Effective Computer Science PETER A. FREEMAN College of Computmg, Georgia edu) Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia ( freernan@cc.gatech. As Peter Likins very succinctly noted at Snowbird in 1992 [Likins 1992], the compact between science and society that has shaped in higher education is essentially dead. The changes are by now becoming Computer science because modern that fact, of its unique life. The science irrelevant. be? How can we be so important obvious. is heavily character involved in the debates so much of what we do in public expectations about these changes of in sure and the centrality us as computer of education of computing scientists and research in so many need not to so much is to make does not, challenge facing computer become can this as a discipline How ways and at the here. same time be in danger of becoming irrelevant? The reasons are multiple and important, but Whatever missions the causes, of education, the reality research, be detailed is that we cannot and service in the continue our same manner university as in the Lin the past. In fact, I believe that Computing the Future [Hartmanis and 1992] has it right; it is also
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