Loren Terveen

CS 3803 (Serve Learn Sustain) - This was the first course I took at Georgia Tech which exposed me to human centered design and was the first time I was asked to consider whether something should be built at all. A truly amazing course!

CS 4641 (Machine Learning) - This course needs to deeply engage with the societal implications of ML and feminist critical data studies

CX 4220 (Intro High Performance Computing) - Engage with the historical roots of HPC in the military industrial context

CS 3630 (Intro Perception & Robotics) - I actually think this course did a good job discussing self-driving cars, but the course didn't discuss the extremely close relationship between robotics and the military industrial complex

CS 4510 (Automata and Complexity) - Once again, I think theory needs to be situated within the historical context (read: war) in which it arose

Jordan, thank you for a very important thread. I do have a question about your Algorithms and Theory comments. I absolutely understand the point about the context of their origin. I think what sometimes gets blurred is whether that turns out to be *incidental*...

or somehow affects the actual *content*. For example, is a particular algorithm, proof technique, or concept inherently "militaristic"? I sometimes hear people implying the latter, but have not come across a convincing case (I don't know that any such case ever is offered).

By the way, I'm not a theorist (at all), so have no emotional commitment to defending theoretical approaches in CS. I simply would like to understand the criticisms that are floating around at their best.