11/29/2021 1:57:50 PM
The S.A.D. Newsletter -- This week I am writing about “Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast” — an oral history project featuring prominent computer scientists. The podcast is a project led by my friend Indy Gupta — a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. History matters and who gets to write and tell these stories matter also. So the idea of oral history (Studs Terkel in the U.S was a seminal figure in popularizing oral histories) or people’s history is a powerful device that brings out often overlooked people and ideas to the forefront.