AI in Computer Science Education
From Oxide and Friends by Oxide Computer Company
May 10, 2026 · 1h 29m · Season 6 · Episode 10
About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of AI on Computer Science education with insights from professors at Brown University.
AI is an existential topic for all aspects of education--for none more so than Computer Science. Bryan and Adam were joined by Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi, professors of Computer Science at Brown, to discuss their experimental introductory course that strongly incorporates agentic programming. What do students take away from their "smoke the whole pack" approach? In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers included Shriram Krishnamurthi , Kathi Fisler , and Will. Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: OxF s5e29: AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman Greenspun's tenth rule Andy van Dam Brown CS15 Tetris Wesleyan Tetris Generating Programs Trivially: Student Use of Large Language Models Data-Centricity: A Challenge and Opportunity for Computing Education -- Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler LLMs ⭢ Regular Expressions, Responsibly! If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar . We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
People in this episode
Hosts: Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal
Guests: Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi
Topics covered
- AI in education
- Computer Science
- agentic programming
- introductory courses
- large language models
- data-centricity
Keywords
- AI
- Computer Science education
- agentic programming
- large language models
- data-centricity
- introductory courses
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Brown, Oxide Computer Company
Products: Large Language Models, Regular Expressions
Books & works: Greenspun's tenth rule, Tetris, Data-Centricity: A Challenge and Opportunity for Computing Education
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