Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Jean-Christophe Bach participated to scientific mediation by proposing several activities to demonstrate the algorithmic thinking at the core of the Computer Science without requiring any computer or even electric devices. These activities are the first part of the CSIRL (Computer Science In Real Life) project which aims to popularize computer science and to initiate children, school students and non-scientists into this domain. These activities were presented during the high school students welcome at LORIA and Inria - Nancy Grand Est, and also during APMEP (http://www.apmep.asso.fr/ ) days.

Jean-Christophe Bach was also involved in popularization activities with Interstices (http://interstices.info ) by writing short debunking articles (“Idées reçues”) for non computer scientists about Church's thesis and Turing's work.