Top Issues in Computing: What are the opinion leaders saying?

Strong Opportunities and Unlimited Possibilities

• The New York Times, "Computing 2016: What Won't Be Possible?"
• Computational Thinking, Jeanette Wing, Director NSF CISE
• Georgia Tech Computing Hosts "New Face of Computing Symposium"

Declining enrollments in computing disciplines

• CRA report on HERI Study, University of California Berkeley

US workforce shortage of computing professionals, (competitiveness)

• Council on Competitiveness
• Business Roundtable

Lack of understanding of what Computing Professionals actually do

• PNLU Study
• Extraordinary Women Engineers

Negative public perceptions of computing

• BSC Nigel Shadbolt speaks, www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.7860
• CNET, "IT Employers cool on tech degrees"
• Computerworld "Time to Reinvent IT"
• IOL Technology, "Teen Tech Tormentors: What's a Parent to Do?"

Especially poor representation from women and minorities.

• NY Times, "Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold"
• NCWIT, “Women and Information Technology By the Numbers”
• CRA Testimony on the underrepresentation of women and minorities in computing, www.cra.org/Policy/testimony/lazowska-5.html
• Dept of Communications, Santa Clara University, “Portrayals of Information and Communication Technology on World Wide Web Sites for Girls”

Disconnect between what teens want and what everyone else thinks they need

• Kids and Careers 2007, Junior Achievment
• Freshman views on computer science majors, PNLU Study