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Date Posted: Tuesday September 26, 2000 12:09:40 PM
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Re: The Nature of Engineering, the Science of Humanities, and Godel's Theorem
(Ubiquity, August 29, 2000)

I was pleased to read Dr. Wulf's remarks on the desirability of greater interpenetration between the Humanities and engineering in education.

See the full text at

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/reader_comments/comments_v1_issue30.html

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ktempleton
Date Posted: Monday October 02, 2000 02:15:27 PM
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Concern with the Humanites in the field of Technology goes back to its beginning. Norbert Weiner, one of the founding fathers of the field, wrote a book on the relationship between Computer Technology and society entitled "The Human Use of Human Beings." A half century old, it should still be required reading in CS.

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epepke
Date Posted: Tuesday October 31, 2000 03:38:05 PM
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I enjoyed Kirk Templeton's comments and wish him luck with the facility he is attempting to build. I agree that Feynman's genius was related to his drumming and his art and also to another bodily activity for which he was famous.

However, when I think back to my undergraduate days, humanities courses were reqiured for students in the sciences, whereas students of the humanities were allowed to graduate with little or no exposure to science and technology. It seems to me that increasing the amount of exposure to the humanities for those who study technology will only make them more capable and powerful, while those who study humantites will be rather weaker, thus leading to a greater separation in society between those who can and those who cannot.

Personally, I have no problem with this. However, many other people express more egalitarian attitudes, such as the concern for the digital divide and a desire to attract more females to the profession. I view such Procrusteanism with suspicion, but many people like it. I wonder how they would react to this, or whether they have thought out the implications.{XxF H ìQo"whoô H (,pxF H äÖÍ ¿ ¿apab% H  ¿ ¿xF H ìQoriteT H h, xF H ìQoreat¿ H ¿,¸xF H ìQobn a´ H ¨,ÐxF H ìQojaveä H È,èxF H ìQoreopH yFH ìQo"i è,yF [ !¥ )­0Ç50yFìQo,HyFìQo(,`yFìQoH,xyFìQoh, |þH ¿þH |þH ð v ÿÿÿÿ`/ d/ `/ v (¶¿ ,¶¿ (¶¿ ¿¿¿ Øe­ ¬¿ Øe­ °¿ ÎÇ ´¿ ÎÇ ¸¿  Ç  Ç  Ç Ð¿ ¿þH  þH ¿þH P72 ÿÿÿÿÿf ÿf ÿf `72 `½x d½x `½x àDE 0 4V¿ 0 8V¿ ú; Email: acmhelp@acm.org.
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