Jean Gasen © -1,,,,,,,,I Sometimes I wonder if childbirth might be easier. Putting together a workshop, gathering and sifting through comments and insights from scores of individuals and integrating them into a coherent set of recommendations for action is truly a massive undertaking. The labor involved is just as intensive as childbirth, but it seems to last a whole lot longer. With a dogged perseverance, Gary Strong lead the effort to produce the final report, New Directions in Human-Computer Interaction Education, Research and Practice. Sponsored by the National Science Founda- reengineer their policies and procedures to place HCI in the central fabric of funding and development activity. Happily, and at long last for some, the importance of education and practice is given equal weight with research in addressing HCI priorities for the future. That is, the education of today's and tomorrow's HCI-oriented professionals is viewed as key to meeting the challenge of the National Information Infrastructure (Nil) initiatives. Computer science must play a vital role in this process and the implications for higher education in general, and computer science specifically, are significant. The report's conclusions on education underscore the importance of this role in influencing change: In orderfar
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