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Our House Is On Fire: The Climate Emergency and Computing’s Responsibility

We will most likely never do better than a best guess at computing’s carbon footprint, but given uncertainties it would be safer and more responsible to act on the assumption that higher estimates could be closer to the truth—especially since the pace of warming has exceeded our expectations at every point. But in big-picture terms, the difference between 1.8% and 3.9% does not fundamentally change our mission: computing’s emissions must be reduced urgently and drastically. How are we going to achieve this?

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Explorations in Cyber-Physical Systems Education

During the 2006–2007 academic year, a small group of educators from the University of California, Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department…met to discuss the creation of an undergraduate [“cyber-physical systems” (CPS)] curriculum. … A major challenge to this effort was the breadth of topics needed to cover the area. A further obstacle was trying to balance theoretical content with practical, lab-based coursework. From these discussions, however, emerged the basic contours of an undergraduate course, which developed over the next decade into a broader “expedition” in CPS education.

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