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Undergraduate Computer Science (CS) curricular guidelines have been published regularly since 1968, and the latest released in 2013. From early 2021, a task force of the ACM, IEEE-Computer Society, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has worked on a decennial revision titled the ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Computer Science 2023 Curricula (CS2023). The CS2023 task force includes a 17-member steering committee, 17 knowledge area subcommittees, and an international group of disciplinary experts. CS2023 provides curricular content – a knowledge model largely backward compatible with CS2013, supplemented by a competency model – and curricular practices, comprising articles by independent experts on program design and delivery that complement curricular content guidelines. CS2023 will inform educators and administrators on the what, why, and how to cover undergraduate CS over the next decade. Ongoing work on CS2023 has been disseminated widely over the past two years: via the task force website; presentations at computing education conferences, e.g., SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2023; articles, e.g., ACM Inroads; emails to various computing education mailing lists; gathering community feedback via surveys and special sessions; and soliciting and receiving expert blind peer reviews. Building on earlier drafts, a gamma draft was released in September 2023, with the final version due by the end of 2023. This panel examines CS2023 from different perspectives. All panelists serve on the CS2023 steering committee and have an intimate understanding of CS2023. The moderator will lay out its overall vision and structure while panelists will emphasize three major perspectives of CS education: software development fundamentals; systems development; and the increased role of societal, ethical, and professional aspects crucial to a modern CS graduate. Strong interdependencies exist between these perspectives, along with tensions arising from how much can be squeezed into a tight undergraduate CS curriculum. Attendees will take home an understanding of the approach taken by the CS2023 task force, the constraints on curriculum design, and how best to use the CS2023 guidelines to educate the next generation of CS graduates.
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Infusing Principles and Practices for Secure Computing Throughout an Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum
In recent years, all computing disciplinary communities and curricular guidelines have increased their expectations of and requirements for incorporating cybersecurity into their discipline. For computer science, this has been a daunting task for a number of reasons, including the fast-paced evolution and expansion of the discipline, the perceived challenge of finding space in the curriculum, and the difficulty of selecting the best content. This paper takes the position that infusing security concepts pervasively into an undergraduate Computer Science program is a crucial and attainable best practice. A five-step methodology is presented to incorporate cybersecurity into a traditional computer science curriculum in a way that maintains disciplinary integrity without adding significant new curricular content. This methodology is consistent with the philosophy and recommendations of the latest computer science and cybersecurity curricular guidelines. The paper also illustrates the application of these techniques to a typical Computer Science program.
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- 10170818
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- Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
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- 82 to 88
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- National Science Foundation
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