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An Interdisciplinary Vision of Computer Science

Chronicle of Higher Education (08/01/08) Vol. 54, No. 47, P. A8; Foster, Andrea L.

Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing will continue to focus on establishing schools in biomedical informatics and information science, says Richard A. DeMillo in an interview. DeMillo, who is stepping down as dean, helped increase research funds by 60 percent and faculty members by 40 percent, while leading the College of Computing over the past six years. The former Hewlett-Packard CTO plans to write a book on how technology has revolutionized business, and is considering a textbook about Web science. He also wants to return to teaching, focusing on the impact of technology innovation on management, as well as on areas such as Web science. DeMillo says Georgia Tech helped attract more students to computer science. "We started redefining what computer science meant when the dot-com bust was hitting academic computer-science departments," he says. "One of our real accomplishments was to get the Computing Research Association to form a subcommittee on computing education."

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