Agreed that finding more synergies (pardon my business-speak) between computing and the liberal arts can be wonderful. Reminds me a bit of Computing for Poets:
http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/~mleblanc/131/ On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:16 AM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I was telling my younger daughter during the ride to school today > (she's a senior in high school, though already 20% professor and 22% > your boss), a huge missed opportunity (so far) is the hybrid of > theater and computer science. > > My older step daughter majored - minored in something like that, but > the college wasn't really doing the work to marry the two, she was. > > Like with television, the computer comes with a "back stage" where we > craft a user experience (e.g. web site) -- like museum exhibit design > (interactive), like department store design (people behind counters, > customer service, help desk).** > > The code is about animating agents and actors (how the systems people > talk). In popular culture, this way of thinking was vastly aided and > abetted by 'The Matrix', wherein the idea was we live inside a > computer program built for us by computer viruses of extraterrestrial > origin. > > Anyway, I think as the media continue to cross-fertilize, we'll be > getting back to theater more and more, as a core institution in both > east and west, and as a logical partner for the CS department / > compartment / pod. > > Kirby > > ** museum exhibit design: http://samgreen.to/blog/ > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >
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