37th SIGCSE TS 2006

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Proceedings	SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Dates	March 1-5, 2006
Location	Houston, TX, USA
Venue	Hilton Americas
Attendance	1245
Acceptance	35%
History Blog	Blog entry

Awards

2006 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

Richard Pattis

More than two decades of innovation and influence in providing thoughtful, profound, and concrete examples of teaching and thinking about algorithmic problem solving and programming.

2006 ACM SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

Joyce Currie Little

In honor of her service on the SIGCSE Board, the ACM Education Board, numerous conference committees; and for her contributions to computing in two year colleges, to certification and to professionalism in the discipline.

 

Publication Acceptance Rates

	accepted	submitted	acceptance rate
papers	104	294	35%
panels	15	26	58%
special sessions	10	28	36%
workshops	37	50	74%

Key Notes

• Richsrd Pattis: Can't sing, can't act, can dance a little: (on choosing the right dancing partners)
• Robb Cutler, Chris Stephenson: Working Together to Improve K-12 Computer Science Education
• Bill LaBarge: Make it Look real, make it look cool

Symposium Committee

Symposium Chairs

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

Program Chairs

• Ingrid Russell - University of Hartford
• Susan Haller - SUNY Potsdam

Panels and Special Sessions

• John Dougherty - Haverford College

Workshops

• Nancy Kinnersley - University of Kansas

Publications Chair

• Michael Schneider - Macalester College

Registration

• Cary Laxer, Larry Merkle and Lynn Degler - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Faculty Posters

• Dick Brown - St. Olaf College

Birds Of A Feather

• Deb Burhans - Canisius College

Student Volunteers

• Lisa Kaczmarczyk - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Pam Lawhead - University of Mississippi
• Steve Wolfman - University of British Columbia

Treasurer

• Rodney Tosten - Gettysburg College

Database Administrators

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

Evaluations

• Laurie King - Holy Cross

K-12 Liaison

• Rick Kick - Hinsdale Central High, Illinois

International Liaison

• Guido Rößling - Darmstadt Univ of Technology
• Alison Young - Unitec New Zealand

Local Arrangements

• Dung "Zung" Nguyen - Rice University
• Stephen Wong - Rice University

Doctoral Consortium

• Mark Guzdial - Georgia Institute of Technology
• Orit Hazzan - Israel Institute of Technology

ACM International Student Research Contest

• Ann Sobel - Miami University of Ohio