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The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), first administered in 1937, were initiated as a joint venture of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the graduate school deans of four eastern United States universities. When Educational ...

The word “innovative” in the title of this paper does not imply that the colleges involved have found or invented some new computer technology to apply to instruction and research. If the word innovative in appropriate at all, it applies to the way we ...

Xavier shares at least six characteristics with other developing institutions. some of which are not shared by all: private small, predominantly black, liberal arts-oriented, church-related, and serving a large percentage of disadvantaged students. ...

The purpose of the discussion that follows is to shed some light on the mystical process of buying a computer. The problem of computer acquisition is often approached from a very rational, very scientific perspective with lots of charts, graphs, ...

To enable students and researchers to concentrate on individual primitives, an operating system is designed with replaceable program parts. In particular, classroom and individual study projects may be assigned which give the students actual practice ...

Historically, the teaching of systems programming has been undertaken using a variety of techniques. In order to provide students with the best possible learning experience, an approach which allows the students “hands-on” experience on some computer ...

This paper describes the use of the Chief Programmer Team method in an operating systems class to implement a subset of a multiprogramming operating system. The operating system consisted of elements of Job Management, Task Management, and Data ...

One issue which is not often stressed, or even addressed, in Computer Science Curriculums is that of problem solving. Since problem solving is an essential activity in the construction of programs as well as other computer science pursuits, the omission ...

This paper discusses an automatic tutor of programming, implemented on the PLATO IV CAI system [1] as a part of an automated instructional system for computer science being developed at the University of Illinois [8]. This tutor exposes the introductory ...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the instructional programs needed to prepare prospective public school administrators for today's technological decisions. Most states require public school administrators to obtain an administrator's ...

Computer applications and computer science education for developing nations have received little attention in developed countries, largely because we are naturally interested in first putting our own house in order. This paper is first intended to call ...

It is generally accepted that a course in discrete structures such as Course B3 in Curriculum 68 recommendations [1] is an important part of a Computer Science program. In many institutions a Discrete Structures course is offered in the Computer Science ...

Two recent ACM reports have been published suggesting curricula for undergraduate education in Computer and Information Sciences. These reports have provided the basis of a new major program, the Computer Coordinate Major, recently established at ...

At Hunter College, the B.A. degree in Computer Science was the work of two people, whose goals were to provide a high quality degree, with as much choice of program specialization as possible under the constraints imposed by Hunter. It was felt that the ...

The following paper presents the views, observations and concerns of an educator working in the field of information and data processing. The primary comments and suggestions are directed toward the academic community although suggestions and goals are ...

An approach is described for introducing practical work experience into an undergraduate computer science curriculum. This approach differs from others which have been reported in that it is not necessary for the student to make any arrangements for ...

There has been a continuing discussion in the SIGCSE Bulletin over the “gap” between the subject matter and methodology of Computer Science curricula and the needs of industry (1, 2, 3, 7, 8). There have been both denials that a gap exists, and ...

At the Conference on Programming Methodology in January 1974 at Albuquerque, New Mexico Prof. Edsger Dijkstra described a method of program development in which the imperative form of a program is developed from the assertions which form the correctness ...

This paper describes a practicum-seminar course which the author taught at the University of Colorado during the spring and summer of 1974. This course contained a number of salient features which made it an interesting experiment and a unique learning ...

We feel that for a long time introductory computer science courses have degenerated into courses more appropriately titled “Introduction to the Programming Language X” where X has historically been FORTRAN or BASIC and more recently PL/I or APL. In this ...

This paper describes a graduate Computer Science course in which all aspects of the programming process are examined.

The course has been taught for the past three years, and represents an attempt to pull together various results of researchers working ...

My text this morning comes from a highly regarded German algebraist of the nineteenth century, Leopold Kronecker. He was engaged in a vigorous debate with other mathematicians on exactly this question, what are the foundations of mathematics? What set ...

After joint discussions between the House and the Senate, a bill authorizing the creation of Federal City College (and the Washington Technical Institute) was signed into law in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as Public Law 89-791.

The Federal City ...

Tuskegee Institute installed an IBM 1620 in October 1961. Over the next several years as demand required, the system was expanded from the original 20K to 60K then to disk. The original acquisition was made possible with a NSF grant.

in June 1972, with ...

Marvin Kornbluh

Industry today is looking for creative systems analysts and programmers who can develop physical systems on the basis of sound business judgement rather than merely increasing the level of sophistication. They need “entrepeneurs” - those ...

In an effort to lower the rate of attrition of Engineering students, during the early years of their education, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has instituted a series of two freshman engineering courses which are designed to motivate and retain ...

The Computer Program Library, a compilation of computer programs coded in FORTRAN and executed in the batch mode, facilitates both direct and adjunct use of the computer by students. A six year project, the library now contains over 290 fully-documented ...

This paper describes a course entitled “Computers in the Humanities and Social Science” given at a small liberal arts college. The basic purpose of the course was to provide the student with knowledge about how a computer could be used in various fields ...

A review is given of the current situation in two-year institutions with data-processing course offerings. There are three types of students, “transfer,” “occupational,” and “optional,” whose needs must be satisfied by any curriculum. The author ...

In the past decade many two-year colleges have developed and implemented various curricula in Data Processing and/or Computer Science. These programs grew out of existing vocational needs for computer operators, data prepares, EAM equipment operators ...