Computational Thinking at Towson University

Some links and resources about computational thinking:

Academic Groups

Note that these groups have had seminar series exploring various aspects of computational thinking:

• The Center for Computational Thinking at Carnegie-Mellon University
• Computational Thinking at the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics
• DePaul University, Computational Thinking Across The Curriculum"
• U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign iCUBED: Informatics and Education Ubiquitous through Baccalaureate Education
• Duke: HarambeeNet: Social Nets in Education
• Wake Forest: Revitalizing Computer Science Education Through the Science of Digital Media

Related Papers & Presentations

• Jeanette Wing's 2006 article on computational thinking from the Communications of the ACM. Dr. Wing's slides from a Computational Thinking talk given in January 2008 provide more perspective.
• Mark Guzdial, Paving the way for computational thinking, Communications of the ACM, August 2008.
• Jeff Kramer, Is abstraction the key to computing?, Communications of the ACM, April 2007.
• George H.L. Fletcher and James J. Lu, Human computing skills: rethinking the K-12 experience, Communications of the ACM, February 2009.
• Owen Astrachan. Pander to Ponder 2009 SIGCSE Conference.
• Susanne Hambrusch, et al. A multidisciplinary approach towards computational thinking for science majors 2009 SIGCSE Conference
• Jesse M. Heines, Gena R. Greher, and Sarah Kuhn Music performamatics: interdisciplinary interaction SIGCSE 2009 Conference.
• James J. Lu and George H.L. Fletcher Thinking about Computational Thinking 2009 SIGCSE Conference.
• Hong Qin. Teaching computational thinking through bioinformatics to biology students SIGCSE 2009 Conference.
• Mark Guzdial. Teaching Computing to Everyone, Communications of the ACM, May 2009.

Other Web Sites

• The Computer Science Teachers Association has several good computational thinking pointers on their resource page.
• Peter Denning's Great Principles of Computing site describes categories and principles underlying computing.

Courses

• Matthew Stone's Fall 2006 graduate class in Computational Thinking
• Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University

Computational Thinking in Other Fields

• Dance: Klara Nahrstedt, Ruzena Bajcsy, Lisa Wymore, Renata Sheppart, Katherine Mezur Computational Model of Human Creativity in Dance Creativity
• Law: Stanford Computational Law
• Political Science: Peter T. Coleman, Robin Vallacher, Andrzej Nowak, and Lan Bue Ngoc Intractable Conflict as an Attractor: Presenting a Dynamical Model of Conflict, Escalation, and Intractability

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