38th SIGCSE TS 2007

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Proceedings	SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Dates	March 7-10, 2007
Location	Covington, KY, USA
Venue	Northern Kentucky Convention Center
Attendance	1250
Acceptance	34%
History Blog	Blog entry

Awards

2007 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

Judith Gal-Ezer

Outstanding researcher and curriculum designer who has carried out pioneering work involving teaching the essence of computer science on both the high school and university levels.

John Hughes

In memory of his forty years contribution to computing education, academic leadership and research in Australasia and internationally. He was an outstanding mentor of students and colleagues and a committed educator.

2007 ACM SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

John Impagliazzo

For extraordinary services to computing education, with particular contributions to the SIGCSE Bulletin, to international conferences on computing history, to accreditation leadership, and to curricula development.

 

Publication Acceptance Rates

	accepted	submitted	acceptance rate
papers	108	316	34%
panels	7	15	47%
special sessions	16	25	64%
workshops	35	65	54%

Key Notes

• Judith Gal-Ezer: To teach is to touch lives forever
• Grady Booch: Readn', writ'n, 'rithmetic...and code'n
• Jonathan Schaeffer: The games computers play...: perfectly

Symposium Committee

Symposium Chairs

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

Program Chairs

• J.D. Dougherty - Haverford College
• Susan Rodger - Duke University

Panels and Special Sessions

• Andrea Danyluk - Williams College

Workshops

• Nancy Kinnsersley - University of Kansas

Publications

• Gary Lewandowski - Xavier University

Registration

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

Posters

• Sue Fitzgerald - Metropolitan State University

Birds Of A Feather

• Bina Ramamurthy - University at Buffalo (SUNY)

Student Volunteers and Student Activities

• Tom Cortina - Carnegie Mellon University
• Dave Musicant - Carleton College

Treasurer

• Scott McElfresh - Carnegie Mellon University

Database Administrators

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

Evaluations

• Dick Brown - St. Olaf College

K-12 Liaison

• Leigh Ann Sudol - Fox Lane High School

International Liaison

• June Amillo - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Local Arrangements

• Charles E. Frank - Northern Kentucky University
• Joe Oldham - Centre College

Doctoral Consortium

• Orit Hazzan - Israel Institute of Technology
• Josh Tenenberg - University of Washington, Tacoma

Workshop for Department Chairs

• Frank Young - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

ACM International Student Research Contest

• Ann Sobel - Miami University of Ohio