Computer Science: Reflection and Future

The Future of Computer Science

Computer science is undergoing a fundamental change and is reshaping our understanding of the world. An important aspect of this change is the theory and applications dealing with the gathering and analyzing of large real-world data sets. In this paper, we introduce four research projects in which processing and interpreting large data sets is a central focus. Innovative ways of analyzing such ...

Computer science concept inventories: past and future

Computer science concept inventories: past and future C. Taylor, D. Zingaro, L. Porter, K.C. Webb, C.B. Lee & M. Clancy a Department of Computer Science, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA. b Department of Math and Computer Sciences, University of Toronto, ON, Canada. c Computer Science and Eng. Dept., University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. d Department of Computer Science, Swarthmore Col...

Future Directions in Computer Science Research

Over the last 40 years, computer science research was focused on making computers useful. Areas included programming languages, compilers, operating systems, data structures and algorithms. These are still important topics but with the merging of computing and communication, the emergence of social networks, and the large amount of information in digital form, focus is shifting to applications ...

Computer security in the future

Until recently, computer security was an obscure discipline that seemed to have little relevance to everyday life. With the rapid growth of the Internet, e-commerce, and the widespread use of computers, computer security touches almost all aspects of daily life and all parts of society. Even those who do not use computers have information about them stored on computers. This paper reviews some ...

Theoretical Computer Science and Software Science: The Past, the Present and the Future (Position Paper)