36th SIGCSE TS 2005

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Proceedings	SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Dates	February 23-27, 2005
Location	St. Louis, MO, USA
Venue	Cervantes Convention Center
Attendance	1245
Acceptance	32%
History Blog	Blog entry

Awards

2005 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

Kim Bruce

Innovative teaching methods, textbook authorship. Leadership in Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium and its curricular recommendations to Curriculum 91 and Curriculum 2001.

2005 ACM SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

Andrew McGettrick

For outstanding service and direction to the computing community in the UK and abroad. Member ACM Education Board, membership and significant influence on CC2001 final report, author of Report on Benchmark Levels for Computing, November 2000 Report on Benchmark Levels for Computing.

 

Publication Acceptance Rates

	accepted	submitted	acceptance rate
papers	104	330	32%
panels	10	21	48%
special sessions	14	24	58%
workshops	37	57	65%
faculty posters	49	51	96%

Key Notes

• Kim Bruce: Using Abstractions to Make Concepts Concrete
• Mordechai Ben-Ari: The Concorde Doesn't Fly Anymore
• Maria Klawe: Increasing the Number of Women Majoring in Computer Science: What Works?

Symposium Committee

Symposium Chairs

• Wanda Dann - Ithaca College
• Tom Naps - University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

Program Chairs

• Douglas Baldwin - SUNY at Geneseo
• Paul Tymann - Rochester Institute of Technology

Panels and Special Sessions

• Susan Rodger - Duke University

Workshops

• Myles McNally - Alma College

Publications

• John Dougherty - Haverford College

Registration

• Cary Laxer, Frank Young, and Larry Merkle - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Faculty Posters

• Bonnie McVey - St. Norbert College

Birds Of A Feather

• Don Goelman - Villanova University

Student Volunteers and Student Activities

• Pam Lawhead - University of Mississippi
• Constance Bland - University of Mississippi

Treasurer

• Scott Grissom - Grand Valley State University

Database Administrators

• Henry Walker - Grinnell College
• John Dooley - Knox College

Evaluations

• Cathy Bareiss - Olivet Nazarene University

K-12 Liaison

• Rick Kick - Hinsdale Central High, Illinois

International Liaison

• Guido Rößling - Darmstadt Univ of Technology

Local Arrangements

• Dennis Bouvier - St. Louis University

Doctoral Consortium

• Mark Guzdial - Georgia Institute of Technology
• K. Todd Stevens - Radford University

ACM International Student Research Contest

• Ann Sobel - Miami University of Ohio