Computing 2002: Democracy, Education, and the Future Anita Borg Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Palo Alto, California 94304 USA omputing has changed dramatically during m y thirty-two years in the field. In education, computer science has grown from the 1970s-style small university department that newly sprouted from mathematics or electrical engineering and had an inferiority complex to the current strong collection o f fields that impact every element o f science, engineering, business, and even humanities. In industry, a time o f data-processing departments that were neither understood nor trusted by executives has given way to an era in which the CIO is one o f the most important figures in every company. C o m p u t e r scientists, c o m p u t e r engineers, information technologists, and their collective products have grown and changed in quantity, quality, and nature. Every eighteen months we generate more data than has been generated in all human history, and in a few years our students will be able to have every book they will ever read on their laptops and the Library o f Congress on a desktop. We're on the verge o f the
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Computing 2002: democracy, education, and the future
Borg, Anita
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, Volume 34 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jun 1, 2002
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