Do computer science, information systems, and software engineering professionals accept a common body of computing knowledge

Longenecker and Williams (Longenecker et al 1995) generated a common body of computing knowledge from curriculum documents for Computer Science, Information Systems, and Software Engineering. An abstraction of this body of knowledge was developed and used to survey approximately 1,000 computing professionals for their expectations for knowledge elements in the three computing programs for students graduating from four-year undergraduate universities. It is the general hypothesis of this thesis that results of the survey reveal a core of similar expectations as well as important differences for the three programs, and that computing professionals accept a common body of computing knowledge.