Computing Professionals : Changing Needs for The 1990s.

Computing Professionals -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION AND FINDINGS -- Demand Is Fluid and Skill Requirements Are Growing -- Equality of Opportunity and the Increasingly Global Talent Pool Are Among Supply Challenges -- Dynamic Occupations Require Continuous Learning -- Better Planning Requires More and Better Data -- THE CHALLENGE OF COMBINING VIEWPOINTS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Taxonomy: Computing Professionals Are Hard to Count -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY ARE THE DATA UNSATISFYING? -- Need for Agreement on Labeling -- Need for Better Taxonomies -- THE CURRENT SITUATION -- Data on Employment -- Employment in Academic Institutions -- Data on Degree Production -- ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- 3 Demand Crosscurrents: Emerging and Disappearing Jobs -- INTRODUCTION -- FACTORS IN THE MACRO ENVIRONMENT AFFECTING DEMAND -- The Recession and Slow Recovery -- Longer-Run Factors -- Shifting National Priorities -- Globalization of Markets and Production -- New Economic Activity -- CHANGES IN COMPUTER-BASED TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS AFFECTING DEMAND -- Recent Trends and New Directions -- Implications for Occupational Demand -- Implications for Levels of Skill Required -- WHAT DO EMPLOYERS WANT? -- Differing Views from Industry and Academia -- The Emergence of Multidisciplinary Teams -- TRENDS IN DEMAND BY FUNCTION -- Research -- Academic Research -- Industrial Research -- Applications and Systems Development -- Applications and Systems Deployment -- ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- 4 Supply: Who Enters the Profession? -- INTRODUCTION -- DEGREE PROGRAMS -- Two-Year Programs -- Baccalaureate Programs -- Master's Programs -- Doctoral Programs -- FUTURE SUPPLY: PIPELINE OR AQUIFER -- Encouraging Student Interest -- Experienced Workers -- PROMOTING DIVERSITY -- Equality of Opportunity -- Minorities.

Women -- FOREIGN-BORN CITIZENS -- ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- 5 Training, Retraining, and More Retraining -- OVERVIEW -- EDUCATION CURRICULA -- TRAINING -- ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- 6 Conclusion and Next Steps -- ACKNOWLEDGING EVOLVING DEMAND -- BROADENING AND NURTURING THE TALENT STREAM -- PROVIDING FOR ONGOING TRAINING -- ACTING ON IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION -- IMPROVING THE LINKAGE BETWEEN SCHOOL AND WORK -- IMPROVING DATA GATHERING AND ANALYSIS -- NOTE -- Appendixes -- A Comparison of Data Sources and Data -- INTRODUCTION -- Data Needed to Assess Supply and Demand -- Sources of Direct Data -- Sources of Indirect Data -- Why the Data Differ -- COMPARING AVAILABLE DATA ON SUPPLY -- Bachelor's Degrees -- Master's Degrees -- Doctoral Degrees -- Number of Ph.D.s Awarded -- Demographic Characteristics of Computer Science and Computer Engineering Ph.D.s -- DATA ON THE CURRENT LABOR FORCE -- DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CURRENT LABOR FORCE -- THE FUTURE -- Data Indicators of Demand -- What We Do Not Know-and What We Need to Know-About Current Supply and Demand -- Forecasting the Future -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- B U.S. Degree Programs in Computing -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMS -- Two-Year Programs -- Baccalaureate Programs -- Master's Programs -- Doctoral Programs -- BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS -- Information Systems -- Information Science -- Computer Science -- Computer Engineering -- Software Engineering -- Computational Science -- COMPARISON OF BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS -- SUMMARY FOR TWO-YEAR AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS -- Two-Year Programs -- Graduate Programs -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- C The Demand For Human Resources and Skills in the 1990s -- THE ENVIRONMENT: GENERAL BUSINESS TRENDS -- ACADEMIA -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -- Past -- Present -- Future -- Outlook for Information Technology Investment -- Growth Areas.

Summary-Human Resources in Information Technology -- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -- Past -- Present -- Future -- New Technologies -- Solutions to Current Problems -- Applications -- End-User Productivity -- Software Development Productivity -- DEMAND IN THE UNITED STATES -- GLOBAL COMPETITION AND DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITY -- SUMMARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- D Workshop Program.

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