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Computer science: past, present, and future

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 40, Issue 1

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1352322.1352321

Published: 12 March 2008 Publication History

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Computing research has made remarkable advances, but there's much more to be accomplished. The next few decades of advances should be even more significant, and even more interesting, than the past few.

The National Science Foundation has created the Computing Community Consortium to engage computing researchers in an ongoing process of visioning - of imagining what we might contribute to the world, in terms that we and the world might both appreciate.

This process is just beginning, and I'd like to take this opportunity to engage you. I will review the progress that our field has made, and I'll present a number of "grand challenge" problems that we should be prepared to tackle in the coming decade. I'll invite your contributions.

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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
,
Susan Rodger
Duke University
,
Program Chairs:
Sue Fitzgerald
Metropolitan State University
,
Mark Guzdial
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Sigman SCallen BAllen CDeeds DWood M(2012)Involving undergraduate computer science students in the support of academic researchJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/2168874.216891027:5(145-151)Online publication date: 1-May-2012
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Mann SMuller LDavis JRoda CYoung A(2010)Computing and sustainabilityACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1709424.170945941:4(144-155)Online publication date: 18-Jan-2010
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Mann SSmith LMuller L(2008)Computing education for sustainabilityACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1473195.147324140:4(183-193)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1473195.1473241

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