42nd SIGCSE TS 2011

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Proceedings	SIGCSE '11: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Dates	March 9-12, 2011
Location	Dallas, TX, USA
Venue	Sheraton Dallas Hotel and Conference Center
Theme	Reaching Out
Attendance	1187
Acceptance	34%
History Blog	Blog entry

Awards

2011 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

Matthias Felleisen

For the creation of a design-focused introductory curriculum, for educational outreach programs for K-12, and for many PhD students who continue to merge programming language research and education.

2011 ACM SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

Gordon Davies

For many years of valuable and generous service to the computing education community including contributions through active membership on international committees, working groups, and conference program committees.

Technical Symposium Best Papers

Best Paper

1. Guillaume Marceau, Kathi Fisler, and Shriram Krishnamurthi. 2011. Measuring the effectiveness of error messages designed for novice programmers. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE ‘11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 499–504.
   DOI:<https://doi.org/10.1145/1953163.1953308>

 

Publication Acceptance Rates

	accepted	submitted	acceptance rate
papers	107	315	34%
panels/special sessions	22	38	58%
workshops	35	78	45%
posters	48	66	73%
birds of a feather	36	48	75%
videos	7	10	70%

Key Notes

• Matthias Felleisen: Teach Scheme
• Susan Landau: A Computer Scientist Goes To Washington: How To Be Effective In A World Where Facts Are 10% Of The Equation
• Luis von Ahn: Three Human Computation Projects

Symposium Committee

Symposium Chairs

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

Program Chairs

• Laurie Smith King - College of the Holy Cross
• Dave Musicant - Carleton College

Panels and Special Sessions

• Pam Cutter - Kalamazoo College

Workshops

• Ruth E. Anderson - University of Washington
• Adrienne Decker - University at Buffalo (SUNY)

Publications

• Lester I. McCann - The University of Arizona

Registration

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

Posters

• Tzu-Yi Chen - Pomona College

Birds of a Feather

• Deborah Hwang - University of Evansville

Videos Coordinator

• Dennis Bouvier - Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville

Student Volunteers and Student Activities

• Brianna Morrison - Southern Polytechnic State University
• Mary Anne Egan - Siena College

Treasurer

• Scott Grissom - Grand Valley State University

Database Administrators

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

Webmaster

• Michael T. Helmick - Google

Evaluations

• Kurt Eiselt - University of British Columbia

Kids' Camp

• Kimberly Voll - University of British Columbia
• RoxAnn Stalvey - College of Charleston

Support/Exhibitor Liaison

• Susan Rodger - Duke University

K-12 Liaisons

• Stacey Armstrong - Cypress Woods High School
• Judy Hromcik - Arlington High School

International Liaison

• Tim Bell - University of Canterbury

Pre-Conference Event Liaison

• Kristine Nagel - Georgia Gwinnett College

Local Arrangements

• Jian Zhang - Texas Women's University

Student Research Competition

• Ann Sobel - Miami University (Ohio)