Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023): Rising to the Challenges of Change in AI, Security, and Society

Model curricula for baccalaureate computer science (CS) have been published regularly from 1968 through 2013. In early 2021, the ACM, IEEE-Computer Society, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) constituted a task force to revise these curricula, which have now been released as Computer Science 2023 Curricula (CS2023). The CS2023 curricular guidelines inform educators and administrators on the what, why, and how to cover undergraduate CS over the next decade. Like past guidelines, CS2023 provides curricular content - a knowledge model largely backward compatible with CS2013, supplemented by a competency framework influenced by Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) - and complementary curricular practices, which include articles by international experts on program design and delivery. Ongoing drafts of CS2023 were disseminated via the CS2023 website, along with regular publications or presentations at various computing education venues.

This panel focuses on three among the 17 CS2023 knowledge areas: Society, Ethics, and the Profession (SEP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Security (SEC). While the other 14 knowledge areas remain important in CS education, these three have been in the news due to inadequacies in current CS education. The panelists, who served on the CS2023 steering committee, will discuss how CS2023 addresses these challenges. Attendees will appreciate the approach taken by CS2023 toward these three hot-button items of CS education, especially constraints on curriculum design, and how CS2023 may be used to educate the next generation of CS graduates to rise to these three challenges.