Collaborative Rsch: Northeast Workshop in Integrative Computing, Education and Research (ICER)

马萨诸塞大学和罗格斯大学提议计划并领导一个为期两天的综合计算教育与研究(ICER)研讨会，该研讨会将于2005年10月底或11月初在波士顿或纽约地区举行。这次研讨会的目的是将东北地区对CEISE本科教育有浓厚兴趣的广泛利益相关者聚集在一起。马萨诸塞大学的教授吉姆·黑罗斯和罗格斯大学的芭芭拉·莱德将担任研讨会的联合主席。这两位PI是公立研究型大学的资深教员，他们积极参与各自学校的课程工作，也是专业社区的领导者。我们学科的不断变化的技术性质，对集成和系统级能力的日益增长的需求，以及我们教育的学生(以及我们目前无法接触到的学生)面临的新挑战，共同为这次研讨会提供了动力。研讨会将汇集来自东北地区对CISE本科教育有浓厚兴趣的广泛利益相关者，以确定和讨论美国本科计算教育所需的变革。研讨会将在组织和创造计算本科课程的创新方面向前迈出重要的一步，认识到它与其他学科的关系，并认识到它作为一门不断发展的学科的性质。研讨会的成果将是一份记录研讨会产生的想法的报告，以及一套向NSF提出的有助于启动必要变革的计划活动的建议。研讨会的建议将针对长期、高影响和潜在高风险的战略，以催化全国本科计算机教育的变革。大力强调将目前代表性不足的群体纳入计算机教育的问题也将进一步扩大讲习班对社会的影响。拟议的讲习班本质上是一项面向社区的活动，因为其目标是制定与该领域技术进步相一致的新课程理念。

The University of Massachusetts and Rutgers University propose to plan and lead a two-day workshop on Integrative Computing Education & Research (ICER), to be held in late October or early November 2005 in the metropolitan Boston or New York area. The purpose of this workshop will be to bring together a broad range of stakeholders from the northeast region with strong interests in CISE undergraduate education. Professors Jim Kurose of the University of Massachusetts and Barbara Ryder of Rutgers University will serve as workshop co-chairs. The two PIs are senior faculty members at public research universities, active in curriculum efforts at their schools, and leaders in the professional community.The ever-changing technical nature of our discipline, the growing need for integrativeand systems-level capabilities, and the new challenges faced by the students we educate(as well as those we currently fail to reach) together provide the impetus for thisworkshop. The workshop will bring together a broad range of stakeholders from thenortheast region with strong interests in CISE undergraduate education, to identify anddiscuss needed transformations in undergraduate computing education in the USA. Theworkshop will provide an important step forward in organizing and creating innovationsin an undergraduate curriculum in computing, cognizant of its relationship to otherdisciplines and recognizing its nature as a constantly evolving discipline. The output ofthe workshop will be a report documenting the ideas emerging from the workshop, aswell as a set of recommendations to the NSF for programmatic activities that could helpinitiate the needed transformations.The workshop recommendations will be aimed at long-term, high impact, and potentiallyhigh-risk, strategies to catalyze the transformation of undergraduate computing educationthroughout the nation. Strong emphasis on issues of inclusion of currently underrepresented groups in computing education also will further broaden theworkshop's impact on society. The proposed workshop is inherently a community-oriented activity, as its goal is to develop new curriculum ideas consistent withtechnological advances in the field.