The involved generation: computing people and the disadvantaged

Abstract

Motivated computer professionals all over the United States have undertaken a most special and extraordinary task: they are involving themselves in every way possible in the training of disadvantaged and educationally-deficited men and women from the so-called ghetto and poverty areas of the country. They are exhibiting a special and wonderful tension which impels them to appear at that interface between their own computing community and those underprivileged who wish to enter it.