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  • The Challenge

    It is a time of challenges for the computing field. We are tired of hearing that a computing professional is little more than a program coder or a system administrator; or that a college or graduate education is unnecessary; or that entering the computing field is a social death. We are dismayed that K-12 students, especially girls, have such a negative perception of computing. We are alarmed by reports that the innovation rate in our field has been declining and that enrollments in our degree programs have dropped 50% since 2001. Instead of the solo voice of the programmer, we would like to hear from the choir of mathematicians, engineers,and scientists who make up the bulk of our field. Rebooting Manifesto continued.

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  • The Solution

    To find viable solutions to the challenges facing the field of Computer Science we hosted an invitational summit of 200 visionary leaders from all sectors touched by computing, including science, engineering, industry, business, education, journalism, policy making, and government. We inquired into the reasons each of us has been fired up about our profession and into how we can ignite similar fires in others. We created projects and formed teams that will seed, nurture, and cultivate new ideas in the community. We will cross international borders. We will aggressively publicize the message of the wonder of our field and the hope for the future.

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Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing

The Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) is an interdisciplinary research and development center at Harvard dedicated to using innovative computing tools to accelerate discovery across all of the scientific disciplines.

http://iic.harvard.edu/

MIT's Scratch

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Summit Develops Action Plans to Reboot Interest in Computer Science

Fran Allen (top center), the first female computer scientist to ever receive an A.M. Turing Award, leads a small group discussion Jan. 14 at the Rebooting Computing Summit in Mountain View, Calif. The three-day summit, hosted by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority, wrapped up its final day of discussions Wednesday, with participants developing concrete action plans for reigniting interest in the computing field. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kellie Arakawa.

Summit Highlights

The 2009 Rebooting Computing Summit was held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA from Jan 12-14th and it was a great success. Thanks to all the attendees for their valued contributions as well as the Summit Design Team and Staff that worked so hard to bring it all together.

New York Times Article: What is Driving Women out of Computer Science?

By RANDALL STROSS Published: November 15, 2008 article permalink

ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She published a 124-page paper, “Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?”, that catalogued different cultural biases that discouraged girls and women from pursuing a career in the field. The year was 1991.

Summit Archive

Read the original Manifesto and view details about the first Summit Design Team at the 2009 Summit site archive.

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