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Just Six Variables - Personal View of Computer Education in China

Just Six Variables - Personal View of Computer Education in China. CHEN Daoxu ( 陈道蓄 ) Dept. CST, Nanjing University May 23, Beijing. Thinking in a Simple Way. A impossible task for me Give a briefing on Education and Research of Computer Science in China as a whole

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Just Six Variables - Personal View of Computer Education in China

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  1. Just Six Variables - Personal View of Computer Education in China CHEN Daoxu (陈道蓄) Dept. CST, Nanjing University May 23, Beijing

  2. Thinking in a Simple Way • A impossible task for me • Give a briefing on Education and Research of Computer Science in China as a whole • A simple approach to think about it (limited in universities) • Learn from Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal at Cambridge

  3. Just Six Numbers Rees told us: Our whole Universe is governed by just six numbers, set at the time of the Big Bang. Alter any one of them at your peril, for stars, planets and humans would then not exist.

  4. Our Small Cosmos • We look at the community of computer education in Chinese universities as a small cosmos. • What are the critical factors deciding its status and influencing its future development? (However, it is only a analogy in some sense, NOT an attemp to use results of physics in OUR field.)

  5. Two Variables on Basic Force -1 • The ratio of the strength of the force to putting things together to that of pulling them away - N • In phisical universe, being lucky, the value is extremely large (1036) • In our cosmos: • Putting together: core of THE discipline • Pulling away: rapidly expanded applications

  6. Two Variables on Basic Force - 2 • Force resisting the expansion of the cosmos -  • In physical universe(called antigravity), being lucky, the value is small and stable (0.7, guessed) • In our cosmos: • Rapid expansion in past few years • Decreasing popularity, due to real and virtual “antigravity” More than 700 universities and colleges have bechelor program in this field(in a narrow sense) with total enrollments of more than 400,000; and more than 50% with a history less than 10 years.

  7. National Key Discipline Units: Architecture: 2 Software and Theory: 5 Application Technology: 8 Two Variables on Texture - 1 • Ratio of energy emitting during mass transmuting -  • In phisical universe, being lucky, the value is small (0.007) • In our cosmos • Ratio of high-level researches results on educational activities • Hierarchical research structure in universities: national lab – national key lab – national key programs National lab for information science and technology (under construction at Tsinghua Univ.) National key labs: CAD(Zhejiang Univ.; Novel Software techniques(Nanjing Univ.); Software Engineering(Wuhan Univ.); SDE(BUAA); A&V Information Processing(Beijing Univ.); Intelligent Technology and Systems(Tsinghua Univ.) etc.

  8. Two Variables on Texture - 2 • Relative importance of smooth development and turmoil -  • In phisical universe, a unknown value wanting grasp of the relative importance of gravity and expansion energy • In our cosmos • Exploring research – for publication • Working for national goals

  9. One Variable on Identity • How does one look different from others – G • In phisical universe, a ratio not easy to be explained, with a value of 10-5 • In our cosmos • Similar goal, at least in simple view (different in level, not in contents) • What’s our “dark mass”?

  10. The Last Variable • Dimension – the character we feel directly about our universe - D • In phisical universe, no explanation needed, the value is 3 • In our cosmos • Science, Engineering and Service • Computer science, in broad or narrow sense? The problem is more important for educators than for researchers

  11. pseudo-Conclusion "To be, or not to be?" Only as one of the possibilitie: The answer depends on the values we set for the six variables.

  12. Thank You for Your Attention! CHEN, Daoxu Nanjing University cdx@nju.edu.cn

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