Curriculum 78 (Panel Discussion)
Nell B. Dale, Richard E. Austing, Lynne J. Baldwin, Lucia McKay, Mary Shaw · 1979
Mathematics has been called “the critical filter” for entrance into most scientific professions — a filter through which many female students do not pass and one which may also be screening out members of ethnic minorities. Changes in the mathematics pre-requisites for computer science courses form a major difference between Curriculum 78, the recommendations of the ACM Committee on Curriculum for the undergraduate program in computer sciences, and its predecessor, Curriculum 68.