The Computing, Culture & Society certificate prepares students to understand the social, political, and historical implications of computing technology. There are a variety of world-class courses around the university that situate computing within these broader cultural contexts, but they are spread across a dozen departments. This certificate is a pedagogical roadmap to those courses, both for computer science (CS) and other majors who want to study the cultural and humanistic implications of computing.
News & Events
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Article: Teaching the History of Computing across Asia/America:
Oh argues for a more integrated approach by examining the cross-Pacific, bi-directional flows of people, technologies, machines, and intangible assets
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Talk: Computing Power
Artificial intelligence is being explicitly deployed as an instrument of geopolitical dominance.
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Guest Lecture: Interrupting Merit, Subverting Legibility: Navigating Caste In ‘Casteless’ Worlds of Computing
Dr. Palashi Vaghela from University of California, San Diego will give this guest lecture on March 6th, 11:35am–12:50pm at GR109.
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Talk: Black Virtuality
Blackness is always mediated—by the state, by history, by the white gaze. In virtual spaces, this mediation extends to the algorithms.
