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by light_hue_1 895 days ago
Yeah, I would hard disagree. It's a disservice to students to teach this course as is.

Students need to get up to date on a topic so that they can do research if they want. Teaching a course that's 10-20 years out of date is a serious problem. They won't know what questions people ask now, they won't know any of the current players, etc.

This isn't a generic ToC course. This is supposed to be a survey of research. Nowhere does it make it clear that this is vastly outdated research.