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A Computer Science Education Program was designed to produce software engineers at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Merrimack Valley. This provided an opportunity to those who wanted to change careers or become more formally trained in software engineering and computer science. The program help ease the technology shift towards software and provided AT&T with skilled software engineers who were already familiar with the transmission system products. There was a deliberate tailoring of the program to meet the needs of this AT&T location. The paper provides an overview of the design, development, and results of the program, including the curriculum, administration, costs, and rewards.
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Cleaveland, J.C., MacDonald, R.W. (1989). The Computer Science Education Program at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Merrimack Valley. In: Fairley, R., Freeman, P. (eds) Issues in Software Engineering Education. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9614-7_33
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