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Sustainability and computing’s heart of prostitution
The reason for educating about Sustainability in Computing has never been stronger nor more urgent. Dr Logan Muller has extensive experience in computing for sustainability. He developed NZ’s first commercial backbone, primarily as a means for supporting regional development. Over the last few years he has been active internationally (see Peruvian Poverty Elimination Project, he […]
An Agenda for Computing Education for Sustainability
July 5, 2007
Pulling things together: here is a draft agenda for developing effective Computing Education for Sustainability (CEfS). 1. Work with the wider computing community to envisage and articulate a role for computing and computing professionals in a sustainable future. 2. Work with the wider computing community to articulate a discipline response to sustainability. This may take […]
Environment hardly features in dying discipline
July 3, 2007
In discussions on the British Computer Society, McBride questions whether computer science is a dying discipline (a subsequent outcry refutes this, see Mander, but McBride’s points are still valid). McBride sees relevance of Computer Science courses as the major problem, in essence he says the training is CS but the jobs are IT: “the gap […]
Computing for Sustainability: Low hanging curricula
July 2, 2007
In Sustainability a “Pervasive Theme” or MIC (”Missing In Curriculum”)? we looked for sustainability in the computing curricula but didn’t find any there. Clearly it should be (well we think so). If the high hanging fruit is paradigm change (ala Blevis), and medium hanging fruit is cross curricula integration (upscaling rethinking school lunch) and courses […]
Sustainability in computing’s Code of Ethics?
July 1, 2007
Q: Is sustainability described in computing’s code of ethics? A: Not explicitly. The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (1992) identifies the “commitment to ethical conduct expected of every member”. It consists of “24 imperatives formulated as statements of personal responsibility”. It is argued in the preamble to the code that not every issue […]
Computing for Sustainability 
July 11, 2007
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