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SUMMARY:Computer Science Way of Thinking in Human History  and Consequence
 s for the Design of Computer Science Curricula
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Juraj Hromkovic is professor of Information Technology and Edu
 cation at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich since January 2
 004. Before he was professor at Comenius University\, Bratislava\, Univers
 ity of Paderborn\, CAU Kiel and RWTH Aachen. In 2001\, he was elected memb
 er of the Slovak Academic Society. Since 2010\, he is member of Academia E
 uropaea. 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 info
 rmatics education\, algorithmics for hard problems\, complexity theory wit
 h special emphasis on the relationship between determinsm\, randomness\, a
 nd 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 E
 TH devoted to the education of computer science teachers .\nTeaching compu
 ter 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\, scie
 nce and technology. This helps not only to recognize that the computer sci
 ence way of thinking was a crucial part for the development of human socie
 ty since anyone can remember\, but it helps to make a good choice of topic
 s 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 contribution
 s in the very general framework of education.\n 
LOCATION:DIA 004 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=DIA004
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