Building the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Broad multidisciplinary computing is transforming our modern life in many aspects,and computer science itself is also broadening.In response to these trends,the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)recently built a new college,the Schwarzman College of Computing.The missions of the College are to support rapid growth of computing fields,facilitate computing collaborations across departments and disciplines,and to focus on social,ethical,and policy issues in computing.This paper begins by introducing the history and design of the Schwarzman College.Then,it discusses the new opportunities that the College of computing has created at MIT,specifically the common ground for computing education and the social and ethical responsibilities of computing programs.