Computer science is the spine that has created continually improving R&D and distribution systems in nearly every major endeavor: e.g. science, engineering, social science, medicine, retail, aviation, and entertainment. It has given us systems, tools, and techniques to enable us to design, organize, adapt, and share knowledge and techniques. That said, the most important enterprise for the quality of people’s lives and our future – education – is not supported by a systematic, scientific R&D agenda.

  • Social Engineering helps us to use technology wedded to our social, cultural, psychological, and community-organizing sciences to create smart, compatible learning groups.
  • Research Engineering will help communities to better understand and respond to the diversity among students, teachers, and parents.
  • Knowledge Engineering grows directly from Research Engineering, and extends into the design, organization, and sharing of learning experiences.
  • Design Engineering is a subset of Knowledge Engineering.

A digital latticework that is created and maintained by in-residence computer scientists and engineers who continually evolve the system to serve the user community’s needs is fundamental to support this design work.

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