CPATH CB: Applied Computer Science for the Humanities and Social Sciences

CPATH CB：人文社会科学应用计算机科学

• 批准号: 0829533
• 负责人: Steven Reiss
• 金额: $ 54万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0829533&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CPATH; CB; Applied; Computer; Science

Computers are becoming essential in all disciplines. Researchers in the social sciences rely on the availability of large data repositories and the general availability of data over the Web. Researchers in the humanities are increasingly looking to analyze the growing number of electronic corpora. Workers in all fields are making use of new ways to publish data and of to interact with colleagues and others using electronic media. Moreover, more and more jobs and companies are relying on the understanding and processing of information. Modern companies as diverse as Google, WalMart, Amazon, and Goldman Sachs all owe their success in large part to their ability to evaluate and act on available information. It is estimated that in the next ten years, over twelve million people in the U.S. workforce will consider programming their primary job, which is far more than the current or near-term number of computer science majors. To address these needs, to better prepare students for careers involving information processing, to preparetomorrow?s researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and to prepare tomorrow?s workers for an information-based world, computer science needs to reach out beyond its traditional audience and even beyond the sciences. This project focuses on disciplines that have traditionallybeen neglected by computer scientists, harnessing the growing revolution in applying computing to social artifacts. Second, it will result in a novel, application-driven, on-demand presentation of computing material, coming to topics like machine-learning and data-mining very early, rather than late, in the curriculum. Third, the development of a curriculum arranged in concentric rings of growing commitment, where a student who stops early will still get a meaningful education. It will provide the proper foundation for the growing use of computing and cyberinfrastructure in the humanities and social sciences. It will ultimately train such students have been relegated to with the tools to make their own non-trivial contributions to cyberinfrastructure. It will result in more women and minorities, groups traditionally underrepresented in computing, working with and using computation and cyberinfrastructure. Finally, it will enable students to wed their deep social and humanistic insights to tools that can enable them to build wonderful inventions that have the power to greatly enrich society.

计算机在所有学科中都变得必不可少。社会科学的研究人员依赖于大型数据仓库的可用性和Web上数据的普遍可用性。人文学科的研究人员越来越多地希望分析日益增长的电子语料库。所有领域的工作人员都在利用新的方式发布数据，并利用电子媒体与同事和其他人互动。此外，越来越多的工作和公司依赖于对信息的理解和处理。像谷歌、沃尔玛、亚马逊和高盛这样形形色色的现代公司都将它们的成功很大程度上归功于它们评估现有信息并采取行动的能力。据估计，在接下来的十年里，美国劳动力中将有超过1200万人考虑编程作为他们的主要工作，这远远超过目前或近期计算机科学专业的人数。为了满足这些需求，更好地为学生从事信息处理工作做准备，为明天做准备？S人文社会科学研究人员，为明天做准备？S工人进入信息化世界，计算机科学需要超越传统的受众，甚至超越科学。这个项目专注于那些传统上被计算机科学家忽视的学科，利用日益增长的革命，将计算应用于社会人工制品。其次，它将产生一种新颖的、应用程序驱动的、按需提供的计算材料演示，在课程中很早就开始讨论机器学习和数据挖掘等主题，而不是推迟。第三，课程的开发是按照不断增长的承诺安排的同心圆环，在这种情况下，早点停课的学生仍将获得有意义的教育。它将为在人文科学和社会科学中越来越多地使用计算和网络基础设施提供适当的基础。它最终将用工具培训这类被降级的学生，让他们为网络基础设施做出自己的重要贡献。这将导致更多的妇女和少数群体，这是传统上在计算、使用和使用计算和网络基础设施方面代表性不足的群体。最后，它将使学生能够将他们深刻的社会和人文洞察力与工具结合起来，使他们能够创造出能够极大地丰富社会的奇妙发明。