Professionalizing the Computing Profession: A Report on the IFIP TC 8 39th Meeting of National Representatives & WCC 2008

摘要

High-profile computing failures, such as those that halted trading on the London Stock Exchange for most of Sep 8, 2008 and the 2007 crash of the US Customs and Boarder Protection system at the Los Angeles International Airport forcing more than ten thousand passengers to wait for hours before being allowed to enter the country, have caused many to call for higher professional standards including the credentialing of computing (CS, IT, IS, etc) professionals. In the US, accreditation of computing academic programs is awarded by ABET/CAC, the computing accreditation commission (CAC) of ABET, which consists of representatives from ACM, IEEE-CS and AIS. These developments to advance the professionalism of the computing profession inspired the National Representatives (NRs) of IFIP Technical Committee 8 (TC 8), Information Systems, to focus its 2008 conference on professionalizing the information systems profession through research, education, and practice (ISREP).