CPATH-2: Collaborative Research: A Field Guide to the Science of Computation

该CPATH奖支持一组杰出的计算机科学家开发，实施和测试计算领域指南。现场指南包括一系列内容，具有深刻的见解，为计算提供了科学框架。 然后，由包括ACM教育委员会、计算机科学教师协会、CS Unplugged和LabRats在内的合作伙伴网络对内容进行测试。实施将发生在各种各样的设置，包括基础中学和高中在图森，在美国的顶级高中之一，和哈特内尔学院，在加州的2年制大学。该项目包括一个庞大的专家团队，分为4个工作组和杰出的科学顾问。外部评估人员将评估内容和实地指南的有效性，以实现项目目标。该项目的长期目标是用新的理解取代当前的计算观点，即计算是与物理科学，生命科学和社会科学同等重要的科学领域。该项目直接支持CPATH的三个主要目标。(1)它通过为计算提供科学框架来提高美国的竞争力，这将推动技术发展并吸引更多聪明的学生，包括更多女性和代表性不足的群体。(2)它通过为本科生和大学预科生提供新的学习可能性，增加了发展计算思维的学生人数。(3)它是变革性的，因为它提出了一个科学框架的计算，这是没有做过的。该项目突出了计算的未被重视的一面，即它是一个基于合理的科学理论和第一原则的伟大科学领域。这个雄心勃勃的项目已经聚集了一个由专家和组织合作伙伴组成的一流团队，他们跨越了计算和计算管道的广泛领域。它不仅包括内容的开发，还包括在真实的环境中的部署，以及可持续性的具体计划。 计算科学提供了深刻的见解和令人惊讶的预测，以及验证预测和发现的实验方法。该项目有可能对计算的基本性质及其与其他学科的关系以及计算教学的方式产生重大影响。通过从核心计算机科学到不同年龄组的代表，该项目将找到向许多代人传达科学信息的方法。它还将为其他科学家提供坚实的基础，与计算机科学家作为同行进行互动，以寻求新的发现。

This CPATH award supports a distinguished group of computer scientists to develop, implement, and test a Field Guide for computing. The Field Guide includes a body of content with deep insights to provide a scientific framework for computing. The content is then tested by a collaborative partnership network including the ACM Education Board, the Computer Science Teachers Association, CS Unplugged, and LabRats. Implementation will occur in a wide variety of settings, including the BASIS Middle School and High School in Tuscon, one of the top high schools in the United States, and the Hartnell College, a 2 year college in California. The project includes a large team of experts broken into 4 working groups and distinguished scientific advisors. An external evaluator will measure the effectiveness of the content and field guide to attain the project goals.This project's long-range objective is to replace current views of computing with a new understanding, that computing is great domain of science, on par with the physical, life, and social sciences. This project directly supports the three main CPATH goals. (1) It contributes to US competitiveness by providing a scientific framework for computing, which will advance technology development and attract many more bright students, including more women and underrepresented groups. (2) It increases the number of students developing computational thinking by offering new learning possibilities, for undergraduates as well as for pre-college students. (3) It is transformative because it brings forward a science framework for computing, which has not been done before.Intellectual Merit. The project brings to the fore an underappreciated side ofComputing, that it is a great domain of science based on sound scientific theories and first principles. The ambitious project has amassed a stellar team of experts and organizational partners that span broad sectors of computing and the computing pipeline. It includes not only development of content, but deployment in real settings, and concrete plans for sustainability. Computation science offer deep insights and surprising predictions, and an experimental method to validate predictions and make discoveries. This project has the potential to substantially impact the fundamental nature of computing and its relationship to other disciplines and the way in which computing is taught.Broader Impacts. By reaching out from hard-core computer science to representatives of different age groups, the project will find ways to convey the science message to many generations. It will also provide solid grounding for other scientists to interact with computer scientists as peers in the search for new discoveries.