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Figure 2.8: The computing space occupied by CS, IS and SE (Shackelford, 2005)The ACM Education Board and the IEEE-Computer Society Educational Activities Boardoriginally commissioned a Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula to create curriculumrecommendations in several computing specialisations: CS, Computer Engineering, SE andIS (Engel and Roberts, 2001; Gorgone et al, 2002a; LeBlanc and Sobel, 2004). Shackelford(2005) provides an interesting representation of the problem space of computing (and henceaddress only computing topics within each), and suggests how each of the IT specialisationsconceptually occupies that space, focussing on what students typically do after graduation.The horizontal dimension ranges from Theory, Principles, Innovation to Application, Deployment,Configuration. The vertical dimension ranges from Computer Hardware and Architectureto Organisational Issues and Information Systems. As can be seen in Figure 2.8, each ofthe IT specialisations occupies space that overlaps as well as is distinct, with CS occupyingthe centre and left, IS the top and right and SE spanning the centre.CC-SEIn addition to effort expended to develop the SEEK, a second effort was the constructionof a set of curriculum recommendations, describing how an SE curriculum incorporating thematerial from the SEEK can be structured in various contexts.80