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Let's take a deep breath and stop the overwrought talk about a STEM crisis and how it's leading to the end of the American way of life as we know it. If current trends hold, we'll have more than enough STEM professionals to fill the available jobs for years to come.
There are many enterprise architects, but there's no commonly accepted baseline of knowledge or standards to ensure consistent service. Formal professions often gradually evolve over time, but given enterprise architecture's importance to business, this profession must mature quickly.
The motivations of IT professionals who spend time trying to improve gender diversity in computing include both those oriented toward helping society and others that are more individual and personal. This is one of five articles providing personal perspectives on gender diversity in computing. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/Khh0DlVW9kk is a video interview in which Robert B. Schnabel, dean of the...
This article examines the origins and early history of the field of computer engineering in the United States, from the mid-1940s to mid-1950s. The account is based on both primary and secondary sources and draws theory from technology studies and the sociology of professions. The author begins by discussing roles played by engineers and engineering during the development of some of the first high-speed...
In most circumstances, computing has faded into the background of our lives as part of the global infrastructure. However, it still has the ability to remind of us its presence.
The more pervasive digital technology becomes, the more important it is to give the public a reasonable account of how it works, how it might be used, and how its use might affect us and our society.
As we look to the future, we must not only anticipate a year of innovation and progress but also a migration of labor that will remake the field of digital technology.
A proposed IEEE Computer Society student chapter model is designed to immerse students in activities that expose them to entrepreneurial thinking, with guidance from faculty and community members who are entrepreneurs.
The grand ideas that led to the 1991 High-Performance Computing Act shaped the modern Internet only as they sifted through layers of the vertical division of labor.
Data obesity is a consequence of data gluttony and vice versa. The paper focuses on remediable aspects relevant to the computing profession and, as the phrase "data obesity" suggests, to a few of the various aspects of the data involved rather than of the machinery processing the data.
The computing field is too diverse to allow defining a meaningful common body of theoretical and practical knowledge, the mastery of which should be a prerequisite for practice as a computing professional.
As with all engineering problems, we need to balance the twin factors of stability and control and do so in a way that doesn't damage either of them. This article is also available through David Alan Grier's blog, The Known World (http://www.computer.org/theknownworld).
The second in a series of three articles provides basic points to keep in mind when filing for a patent. The first part can be found in Computer's July 2011 issue ( http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2011.219).
One aspect of the engineering education that the author began back in the early 1950's seemed very strange at the time. It was the serious consideration of the step function, which was unlike anything treated in highschool mathermatics because it was discontinuous. While its relevance to the design of mechanical and electrical machinery soon became obvious, it has recently occurred to the author that...
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