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Fixing the ICT Crisis at School
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Summary
Simon Peyton Jones discusses the need for a decent education system in IT and computer science, advocating for taking action now before it is too late.
Bio
Simon Peyton Jones is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft's Research Lab in Cambridge, and a visiting professor at Glasgow University. He is Chair of the UK Computing at School Working Group, whose goal is to put the excitement and rigor of computing science back into the school curriculum. Twitter: @simonpj0 Websites: http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj
About the conference
Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.
Mar 29, 2013