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Introducing an experimental cognitive robotics curriculum at historically black colleges and universities

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Andrew B. Williams,

David S. Touretzky,

Ethan J. Tira-Thompson,

LaVonne Manning,

Chutima Boonthum,

Clement S. AllenAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 40, Issue 1

Pages 498 - 502

https://doi.org/10.1145/1352322.1352303

Published: 12 March 2008 Publication History

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A successful collaboration between Spelman College and Carnegie Mellon University led to an NSF-funded Broadening Participation in Computing project to set up robotics education laboratories and introduce undergraduate instruction in cognitive robotics at three other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). We give a brief overview of cognitive robotics and the Tekkotsu software architecture, and describe our experiences teaching computer science students with no previous robotics exposure to program sophisticated mobile robots.

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1. Applied computing
  1. Operations research
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2. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 40, Issue 1

SIGCSE 08

March 2008

549 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1352322

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SIGCSE '08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2008
606 pages
ISBN:9781595937995
DOI:10.1145/1352135
General Chairs:
J. D. Dougherty
Haverford College
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Susan Rodger
Duke University
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Sue Fitzgerald
Metropolitan State University
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Mark Guzdial
Georgia Institute of Technology

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2010.02.009
Riep JPrabhakar ALunt BHansen DMorrey P(2021)Leveraging Bias Conscious Artificial Intelligence to Increase STEM Graduates Among Underrepresented PopulationsProceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/3450329.3476848(73-74)Online publication date: 6-Oct-2021
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Tira-Thompson ETouretzky D(2011)The Tekkotsu robotics development environment2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980533(6084-6089)Online publication date: May-2011
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980533
Nickens GTira-Thompson EHumphries TTouretzky D(2009)An inexpensive hand-eye system for undergraduate robotics instructionACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1539024.150901641:1(423-427)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2009
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Nickens GTira-Thompson EHumphries TTouretzky DFitzgerald SGuzdial MLewandowski GWolfman S(2009)An inexpensive hand-eye system for undergraduate robotics instructionProceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/1508865.1509016(423-427)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2009
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