Computing in Schools: the state of the nation

Digital technology is everywhere. Our young people should be educated not only in the application and use of digital technology, but also in how it works, and its foundational principles. Lacking such knowledge renders them powerless in the face of complex and opaque technology, disenfranchises them from making informed decisions about the digital society, and deprives the UK of a well-qualified stream of students enthusiastic and able to envision and design new digital systems.

Computing at School: the state of the nation (330 k) Updated January 2010

Grand Challenges in Computing Research for 2010 and beyond

The call for submissions for this meeting in Edinburgh on Friday 16th April is now up on the UKCRC website. 

• See http://www.ukcrc.org.uk/grand-challenge/2010.cfm

The meeting forms part of the ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science conference 2010. 

• See www.bcs.org/visions2010

We want the whole community to be involved in this debate so please encourage all your colleagues and research students to consider submitting ideas and attending the meeting. We are soliciting radically new views of computing and the new challenges that will drive the discipline forward this year as well as reviewing the progress of existing grand challenges. Also for the first time we are including discussion of the role computing research plays in the major societal grand challenges. We plan the meeting itself to be very interactive so that every who attends will be able to take part in the discussion.

The costs of attendance for the Visions conference have been kept very low. We hope most people will attend the whole event but you have the option just to attend the Grand Challenge day. Registration is now open on the BCS website. Follow the link above

UKCRC Briefing Notes

UKCRC has produced a number of briefing notes that articulate the message that the UK Computing Research Committee wishes to communicate to various key audiences such as government and policy makers, the academic community, and the general public.

New Guidelines for Applications to UKCRC

The Membership Committee has produced new guidelines for joining UKCRC, in the form of Frequently Asked Questions. There is a new upper limit on the number of words expected in the applicant's case (up to 2000 rather than 2-300 words).