CSAB (professional organization)

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CSAB, Inc., formerly called the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board, Inc., is a non-profit professional organization in the United States, focused on the quality of education in computing disciplines. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) are the member societies of CSAB. [1] [2] The Association for Information Systems (AIS) was a member society between 2002 and September 2009. [3]

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CSAB itself is a member society of ABET, to support the accreditation of several computing (related) disciplines: [1] [2] [4]

Who is doing what: [1] [2]

History

The Computing Sciences Accreditation Board, Inc. (CSAB) was founded in 1984, with Taylor L. Booth as first president. [5] [6]

Initially, CSAB had its own accreditation commission called the Computer Science Accreditation Commission (CSAC). [2] But in November 1998 CSAB and ABET agreed to integrate CSAB's accreditation activities within ABET. [7] The result is that in 2000 a reorganized CSAB became a member society of ABET [2] and that, starting with the 2001-2002 cycle, a merged and renamed CSAC operates as the fourth commission of ABET: the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC). [8] [9]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "2010 CAC Institutional Representatives' Day Presentation, p15-16: CSAB Inc" (PDF). ABET. July 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-24. Retrieved 2010-09-15. Presentation found on ABET Presentations Archived September 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine .
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