Jeannette M. Wing ,President's Professor of Computer Science Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon
Computational Thinking: Two and a Half Years Later
Friday, September 26, 2008,Newell Simon Hall 1305, 12:00 pm
Abstract
My vision for the 21st Century: Computational thinking will be a
fundamental skill used by everyone in the world. I stated this vision
over a year and a half ago and since then, the response by the
computing community has been tremendously gratifying. In this talk I
will describe how in my role at NSF I have able to reach an even
broader community-- beyond CMU, beyond computer science,
beyond other sciences and engineering, and even beyond the US--in
terms of both research and education. As a field, we are still early
in our potential impact and I will point out opportunities for
computer scientists to further our reach into all fields of endeavor
and into all, especially the early, stages of the educational pipeline.