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Participation in Computing

The National Science Foundation’s Expansionary Programs

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Authors:
  1. William Aspray

    1. School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

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  • Examines the unexplored history of the NSF, an important player in US computer history
  • Highlights the role of the federal government and professional nonprofit organizations in the history of computing
  • Details efforts made to address the problem of the shortage of computing labor in the United States

Part of the book series: History of Computing (HC)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • William Aspray
    Pages 1-12

  3. Opening Computing Careers to Underrepresented Groups

    • William Aspray
    Pages 13-52

  4. The Broadening Participation in Computing Alliances

    • William Aspray
    Pages 53-102

  5. Recent Efforts to Broaden Formal Computer Science Education at the K-12 Level

    • William Aspray
    Pages 103-145

  6. Recent Efforts to Broaden Informal Computer Science Education

    • William Aspray
    Pages 147-163

  7. Conclusions

    • William Aspray
    Pages 165-178

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 179-200
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About this book

This book provides a history of the efforts of the US National Science Foundation to broaden participation in computing. The book briefly discusses the early history of the NSF's involvement with education and workforce issues. It then turns to two programs outside the computing directorate (the ADVANCE program and the Program on Women and Girls) that set the stage for three programs in the NSF computing directorate on broadening participation: the IT Workforce Program, the Broadening Participation in Computing program, and the Computing Education for the 21st Century program. The work looks at NSF-funded research and NSF-funded interventions both to increase the number of women, underrepresented minorities (African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians) and people with disabilities, and to increase the number of public schools offering rigorous instruction in computing. Other organizations such as the ACM, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and Code.org are also covered.The years covered are primarily 1980 to the present.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    William Aspray

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Participation in Computing

  • Book Subtitle: The National Science Foundation’s Expansionary Programs

  • Authors: William Aspray

  • Series Title: History of Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24832-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79685-7Published: 09 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24832-5Published: 01 March 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2190-6831

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-684X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Computing, Science Education

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