Just Six Variables Personal View of Computer Education in China

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Just Six Variables - Personal View of Computer
Education in China

• CHEN Daoxu (???)
• Dept. CST, Nanjing University
• May 23, Beijing

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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

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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.
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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.)

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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

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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.
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Two Variables on Texture - 1
National Key Discipline Units Architecture
2 Software and Theory 5 Application Technology 8

• 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) AV
Information Processing(Beijing Univ.)
Intelligent Technology and Systems(Tsinghua
Univ.) etc.
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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

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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)
• Whats our dark mass?

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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

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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.
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Thank You for Your Attention!
CHEN, Daoxu Nanjing University cdx_at_nju.edu.cn