The Computing Community Consortium is looking for help with a brainstorming exercise. Here’s what they have in mind:

Identify about a dozen game-changing advances from computing research conducted in the past 20 years. Here’s what we mean:

• The advance needs to be “game changing,”in the sense of dramatically altering how we think about computing and its applications.
• The importance of the advance needs to be obvious and easily appreciated by a wide audience.
• There needs to be a clear tie to computing research (or to infrastructure initiatives that build upon research and were sponsored by computing research organizations).
• We’re particularly interested in highlighting the impact of federally-funded university-based research.

To start the conversation, they’ve picked four examples:

• The Internet and the World Wide Web as we know them today
• Search
• Cluster Computing
• Computational Science

Agree? Disagree? Have others to suggest? You can do it all by heading to the thread on the CCC Blog and adding your two (or more) cents.