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Operating systems principles and undergraduate computer science curricula

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ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Volume 4, Issue 2

Pages 5 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/2579434.2579437

Published: 01 July 1972 Publication History

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In the years since 1969, the study of computer systems has assumed a role nearly equal in importance to "theory of computation" and "programming" in computer science curricula. In contrast, computer-systems was regarded as recently as 1965 as being inferior in importance to these two more traditional areas of study. This is a significant change in attitude. The harbingers of the change appear in ACM's Curriculum 68 [1], and the speed of its development is demonstrated in the report of Task Force VIII of the COSINE (Computer Sciences in Electrical Engineering) committee of the Commission on Education of the National Academy of Engineering, entitled "An Undergraduate Course on Operating Systems Principles" [2].

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cover image ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems

ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems Volume 4, Issue 2

Summer 1972

18 pages

ISSN:0095-0033

EISSN:1532-0936

DOI:10.1145/2579434

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Joseph Horner
Sunnyvale, California

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Tedre MSimon Malmi L(2018)Changing aims of computing education: a historical surveyComputer Science Education10.1080/08993408.2018.148662428:2(158-186)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2018
https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2018.1486624
Russell A(2015)ReviewsIEEE Annals of the History of Computing10.1109/MAHC.2015.8637:4(98-104)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/MAHC.2015.86
Tedre M(2014)Empirical Computer ScienceThe Science of Computing10.1201/b17764-17(187-214)Online publication date: 3-Dec-2014
https://doi.org/10.1201/b17764-17

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