Students in grades 6-8 should progress to more complex computer science concepts and should learn about the people who have made computing possible to pique career interests.
If any writer defined our collective nerd future and made computing cool it was William Gibson.
He and three others from IBM founded SAP in 1972 and envisioned software that made computing fast and seamless.
The pressure is on the computer industry to find ways to make computing more efficient, since we reached the limits of energy efficiency using classical methods.
Some computer scientists have pushed ever since to make computing a central part of a liberal arts education.
The cloud's main promise is to make computing cheaper using huge economies of scale.
The effect is to make computing a hashed password very expensive for attackers.
That is an important step forward that has the potential to make computing machines much more brainlike than ever before.
The goal was to make computing more accessible and inviting to a broader range of people, Mr. Lazowska said.
"We need to make computing exciting and relevant because we have to bring more people in the door," Garcia says.
The creator of a social network for close friends and family says smart phones will make computing more intimate than PCs did.
