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Rick Snodgrass and Peter Denning of the Naval Postgraduate School receive $800,000 CPATH-2 grant
September 24, 2009
Richard Snodgrass is Principal Investigator, along with Peter Denning, Chair of the Computer Science Department, Naval Postgraduate School, of an $800,000 NSF grant that will place computing squarely as a science, on par with the physical, life, and social sciences. This new understanding will make the field more attractive for students and science collaborators. The plan is to develop a body of content that presents the deep insights of scientific theories of computing, attuned by field testing to a broad range of students, from middle school through graduate school. This content will be structured as a service, the Field Guide to the Science of Computation, which organizes the scientific theories of computing in a framework of seven categories: computation, communication, coordination, recollection, automation, evaluation, and design. In addition to the seven categories, the field guide will support two orientations (end-use and instruction), three perspectives (mathematics, science, and engineering), and four levels of entry (beginner, intermediate, advanced, and research). The content will be developed, tested, evaluated, delivered, and sustained over time by a collaboration network that includes the lead institutions (NPS and UA), their local education partners (BASIS and Hartnell College), the ACM Education Board, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), LabRats, and CS Unplugged.