Good morning, Belval! Third (and last) day of the #UndoneCS conference about the computer science research which was NOT done https://www.undonecs.org/2026/
Undone Computer Science 2026

2nd conference on Undone Science in Computer Science

Undone Computer Science 2026

I did not live-toot the first session of #UndoneCS because I was chairing.

Now, "Computer Science as a Humanities Discipline: Recovering the Humanistic Roots of Computation" by Michael Piotrowski @mxp

"Computing was not invented by computer scientists"

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Computer science is not just about mathematics and numbers: it has also roots in humanities. Humanities are more than just a nice addon for computing .

"Computing was not invented by aliens but by humans. At least, some entities in the Silicon Valley are human."

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"Generative AI for programming? The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Reloaded, big times"

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"Computer science first, social sciences second: A critical sociological account of Computational Social Science" by Chung-Hong Chan

(If I'm correct, second mention of Marx at Undone CS.)

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"What is Cryptography Hiding from Itself?" by Nikolas Melissaris

How ChatControl (and CSS in general) was not seriously studied before. There is never real research in security mandates.

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"Undone Codes: Ethics in the ACM 1966-1992" by Jacob Bruggeman and Megan Finn

"minimize the data collected" was already in ACM code of conduct in 1962!

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"Undone Canadian CS Ethics: Real-world Moral Dilemmas and Responsibilities" by Mohamed Abdalla

Students in CS claim they are concerned by ethical issues about their job. But their actions are not always consistent with that stance.

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The session of #UndoneCS about ethics makes me think of the wonderful "First among sequels" novel (in the Thursday Next series, when she travels aboard the ship "Moral Dilemma").

"The indirect rebound effects of AI as undone science: philosophical reflection on two structural causes" by Damien Lacroux

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"Cultivating a Historicist Sensibility through Permacomputing" by Nils Bonfils

"Overdone" computer science (AI, cloud, big data…), as opposed to Undone :-)

Basic idea of historicism: do not assume that there is just one straight line, going to more progress.

First mention of Plan 9 at the conference :-)

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Was Plan 9 a failure? And IRC? And Forth?

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Et Haiku, @mmu_man ? :-)
@bortzmeyer ça me rappelle une conférence qu'on avait eu… avec un nom genre "the queer factor" : en gros, c'est pas grave de pas avoir détrôné Windows, on fait ce qu'on veut.

@bortzmeyer Everybody uses IRC :)

(It's used by Twitch for its chat)

@shaft I agree that it is quite different from the cases of Plan 9 and Forth.
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@shaft Forth was very popular in the astronomy / particle physics world.
@bortzmeyer Strange worlds indeed :)
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Definitely not! I hope that it was clear that those are not failures at all 😅