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Archive for January 10th, 2006

On “Recentering Computer Science”

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

The November 2005 issue of the Communications of the ACM includes a provocative article by Peter Denning and Andrew McGettrick on “Recentering Computer Science.” This article responds to the declining enrollment in computer science by offering a startling suggestion: Use “innovation” as the central theme of computing. While I agree with innovation as [...]