Microsoft Press Release: Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon Establish Center for Computational Thinking: "The Microsoft Carnegie Mellon Center for Computational Thinking... represents a long-term collaboration between Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Department and will support research in emerging areas of computer science, particularly those that can influence the thinking of other disciplines.
“Increasingly, scientists and researchers rely on computer science to enable them to sift through massive amounts of data and find breakthroughs that could provide new insights into the human body, the earth we live on and even the universe,” said Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research. “We are eager to explore this exciting new area of research with Carnegie Mellon.”
"The Microsoft Carnegie Mellon Center for Computational Thinking will support research in core computer science areas using an approach called problem-oriented explorations, pioneered by Carnegie Mellon’s ALADDIN Center. Researchers from a variety of fields will address specific, real-world problems; initial topics include privacy, e-commerce, multicore computing and embedded medical devices. In addition, the center will develop and disseminate courses and curricula suitable for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as K–12 classes.
“Computer technology has rapidly transformed education, commerce and entertainment, but — more profoundly — computational thinking is transforming how new science is discovered in fields as varied as biology, astronomy, statistics and economics,” said Wing.
Source: Microsoft Press Release on Center for Computational Thinking
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