1. Computer Science Curricula: Are we teaching the right things to our students? Muhammad AtifQureshi, ArjumandYounus 1 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

2. Outline Why We Raise this Question? Getting Right the Basics Bad Practices Open Source and Computer Science Rethinking the CS Curriculum Web Science: An Introduction 2 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

3. Why We Ask? Steps for improvement Identification of problems  Self-questioning Chalking out effective solutions Implementation of solutions 3 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

4. Getting Right the Basics 4 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

5. Bad Practice 1: Do Not Run After Tools 5 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

6. Bad Practice 2: Realize the True Potential of Computer Science (1/2) New York Times debate on “Computer Science Sputnik Moment” For students who want to change the world, there is no field with greater impact or leverage than computer science. Just take a look at the 2010 report by the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which characterized computer science as “arguably unique among all fields of science and engineering in the breadth of its impact.” - Dr. Ed Lazowska (Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of Washington) 6 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

7. Bad Practice 2: Realize the True Potential of Computer Science (2/2) Are we doing these sort of things? 7 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

8. Bad Practice 3: Do Not Run After Jobs If you are a Computer Scientist jobs will come to you Industry is not simply about job market Example of South Korea 8 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

9. Open Source and Computer Science Sharp learning curve Freedom to modify and play around with code Feel of Computer Science community Sense of accomplishment Do we teach polymer of a specific company in Chemistry or just a polymer? Do engineers learn engine design of a car or specifically usability of Ferrari’s engine? 9 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

10. Re-Thinking CS Curriculum (1/3) “While it is true that economy has forced the issue, Computer Science curriculum has never been attractive. It is designed for the sole purpose of producing software engineers. We should aim for more outcomes from a Computer Science curriculum. Programming is only part of the story.” - Georgia Tech Professor and Computer Science Education Expert Mark Guzdial 10 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

11. Re-Thinking CS Curriculum (2/3) To attract more students to computing we need to create more on-ramps (entry points) into the curriculum. Make the curriculum requirements more flexible. Create several CS1 (Introduction to Programming) courses to attract students with diverse interests in computing: web, multi-media, games, robotics, artificial intelligence 11 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

12. Re-Thinking CS Curriculum (3/3) A CS1 Assignment Corral Exiting/Escape Imagine a corral (an enclosed area with maze like partitions and an entrance) with a light source at the entrance (as shown in the figure to the right). Given the robot's position, can we design a behavior that will enable the robot to exit the corral? 12 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

13. Science of the Web Why we need Web Science as a research field? Because we need a systems-level understanding of the Web. – Prof. Nigel Shadbolt, One of pioneers of Web Science program, University of Southampton 13 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

14. Web Science Social and engineering dimensions (New York Times at launch of Web Science Program at Univ. of Southampton and MIT in 2006) Extends well beyond traditional Computer Science The Web isn’t about what you can do with computers. It’s people and, yes, they are connected by computers. But computer science, as the study of what happens in a computer, doesn’t tell you about what happens on the Web. –Tim Berners-Lee One of the founder of WWW 14 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

15. Which Science Explains the Web? Given Neither the Web nor the world is static The Web evolves in response to various pressures from Science Commerce The public Politics Etc. 15 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

16. Web Science The Web is a new technical and social phenomenon and a growing organism The Web needs to be studied and understood as an entity in its own right Web Science is a new field of science that involves a multi-disciplinary study and inquiry for the understanding of the Web and its relationships to us 16 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

17. Why Web Science? Dynamics and evolution The “deep (or dark) Web” Sampling, lack of complete enumeration Scale (e.g., What is the percentage of Web pages updated daily?) Search (e.g., What percentage of Web pages are indexed by search engines?) Web topology Artifacts of social interactions (blogs, etc.), Web sociology 17 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

18. What Could Scientific Theories for the Web Look Like? Every page on the Web can be reached by following less than 10 links The average number of words per search query is greater than 3 A wikipedia page on average contains 0.03 false facts The Web is a “scale-free” graph 18 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

19. Intersection of Disciplines 19 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

20. Web’s Relation with Entrepreneurship Web Science represents a pretty big next step in the evolution of information. This kind of research is likely to have a lot of influence on the next generation of researchers, scientists and most importantly, the next generation of entrepreneurs who will build new companies from this. – Eric Schmdt, Ex-CEO, Google Inc. 20 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

21. For Pakistan: Web Science and Technology Job market is heavily consumed by technology of Web solutions Remote industry such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft is heavily investing in it Business is getting a good amount of share from the Web Social Media reaches people massively than the traditional media 21 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011

22. Thank You 22 https://www.facebook.com/WebSTIBA Twitter: #csibaseminar2011