Computer Science Curriculum Developments in the USA in the 1960s

The discipline of Computer Science (CS) was born in the early 1960s when a number of universities started teaching courses in the new discipline. A number of important conferences held during the 1960s to discuss the nature of CS and whether CS programs should be offered in universities culminated in the development of the ACM Curriculum 68. Curriculum 68 was very influential in providing direction to academics who were struggling to support or introduce a CS program in their universities and appears to have been widely used. This paper discusses the curriculum efforts in the USA in the 1960s and reviews papers on CS education published during the period.