Workshop: Computing Education Needs Assessment, February 2008 - Washington, DC.

这次研讨会聚集了计算机和信息相关学科的主要利益相关者和领导人，以审查这些领域的教育需求。鉴于这些关键领域对美国的经济和技术健康至关重要，这样的聚会是及时的。研讨会参与者正在编写一份白皮书，该白皮书记录了计算社区对一组重点优先事项和行动计划的知情共识。这个项目的智力价值在于，计算社区是多样化的，植根于几个不同的学科，并与更多的学科有着密切的关系。因此，确保该领域满足其教育需要的挑战和机遇是复杂的，无论是在技术上还是在代表具有各种议程的不同选民的团体之间的协调互动方面。通过激发计算机社区内不同的学术和实践团体之间的合作，可以感受到研讨会的广泛影响。此外，还非常强调确保目前在计算和信息领域代表性不足的社区的代表性，特别是妇女、黑人和西班牙裔。此外，研讨会报告还鼓励采取行动，扭转目前计算机专业学生人数下降的趋势。

This workshop is gathering key stakeholders and leaders in computing and information related disciplines to examine the education needs in these areas. Such a gathering is timely given that these critical fields have emerged as essential for the economic and technological health of the United States. The workshop participants are producing a white paper that documents the informed consensus of the computing community on a focused set of priorities and plan of action. The intellectual merit of the project lies in the fact that the computing community is diverse, with roots in several different disciplines and close relationships with many more. Hence the challenges and opportunities for ensuring that the field meets its education needs are complex, both technically and in terms of the coordinated interaction of groups that represent different constituencies with a variety of agendas. The workshop's broader impacts are being felt through its stimulation of collaboration among the diverse academic and practitioner groups within the computing community. In addition, there is a strong emphasis on ensuring representation of communities currently under represented in the computing and information fields, specifically women, blacks, and Hispanics. Moreover, the workshop report is stimulating action to reverse the current decline in the number of students in the computing pipeline.