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The last forty years have seen computer science evolve as a major academic discipline. Today the field is undergoing a major change. Some of the drivers of this change are the internet, the world wide web, large sensor networks, large quantities of information in digital form and the wide spread use of computers for accessing information. This change is requiring universities to revise the content of computer science programs. This talk will cover the changes in the theoretical foundations needed to support information access in the coming years.
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Hopcroft, J. (2008). Computer Science in the Information Age . In: Preparata, F.P., Wu, X., Yin, J. (eds) Frontiers in Algorithmics. FAW 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5059. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69311-6_2
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