CCC Council chair Ed Lazowska is one of eight columnists featured in a New York Times “Room for Debate” essay series on education. Lazowska says: “There are a few facts about education, employability and economic growth that we should keep in mind. “A balanced education serves you best … “The further out you are from college graduation, the less your success is attributable to the field in which you majored, and the more your success is attributable to a set of abilities imparted by any top-tier bachelor’s-level education … “But let us not fool ourselves about what fields offer job opportunities, create jobs for others and drive the economy … […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for March 21st, 2011
