Indicators of the Origins and Growth of Computer Science

这个项目将描述计算机科学作为一门学术学科的出现。在调查了十个左右的计算机科学学术部门之后，PI将描述这些部门不同机构历史中的重要因素。为了解释目前美国大学学术计算机科学的制度结构，将调查诸如校外资助模式、现有学科部门的实力、有组织的研究单位所扮演的各种角色等因素。该项目将提供关于一个科学研究领域的出现的定量和定性的基本数据，以供今后的S&amp；EI报告使用。这项工作本身将作为如何描述一个快速变化的跨学科领域的模型，因为它在国家的校园中建立起来。

This project will describe the emergence of computer science as an academic discipline. The PI, after investigation of ten or so academic departments of computer science, will describe the major factors important in the different institutional histories of these departments. Factors such as extramural funding patterns, the strength of existing disciplinary departments, the various roles played by organized research units, etc., will be investigated in order to explain the present institutional structure of academic computer science in U.S. universities. The project will provide basic data, both quantitative and qualitative, on the emergence of a field of scientific research for use in future S&EI reports. The work itself will serve as a model of how to describe a rapidly-changing, interdisciplinary field as it establishes itself on the nation's campuses.