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》包括一系列具有深刻见解的内容，以提供计算的科学框架。然后，由ACM教育委员会、计算机科学教师协会、CS未插电和实验室组成的合作伙伴网络对内容进行测试。实施将在各种各样的环境中进行，包括美国顶尖高中之一图斯康市的Basis中学和高中，以及加利福尼亚州的哈特内尔学院(Hartnell College)。该项目包括一个分成4个工作组的大型专家团队和杰出的科学顾问。外部评估者将衡量内容和现场指南的有效性，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对计算的看法，即计算是科学的大领域，与物理、生命和社会科学并驾齐驱。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，包括更多的女性和代表性不足的群体。(2)它为本科生和预科学生提供了新的学习可能性，从而增加了发展计算思维的学生的数量。(3)它具有变革性，因为它提出了一个计算的科学框架，这是以前从未做过的。该项目突出了计算被低估的一面，即它是建立在健全的科学理论和基本原理基础上的一个伟大的科学领域。这个雄心勃勃的项目已经积累了一支由专家和组织合作伙伴组成的优秀团队，涵盖了广泛的计算和计算管道部门。它不仅包括内容的开发，而且包括在真实环境中的部署，以及可持续发展的具体计划。计算科学提供了深刻的见解和令人惊讶的预测，并提供了一种验证预测和做出发现的实验方法。这个项目有可能极大地影响计算的基本性质及其与其他学科的关系，以及计算的发展方式。通过将核心计算机科学延伸到不同年龄段的代表，该项目将找到方法将科学信息传达给许多代人。它还将为其他科学家在寻找新发现的过程中与计算机科学家进行同行互动提供坚实的基础。

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.