1. Technology and Literacy: Birmingham and Alabama Jeff Gray, Ph.D. Associate Professor UAB – CIS Department gray@cis.uab.edu http://www.cis.uab.edu/gray

2. Software is Everywhere Think of some of the things that entertain and enrich your daily life All of the above are driven by software Software developers equipped with a computer science degree have opportunities to work on exciting and cutting-edge projects

3. Software is Everywhere 98% of all microprocessors control devices other than desktop computers –Automobiles, airplanes, televisions, copiers, razors… These devices also need software and often require strong technical skills to develop >10Mb embedded software 15-20Kb 1-1.5Mb > 1M SLOC

4. Meteoric Opportunities February 15, 2005: Domain registered (youtube.com) Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steve Chen Around 25 years old at this time November 2005: Official Debut 100 Million Clips viewed daily; 65,000 uploads per day 20 Million visitors each month October 2006: Time Magazine Invention of the Year Great Talk: From Concept to HyperGrowth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssfmTo7SZg October 6, 2006: Google purchased for $1.65B

5. Alabama Technology Leaders Jimmy Wales Wikipedia Founder Huntsville Native The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Since its creation in 2001, nearly 10 million articles in over 250 languages. Over 680 million visitors each year; 75,000 active contributors.

6. The Demand for Computer Scientists Offshore hysteria: Many companies with high paying jobs within the US are unable to fill positions with computer scientists. Source: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/top50/index.html

7. The Demand for Computer Scientists Computer Science occupations are projected to grow twice as fast as the average for all occupations. Source: http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2007/fall/art02.pdf Between 2006-2016 a projected 822,000 new jobs will be available in Computer Science occupation areas in the United States alone.

8. The Demand for Computer Scientists Source: http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2007/fall/art02.pdf Among the fastest growing occupations, software engineers had the highest median annual salary - $79,780.

9. The Demand for Computer Scientists Source: IEEE Spectrum, August 2008 Computer science has the highest engineering salary and the fastest growing salary increase.

10. The Demand for Computer Scientists According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, 5 of the top-10 growing jobs have a computer science focus. (Reprinted with Permission from onInvesting)

11. The Demand for Computer Scientists National Job Outlook –$56,921 is the average starting salary for computer science degrees in the class of 2008 (among top 3 highest starting salaries); 7.9% increase over 2007 offers Recent Birmingham Software Success Story –Founder: Dr. Stephen Brossette, UAB CIS Graduate –Director of Systems Engineering: Dr. Daisy Wong, UAB CIS Graduate –Estimated $100M acquisition price –179% growth – tops among Birmingham companies # hospitals using MedMined 265 # of Admissions 21,940,099 # of Patient days 78,483,384 # of Microbiology Specimens 26,753,304

13. The Potential for Alabama Source: Entrepreneur magazine http://www.entrepreneur.com/bestcities/midsize.html

14. The Potential for Alabama Per capita, Huntsville is one of the top five cities in the US with concentration of software developers, and #1 in terms of total engineers. Cummings Research Park is the second largest in the United States and the fourth largest in the World. Huntsville

15. Myth of Computer Science Education According to the Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX) 1, computing is equated to learning Microsoft Word and various mechanical tasks; this is not Computer Science! 1 http://alex.state.al.us/standardAll.php?grade=9&subject=TC&summary=2

16. Number of schools passing AP CS audit Computer Science in Alabama StateNumber of Schools Alabama3 (out of > 460) Tennessee16 South Carolina18 North Carolina28 Florida69 Georgia78 New Jersey133 California165 Texas271

17. Number of students taking AP CS exams Georgia’s Success Story State20012007 Georgia 69 CS A exams 422 CS A exams 15 CS AB exams107 CS AB exams Alabama 22 CS A exams 27 CS A exams 12 CS AB exams7 CS AB exams

18. High School Outreach at UAB CIS Mentoring for Science Fair CompetitionsSummer Camps Weekly mentoring at UAB throughout academic year; students treated like a PhD student with office space www.cis.uab.edu/gray/Pubs/jerrod-sutton.pdf www.cis.uab.edu/progams/camps www.cis.uab.edu/heritage www.cis.uab.edu/progams/hspc www.cis.uab.edu/progams/alice-festival Programming Contest and Alice Festival 5 weeks High School (June/July); 2 Weeks Middle School (July) Tuition Scholarships Available Taught by UAB Faculty Topics include Java, robotics, graphics, game programming, scientific computing In 2007, over 45 students attended from 4 different states May 2008 2007: 46 students from 12 schools (Huntsville to Mobile) 6 problems in 3 hours Prizes: Laptop, Xbox, software, books, gift certificates Alice Film Festival!

19. K-12 Outreach at UAB CIS Field Trips to the CIS DepartmentLectures for Technology Clubs 3-hour tour of the CIS department: Several topical lectures Over 150 students in Fall 2006 Free Pizza lunch! http://www.cis.uab.edu/field-trips Alabama K-12 Workshop http://www.cis.uab.edu/programs/hsws/ July 31, 2006; 16 state- wide participants Purpose: To discuss critical issues needed to raise awareness of computing in Alabama schools. Dual/Concurrent Enrollment CIS faculty are available to give topical lectures to classes; if interested, faculty can help bootstrap a club Opportunity to earn college credit in the summer by taking the CIS 201 course (Intro to Java) 3-4 students each summer Potential tuition waiver in some cases Greatly speed up mentoring experience Prepare students for programming contest next May “Concurrent/Dual” enrollment http://www.cis.uab.edu/cs201

20. How this relates to the XO EToys: A Squeak-based Programming Environment Pippy: Python Programming All of these provide real programming environments on the XO Students are taught how to be technology developers…in a fun way! Initiates the pipeline for technology exploration throughout K-12 Scratch: Visual Programming

21. $1,080,000 from National Science Foundation In collaboration with Birmingham City Schools –UAB CORD, Computer Science, Mathematics, Education, and Mechanical Engineering Three-year engagement of 60 students per year –10 th grade: Game Programming with Alice; Linear algebra –11 th grade: Java and Robotics; Advanced mathematics –12 th grade: Computer Visualization; Science fair project –Teachers: Training of BCS teachers in parallel with student camps Seeking students and teachers for Fall08/Summer09 ALADDIN Drawing the GENIEous out of the kid emPowering the next generation for information technology