时间：2011年11月3日(周四)上午10:30－11：30
主讲人：斯坦福大学计算机系教学系主任Mehran Sahami
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Computer Science
Associate Chair for Education and Director of Educational Affairs, Computer Science
Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
ACM Steering Committee Chair, ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula 2013 (CS2013),http://cs2013.org/
主题：Computer Science Curricula for the Coming Decade
Interest in Computer Science at the university level has fluctuated dramatically in the past 20 years. Many factors have been cited for these enrollment changes, including changes in the economy in the high-tech sector and the general image of computing. In this talk, we begin by examining some of the factors affecting enrollments in CS, analyzing both historical and current trends. In light of this analysis, we then turn our attention to curricular issues, first examining significant changes made in Stanford University's undergraduate CS program, which aim to expand the scope of education in computer science and highlight the diversity of options available in the field. We discuss the results of these changes--a near doubling in undergraduate CS enrollments in just two years--and analyze some of the reasons why. We then look at CS curriculum development more broadly, discussing the ACM/IEEE-CS joint effort to define a new Computer Science Curriculum volume by the year 2013, known as CS2013. The goal of this effort is to provide concrete curricular guidance for undergraduate CS programs at the international level for the coming decade.
In 2007, Prof. Sahami joined the Computer Science Department at Stanford University as Associate Professor (Teaching) and Associate Chair for Education. From 2001 to 2006, he also taught in the CS department at Stanford as a Lecturer. From 2002-2007, he was a full-time Senior Research Scientist at Google. After moving to Stanford, he continued to consult at Google part-time until 2010. His research interests include computer science education, machine learning, and information retrieval on the Web.
He completed my PhD in the Computer Science Department at Stanford. He was also an undergrad at Stanford. For more information, please visit Prof. Sahami’s homepage:
