Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'

Posted by bob on Oct 16, 2021 11:29 PM EDT
The Register; By Thomas Claburn
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Academics advised to consider excluding certain terminology for the sake of inclusivity. A working group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has proposed a series of steps to "decolonize" the Informatics curriculum, which includes trying "to avoid using predominantly Western names such as Alice/Bob (as is common in the computer security literature)."…

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