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A Golden Age For Computing Frontiers, A Dark Age For Computing Education?, Christof Teuscher
A Golden Age For Computing Frontiers, A Dark Age For Computing Education?, Christof Teuscher
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There is no doubt that the body of knowledge spanned by the computing disciplines has gone through an unprecedented expansion, both in depth and breadth, over the last century. In this position paper, we argue that this expansion has led to a crisis in computing education: quite literally the vast majority of the topics of interest of this conference are not taught at the undergraduate level and most graduate courses will only scratch the surface of a few selected topics. But alas, industry is increasingly expecting students to be familiar with emerging topics, such as neuromorphic, probabilistic, and quantum computing, …