Special session: The CS2013 Computer Science curriculum guidelines project

The ACM/IEEE-Computer Society CS2013 Computer Science Curricula task force is working to update the previous curricular guidelines published in 2008 and 2001. The CS2013 guidelines are scheduled to be published in the latter half of 2013. This special session is devoted to exploring the guidelines with an emphasis on migrating current curricula to curricula aligned with the new guidelines. A number of significant changes from the 2008 and 2001 guidelines have been made, including the addition of new knowledge areas (including Parallel and Distributed Computing and Security and Information Assurance) as well as the reorganization and refactoring of previous areas to create a Systems Fundamentals area and a Software Development Fundamentals area. These changes are intended to identify significant changes in the computing field over the past decade, look forward to future changes, provide greater flexibility in the design and implementation of Computer Science curricula, provide stronger guidance with respect to student outcomes, and provide diverse examples of fielded curricula.