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Gordon Davies Pull Quotes
Gordon Daviesis a retired member of the Faculty of Computing at the Open University, UK, where he led the development of one of the largest distance courses they had produced. He has spent much time volunteering and working for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and currently serves on the Committee of the BCS for Accreditation.
This webpage gives excerpts taken from the interview of Gordon Davies conducted on the 26th of June 2007 in Dundee, Scotland by Barbara Boucher Owens The entire interview and transcript are also available from here.
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Gordon Davies
retired, Open University, UK
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"You grew up in England with America being in a completely different world. In your early years and teens the idea that you might get to travel to America was just not possible. It was like going to the moon as far as I was concerned. So ACM in the US were this golden thing and far away. So I joined them. I submitted a paper to SIGCSE and I think it was about '79 I went to a SIGCSE. Conference about one of the computer management courses we were giving. . That is when I first sort of met people and thought there is nothing like this in the UK at all. Few people are interested in teaching. That is when my real interest started from. In '84 when I met Boots [Cassel] and I used to harass her about the fact it [SIGCSE] was too US oriented. And it is time they did something in Europe. So we ended up with ITiCSE." Link to this audio snippet in new window |
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