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Introduction
The Computer Science education and practice community has made clear the need to increase the size and diversity of US-trained computer science professionals (e.g., see the December 2012 special issue of ACM Inroads magazine and the formation of code.org). Computer science is intricately involved in our politics, our social lives, and our science, and its failures and successes are equally denounced (Disruptions: More Connected, Yet More Alone, New York Times, September 1, 2013) and celebrated (Stanford’s Nobel chemistry prize winner honors computer science, San Jose Mercury News, October 9, 2013). And the public is all too ready to treat software failures as indicators of larger issues at play […]
