1. © Heikki Topi Briefing on Upcoming Workshop on Data Science Education ACM Education Council Denver, CO August 24-25, 2015 Heikki Topi, Bentley University Boots Cassel, Villanova University

2. Background Presentations at Ed Council meetings in 2013 and 2014 Collaboration between Boots Cassel and Heikki Topi starting at the fall 2014 Ed Council meeting Conversation between Lise Getoor and Heikki Topi based on Mehran’s introduction in the context of January 2015 Ed Board meeting Discussions at SIGCSE 2015, most importantly between Boots Cassel and Paul Tymann NSF funding decision in June 2015

3. Fundamentals Time and Place: October 2-3, 2015; Crystal City, Arlington, VA 25-30 participants representing universities actively involved in and key societies associated with data science education (including ACM, AIS, ASA, IEEE-CS, and potentially AMS) Academic disciplines represented: Computer Science, Information Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics and several scientific and organizational domains that benefit from data science Funded by NSF Award #1545135

4. Data Science: Contributing Disciplines Statistics Mathematics Information Systems Information Science Econometrics Computer Science Domain of Practice / Scientific Theme Area

5. Goals Creating an opportunity for key stakeholders in Data Science education to have a conversation on key issues in a neutral environment Improve various stakeholder groups’ understanding of each other’s actions Better understanding and articulation of the identity of Data Science, particularly in the context of related disciplines Explore the need for and the feasibility of developing curriculum guidance for Data Science programs

6. Confirmed Participants Anderson, Paul (University of Charleston) Beck, David (University of Washington) Carson, Cathryn (UC Berkeley) Cassel, Boots (Villanova University, workshop co-chair) Culler, David (UC Berkeley, CRA representative) Getoor, Lise (UC Santa Cruz) Goul, Michael (Arizona State University) Hancock, Stacey (UC Irvine) Horton, Nick (Amherst College) Jordan, Michael (UC Berkeley) Kraska, Tim (Brown University) LaLonde, Donna (American Statistical Association) Mentzer, Kevin (Bryant University, organizing team) Panoff, Robert (Shodor) Peckham, Joan (University of Rhode Island) Phillips, Jeff (University of Utah) Posner, Michael (Villanova University) Prey, Jane (ACM Education Board) Sun, Heshan (Clemson University, AIS representative) Topi, Heikki (Bentley University, workshop co-chair) Washington, Anne (George Mason University) Wilson, Jill (Northwestern University, INFORMS representative) Wixom, Barb (CISR, MIT Sloan School of Management) Representative of IEEE-CS (TBD)

7. Thank you! If you have comments or questions or are interested in the results of the conversations, please e-mail Heikki Topi (htopI@bentley.edu) or Boots Cassel (cassel@acm.org)htopI@bentley.educassel@acm.org