CPATH CB: Supporting Non-CISE Majors in a Computing Community

该CPATH基金旨在帮助非计算机专业的学生在各自领域的计算机应用方面做出重大贡献，让他们有机会了解计算机如何影响他们自己的学科，并在那些真正对这些学科有价值的开源项目中做出贡献。该基金将开发两个项目，一个是硕士系列研讨会，另一个是开源解决方案中心。大师研讨会系列，在艺术温室大师班为蓝本，让学生与来自各个领域的专业人士互动，他们在这些领域的贡献已经推进了计算和技术的使用。参观包括普通观众讲座和演示，以及与选定的学生在适当的学科更密集的大师班相结合。硕士研讨会计划为各种各样的学科，包括计算生物学和化学，以及在艺术和人文。中心为开放源码解决方案（COSS）将提供合作的物理空间和资源的虚拟交换所开发的开放源码解决方案在各个学科。不断发展的开源社区为本科生提供了许多机会，为各个领域的问题提供解决方案。然而，学生通常无法评估特定贡献的可行性。该中心将帮助学生评估成功项目贡献的潜力，并将促进与其他各种机构的开源项目的交流。该项目将作为一个模型，如何通过让学生和教师参与自己学科内的计算思想，来增加传统非计算学科的学生和教师对计算的参与。

This CPATH grant addresses the potential of non-computing majors to make significant contributions to computing applications within their fields by offering them opportunities to learn how computing influences their own disciplines and to contribute in open source projects that are authentically valuable with those disciplines.Two programs to be developed under this grant will be a Masters Seminar Series and a Center for Open Source Solutions. The Masters Seminar Series, modeled on conservatory Masters Classes in the arts, allow students to interact with professionals from a wide variety of fields whose contributions in those field have advanced the use of computation and technology. Visits consist of a combination of general audience lectures and demonstrations and more intensive Masters Classes with selected students in the appropriate disciplines. Masters Seminars are planned for a wide variety of disciplines including computational biology and chemistry as well as in the arts and humanities.The Center for Open Source Solutions (COSS) will provide both physical space for collaboration and a virtual clearinghouse of resources for development of open source solutions in various disciplines. The growing open source community offers undergraduates many opportunities to contribute solutions to problems within a variety of fields. However, students are not typically in a position to evaluate the feasibility of a particular contribution. The Center will help students assess the potential for a successful project contribution and will facilitate communication with open source projects at various other institutions.This project will serve as a model of how to increase participation in computing by students and faculty from traditional non-computing disciplines by engaging them in computational ideas within their own disciplines.