Computer history on the move

Graham Farr; Barbara Ainsworth; Chris Avram; Judy Sheard

doi:10.1145/2839509.2844575

Computer history on the move

Graham Farr
, Barbara Ainsworth
, Chris Avram
, Judy Sheard

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review

1 Citation (Scopus)

Abstract

Computer history tours are a new way to educate people about our discipline and its history. We describe the introduction of such tours and their use in curriculum enrichment, outreach, and academic community-building. These tours give historical and social context to the development of topics in the curriculum, and demonstrate to students the universality of some of the principles they learn. The city of Melbourne, Australia, serves as an illustration, but computer history tours can be run in many cities of various sizes, and we give advice on how to do this.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2016)
Subtitle of host publication	March 2-5, 2016, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Editors	Steve Edwards, Michael Caspersen
Place of Publication	New York, New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	528-533
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450338561
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2839509.2844575
Publication status	Published - 17 Feb 2016
Event	ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2016 - Memphis, United States of America Duration: 2 Mar 2016 → 5 Mar 2016 Conference number: 47th http://sigcse2016.sigcse.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2839509 (Proceedings)

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Conference	ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2016
Abbreviated title	SIGCSE 2016
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Memphis
Period	2/03/16 → 5/03/16
Internet address	http://sigcse2016.sigcse.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2839509 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Computer history
Computer museum
Computer Science education
Computer tour
Outreach

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Farr, G, Ainsworth, B, Avram, C & Sheard, J 2016, Computer history on the move. in S Edwards & M Caspersen (eds), Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2016): March 2-5, 2016, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, New York, pp. 528-533, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2016, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, 2/03/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2839509.2844575

Computer history on the move. / Farr, Graham; Ainsworth, Barbara; Avram, Chris et al.
Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2016): March 2-5, 2016, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. ed. / Steve Edwards; Michael Caspersen . New York, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. p. 528-533.

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