From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Feb 6 08:49:37 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l16DnbZa000386 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:49:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.89]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l16DnQVU072143 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:49:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 17943 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 13:49:26 -0000 Received: from mailscan8.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.55) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 13:49:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 136 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 13:49:26 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 13:49:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 21505 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 13:49:17 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 13:49:17 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3172745 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:49:16 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 968 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 13:49:16 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 13:49:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 13892 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 13:49:16 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp4.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 13:49:16 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l16DnG1T000367 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:49:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l16DnG0w000365 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:49:16 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702061349.l16DnG0w000365@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:49:16 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: COMPUTATIONAL THINKING To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2527/Tue Feb 6 05:14:46 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 2031 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: COMPUTATIONAL THINKING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Earlier, Albert posted a message about an article by Jeannette Wing on the nature of computational thinking. The following item, forwarded by Prof. Jayaraman (chairman of CSE) is relevant to that: | Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:34:26 -0500 | From: Bharat Jayaraman | To: cse-faculty | Subject: Jeannette Wing to head NSF CISE Directorate | | Extract from ACM Tech News: | | Carnegie Mellon University computer science department head Jeanette | Wing, who was selected by the NSF to lead its new Information Science & | Engineering Directorate beginning in July, sat down with Computerworld | to discuss her vision of the project. While her background in security | and trustworthy computing made her an attractive candidate, Wing | believes that she was chosen for her background in computational | thinking, which she describes as the philosophy that "The ideas in | computing, the abstractions we bring from CS, will pervade all other | disciplines--not just other sciences and engineering--but also | humanities, arts, social sciences, entertainment, and everything." She | envisions algorithms created in the NSF project being applied in the | future for uses that couldn't be predicted today. Wing is also an active | supporter of computer science education, and believes that the public, | specifically the youth, must be informed as to the "deep intellectual | challenges that remain in the field." As far as gender inequality in | computer science, Wing is more concerned with the overall drop in | undergraduate enrollment and sees the need to show that the field is | "not just geeky, nerdy types, and it's not just programming." | | For More Information: | | http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9010161 | | - Bharat |