• We are glad to announce the full programme for Undone Computer Science 2026 at https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html. It will include a panel session on:

*The Politics of Computer Science: margins and centres*

taking place on Monday afternoon, March 23rd, and chaired by Tone Walford (University College London). The full list of panelists and more details on the topic can be found in the conference programme above.

Come join us in Luxembourg on March 23-25 to discuss ethical and epistemological aspects of computer science!

• In-person registration has to be completed on the day before the conference at the latest, but please register preferably before *March 16th*: https://www.undonecs.org/2026/registration.html.

• Online attendance is also possible, but *requires registering* (for free) at the same URL.

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We are happy to announce the accepted extended abstracts at Undone CS 2026, now available on the programme: https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html.

Conference: March 23-25 in Luxembourg.
Registrations: https://www.undonecs.org/2026/registration.html until mid-March (early bird until Feb. 16th).

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I think this is the first time I used #Typst “in production,” namely to produce the final version of my three-page abstract for #UndoneCS.

#TeXLaTeX needs 4.81 s to produce a PDF. Well, this is with XeTeX; it’s recommended that you use LuaTeX now, so make this 6.44 s.

Typst needs 1.18 s (M1 MacBook Air, otherwise identical #Pandoc pipeline).

I’m more motivated than ever to add Typst support to my little pandoc-lecturenotes package, so that I can start the new semester without LaTeX!

Registration is now open! Join us for Undone Computer Science 2026, March 23-25 in Luxembourg:

Registration and travel information: https://www.undonecs.org/2026/registration.html

Early-bird registration until February 16th (closes mid-March).

Programme: https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html

Reaching out to computer scientists from all areas, but also to scholars for whom computer science is an object of study (social scientists, philosophers and historians of science, legal scholars, etc.), who may be interested in discussing the epistemological and ethical aspects of our field. Boosts welcome!

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Yay, I’ll go to @undonecs!

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What happens when the beliefs within two branches of computer science conflict?

Marie-Claude Gaudel tells the story of software testing based on program specifications, which was initially poorly received by both software engineering and formal verification.

Marie-Claude Gaudel — Software Testing and Formal Specification, a turbulent history

https://mediaserver.univ-nantes.fr/permalink/v1268b516e3468x1ma1r/iframe/

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What does computer science do to other research domains?

@patricoferris and his colleagues from the University of Cambridge investigate sources of methodological uncertainty in the data science pipeline for climate sciences.

Patrick Ferris et al. — Uncertainty at scale: how CS hinders climate research

https://mediaserver.univ-nantes.fr/permalink/v1268a8cf96fbej2iduq/iframe/

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At #undonecs we had amazing invited talks. I really recommend that you check out Ksenia Ermoshina's, on the concrete impact of censorship on networks:

https://fediscience.org/@undonecs/113095576213453871

Throwback to our second invited talk at #undonecs.

How does censorship impact users? Ksenia Ermoshina explains how censorship studies often overlook user experience, with the example of Russia's "Sovereign Runet". She demonstrates the difference between the technical data gathered using current methodologies, and actual human experience.

Ksenia Ermoshina — A censored user: how censorship studies ignore user experience

https://mediaserver.univ-nantes.fr/permalink/v1268a8cfbdf48wk7w9p/iframe/