CSAB has lost a beloved family member, David A. "Cookie" Cook. Cookie was a volunteer for 22 years, serving nearly 10 of those as a CAC/ABET commissioner representing CSAB. For the last 11 years, he was a professor of computer…
The Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) is a joint project launched by professional computing societies, including CSAB's members ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, to examine the current curricular guidelines for academic degree programs in computing, and to provide a vision…
CSAB-appointed ABET Delegate Kenneth Martin will receive the Fellow of ABET Award for sustained contributions to ABET in PEV training, governance restructuring, criteria revision, service on the Computing Area Delegation, and leading the integration of computing disciplines into ABET. Martin,…
On July 19, 2019, Mary Jane Willshire-Fairley was presented the Fellow of CSAB Award during the annual meeting of the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. Willshire-Fairley is currently CSAB Secretary-Treasurer and an appointed Board Representative of the IEEE Computer Society.…
Updated CAC/ABET criteria for accrediting information technology programs were approved by the ABET Computing Area Delegation on July 20 for public review and comment. The proposed criteria revisions are to better align with IT2017. The criteria and a feedback form…
On July 20, 2019, the ABET Computing Area Delegation approved for public review and comment program criteria for associate cybersecurity and similarly named programs. These criteria are the culmination of several years of work by CSAB and ABET, based on…
CSAB has lost one of its founders. Raymond "Ray" Miller was chair of the joint ACM and IEEE Computer Society task force that led to computing accreditation and the creation of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board in 1984. As CSAB's…
ABET's first program-specific accreditation criteria for undergraduate cybersecurity computing programs was approved by the Computing Area Delegation on November 2. This culminates more than four years of extensive work by experts from government, industry, and academia, including those who led…
Allen Parrish, Associate Vice President for Research at Mississippi State University, has been elected 2018-19 CSAB President. Parrish, an IEEE Computer Society representative, is a past Chair of the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, an ABET Fellow, and a CSAB…
ACM SIGCSE is celebrating its 50th birthday. SIGCSE was instrumental in leading the formation of CSAB and establishing accreditation in the computing disciplines. Many of our volunteers were there from the beginning. Congratulations, and cheers to 50 more years of…