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September 15, 2006, 12:28 PM ET
Teaching Computer Scientists About Service
The phrase "service-oriented architecture" may not roll trippingly off the tongue, but it’s music to the ears of many technology and business experts. SOA, as it is abbreviated, helps computers share data and tasks among disparate applications. And many experts say it’s the key to making business computer networks more nimble and flexible.
Soon computer-science students may get more exposure to the finer points of the architecture: Georgetown University and IBM are collaborating to design SOA curricula for professionals and undergraduates, officials announced yesterday. Georgetown will get help on the project from professors at George Mason University and the College of Charleston, both of which have graduate-level computing programs that touch on SOA.
The new curricula should help prepare students for commercial IT jobs, said M. Brian Blake, an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown, at yesterday’s announcement. And it may help boost computer-science enrollment, he argued, by shredding "the perception that computer scientists are always contained within a cubicle and don’t have the perspective of a total business." —Brock Read
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