Progress in Computational Thinking, and Expanding the HPC Community

That is what I said when I was asked whether we would ever see computer science taught in K–12. It was 2009, and I was addressing a gathering of attendees to a workshop on computational thinking (http://bit.ly/1NjmcRJ) It has been 10 years since I published my three-page "Computational Thinking" Viewpoint (http://bit.ly/1W73ekv) in the March 2006 issue of Communications. To celebrate its anniversary, let us consider how far we've come. Since the dotcom bust, there had been a steep and steady decline in undergraduate enrollments in computer science, with no end in sight.