Using science fiction to teach science facts

Ender’s Game: Using Science Fiction to Teach Child Development

Teach Network Science to Teenagers

Heather A. Harrington, Mariano Beguerisse Dı́az, M. Puck Rombach, Laura M. Keating, and Mason A. Porter 4 Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK CABDyN Complexity Centre, Un...

Teaching AI Ethics Using Science Fiction

The cultural and political implications of modern AI research are not some far off concern, they are things that affect the world in the here and now. From advanced control systems with advanced visualizations and image processing techniques that drive the machines of the modern military to the slow creep of a mechanized workforce, ethical questions surround us. Part of dealing with these ethic...

Informaticology: combining Computer Science, Data Science, and Fiction Science

Motivated by an intention to remedy current complications with Dutch terminology concerning informatics, the term informaticology is positioned to denote an academic counterpart of informatics where informatics is conceived of as a container for a coherent family of practical disciplines ranging from computer engineering and software engineering to network technology, data center management, in...

Using Science Fiction in Teaching Artificial Intelligence

Many factors are blamed for the decreasing enrollments in computer science and engineering programs in the U.S., including the dot-com economic bust and the increase in the use of “off-shore” programming labor. One major factor is also the lack of bold new vision and excitement about computer science, which thus results in a view of computer science as a field wedded to routine programming. To ...