helps to make a good choice of topics for sustainable computer science education in the context of science and humanities. This leads to the creation of textbooks that do not focus on particular knowledge for specialists only, but offer serious contributions in the very general framework of education.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- CHILI Lab