41st SIGCSE TS 2010

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Proceedings	SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Dates	March 10-13, 2010
Location	Milwaukee, WI, USA
Venue	Midwest Airlines Center
Theme	Making Contact
Attendance	1176
Acceptance	34%
History Blog	Blog entry

Awards

2010 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

Sally Fincher

For outstanding contributions to computing education research and inspiring a generation of computing education researchers.

2010 ACM SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

Peter J. Denning

For forty years of exceptional service in industry and academia that stimulated a combined synergy which promoted educational excellence in software engineering and computing curricula.

 

Publication Acceptance Rates

	accepted	submitted	acceptance rate
papers	103	303	34%
panels/special sessions	24	47	51%
workshops	39	86	45%
posters	48	88	55%
birds of a feather	31	42	74%
videos	11	14	79%

Key Notes

• Sally Fincher: Useful Sharing
• Carl Wieman: Initiatives Science Education for the 21st Century: Using the Insights of Science to Teach/Learn Science
• Michael Wrinn: Suddenly, All Computing Is Parallel: Seizing Opportunity Amid the Clamor

Symposium Committee

Symposium Chairs

• Gary Lewandowski - Xavier University
• Steven Wolfman - University of British Columbia, Canada

Program Chairs

• Thomas Cortina - Carnegie Mellon University
• Ellen Walker - Hiram College

Panels and Special Sessions

• Laurie Smith King - College of the Holy Cross

Workshops

• Ruth E. Anderson - University of Washington
• Lisa Kaczmarcyk - University of California, San Diego

Publications Editor

• Dave Musicant - Carleton College

Registration

• Cary Laxer and Lynn Degler - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Larry Merkle - Wright State University

Posters

• Carl Alphonce - The University at Buffalo

Birds Of A Feather

• Tzu-Yi Chen - Pomona College

Videos Coordinator

• Dennis Bouvier - Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville

Student Volunteers and Student Activities

• RoxAnn Stalvey - College of Charleston
• Brianna Morrison - Southern Polytechnic State University

Treasurer

• Scott McElfresh - Carnegie Mellon University

Database Administrator

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

Webmaster

• Michael T. Helmick - Amazon.com

Evaluations

• Lester I. McCann - The University of Arizona

Kids' Camp

• Kristine Nagel - Georgia Gwinnett College
• Kimberly Voll - University of British Columbia

Support/Exhibitor Liaison

• Susan Rodger - Duke University

K-12 Liaison

• Jill Pala - Girls Preparatory School

International Liaison

• Lynda Thomas - Aberystwyth University

Local Arrangements

• Dennis Brylow - Marquette University
• Mohsen M. Dorodchi - Cardinal Stritch University
• Andrew Kuemmel - Madison West High School

Student Research Competition

• Ann Sobel - Miami University (Ohio)