Computing the Future A Broader Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering (1992) / Chapter Skim
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In nearly every part of modern life, the hardware and software of computer technology enable the delivery of services and products of higher quality to more people in less time than would otherwise be possible. Indeed, computing and increasingly powerful computers are the driving force behind the movement of society into the information age, affecting transportation, finance, health care, and most other aspects of modern life; computing technology and related services account for about 5 percent of the gross national product.
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From its initial support of CS&E research for strictly military purposes, the federal government now invests considerable amounts ($680 million in FY 1991) in basic and applied CS&E research for both military and civilian purposes; about 46 percent of this $680 million went to academic research.
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are being questioned increasingly by the federal government, and justifications for research may well in the future require concrete demonstrations of positive benefit to the nation. An illustration of this possible trend is that the High Performance Computing and Communications Program, a program initiated in FY 1992, calls for CS&E research specifically in the context of solving "fundamental problems in science and engineering, with potentially broad economic, political, and/ or scientific impact, that could be advanced by applying high performance computing resources.")
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CS&E research can be framed within the discipliners own intellectual traditions but also irk a manner that is directly applicable to other problem domains, as illustrated in Table ES.1. CS&E can thus be err engine of progress TABLE ES.1 Importance of Core Subfields of CS&E to Selected Applications Application Global Change Computational Commercial Electronic Research Biology Computing Library Multiple processors Very Central Important Very important important Data communications Central Important Central Central and networking Software engineering Important Nlery Central Important Important Information storage Central Very fiery Central and management important important Reliability Very Important Very Important important important User interfaces Very Very Central Central important important NOTE: The core subfields listed above constitute a future research agenda for CS&E.
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The quality of undergraduate CS&E education is inextricably tied to the state of computing practice in all sectors of society. Moreover, better undergraduate education is necessary for better research, since it is necessary for transmitting recently developed core knowledge to the next generation and for providing the intellectual basis in CS&E for individuals pursuing a broader research agenda.
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Arid finally, a fully funded HPCC Program will have a major impact on relieving the funding stress affecting the academic CS&E community. Consistent with Priority 1, the committee believes that the basic research and human resources component of the HPCC program is critical, because it is the component most likely to support the research that will allow us to exploit anticipated technologies as well as those yet to be discovered through such research.
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The academic CS&E community should regard as scholarship any activity that results in significant new knowledge and demonstrable intellectual achievement, without regard for whether that activity is related to a particular application or whether it falls into the traditional categories of basic research, applied research, or development. Chapter 5 describes appropriate actions to implement this recommendation.
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The basic research and human resources component of the High Performance Computing and Communications Program should be expanded to address educational needs of certain faculty. The program described in Chapter 5 to address these needs is estimated to cost DO million over a four-year period.
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This expansive view of CS&E will require a commensurately broader educational agenda for academic CS&E, as well as undergraduate education of higher quality. Adequate funding from the federal government and greater interactions between academia and industry and commerce will help immeasurably to promote the broadening and strengthening of the discipline.
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