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activities of, 235, 236 view of broadening of CS&E, 60,61, 64 B Basic research. See Research Bloch, Erich, 222-223 Broadening of computer science and technology ACM views regarding, 60,61,64 committee views on, 56,65,141 conclusions regarding, 90 educational changes and, 85-86
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Mani, 74 Chip design advances in, 176-178 limits on, 178, 179 Commercial computing collaborative work in, 81-83 concerns that motivate database research, 109- 110 CS&E and, 76-77 interoperation technology for, 79-81 model management and decision support for, 77-78 software development metrics and modeling for, 79 usable software for, 78-79 Committee to Assess the Scope and Direction of Computer Science and Technology, x, xvii areas of concern for future reports identified by, 155- 157 conclusions drawn by, 9, 157- 158 interoperation difficulties experienced by, 79, 80 judgments made by, 4-5 priorities formulated by, 5, 114, 139142 recommendations to federal policy INDEX makers regarding education, 8, 151-153 to federal policy makers regarding research, 6-7, 143-146 to universities regarding education, 8-9, 153-155 to universities regarding research, 7 8, 146, 148-151 study made by, 18-19 views on broadening of field, 56, 65, 141 views on education, 117, 121, 125, 130, 133-134, 141-142 Compilers advances in, 97, 189-190 explanation of, 96, 170 Complexity theory, 26, 95, 178, 179, 198-199 Computational biology, 72-76 Computational complexity. See complexity theory Computational science, 62 Computer architecture and development of compiler technology, 96, 97 elements involved in, 22-23 high-speed, 178 Computer graphics advances in, 204-205, 211 history of, 206-207 intellectual challenges in, 209-212 for scientific and engineering community, 207-208 Computer hardware.
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, 97, 174 research agenda on parallelism, 99, 100 research agenda on software engineering, 103, 104 Computer Science Accreditation Board, 236 Computer science and engineering (CS&E) as academic discipline, 87 background information regarding, 1 3, 19-24, 60-64, 163-168 broader agenda for.
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See also Faculty changes in environment in, 47-48 and continuing education, 134 cost of computing technology for, 48, 119-120, 155-156, 233-234 education recommendations for, 8-9. 153-155 and interaction with industry and commerce to produce broader agenda, 38, 86-87, 150 need for reorientation of, 87-88 research recommendations for, 7-8, 146, 148-151 role of CS&E within, 231-235 Educators.
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See also Artificial intelligence F Faculty age, degrees, and rank of, 253-258 expansion of HPCC to address needs of, 151 overview of CS&E, 118, 119 recognition and rewards for, 154 support for interdisciplinary or applications-oriented research among, 150 teaching loads for, 127, 257-258 women and non-Asian-minorities represented in, 247-248 Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET) , 34, 146 Federal government compact between university research and, 48 relationship between CS&E research and, 28-38 Federal policy makers education recommendations to, 8, 151-153 research recommendations to, 6-7, 143-146 Foreign students, 251-253 Funding amounts per academic researcher, 34 35 broadening of agenda to gain nontraditional, 60 critical nature of, 2-3 encouragement for faculty to seek out, 150 269 by federal agencies, 29-31, 60, 217 230.
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algorithms, 195, 196, 198 M Mathematics comparison of CS&E to, 57 contributions of CS&E to, 58, 59 influences on development of, 56, 57 ~ ~ McCarthy, John, 200 Microelectronics, 175-178 Minorities in CS&E, 154- 156, 246-247 in faculty positions, 247-248 Minsky, Marvin, 200 INDEX Mission to Planet Earth, 228 Morgan, H.E., 87-88 Multiple processors, 97, 100- 101 N National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) , 29, 34, 70, 227-228 The National Challenge in Computer Science and Technology (CSTB)
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applied, 29, 65, 67 broader definition of, 88-89 271 computer industry involvement in, 38-45 interaction between computing practice and, 5, 55-56 in non-Ph.D.-granting institutions, 119 overview of federal support for, 28-38 recommendations regarding, 6-8, 143-151 relationship to development, 65 role of, 2 Research agenda for data communications and networking, 101 - 103 formulation of broader, 64-68, 86-89 for future, 95-98 for information storage and management, 107-110 regarding processor capabilities and multiple-processor systems, 97, 99101 for reliability, 110- 111 for software engineering, 103- 107 summary and conclusions regarding, 113-114 for user interface, 111 - 113 Research funding. See Funding Researchers academic vs.
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See Educational institutions U.S. Global Change Research Program, 70, 72 User interfaces advances in, 205-212 explanation of, 170 gestures in, 208-209 research agenda for, 111 - 113 V Visualization.
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