43rd SIGCSE TS 2012

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Proceedings	SIGCSE '12: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Dates	February 29 - March 3, 2012
Location	Raleigh, NC, USA
Venue	Raleigh Convention Center
Theme	Teaching, Learning, and Collaborating
Attendance	1286
Acceptance	35%
History Blog	Blog entry

Awards

2012 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

Harold (Hal) Abelson

For improving not only the way we teach computing by his contributions to Logo, App Inventor, and his textbook authorship but also the way we view knowledge in the broader society, through his leadership with the Free Software and Open Educational Resources movements and his founding efforts with the Creative Commons initiative.

2012 ACM SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

Jane Prey

For her love of and dedication to the computing education community -- academic, industry, government and professional societies; and for her tireless efforts in encouraging more students, especially women, to pursue education and careers in computing.

Technical Symposium Best Papers

Best Paper

1. Jeremy Andrus and Jason Nieh. 2012. Teaching operating systems using android. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ‘12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 613–618.
   DOI:<https://doi.org/10.1145/2157136.2157312>

 

Publication Acceptance Rates

	accepted	submitted	acceptance rate
papers	100	289	35%
panels/special sessions	24	53	45%
workshops	36	78	46%
posters	48	109	44%
birds of a feather	36	46	78%

Key Notes

• Fred Brooks: The Teacher's Job is to Design Experiences; not Primarily to Impart Information
• Hal Abelson: From Computational Thinking to Computational Values
• Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg: Through the Looking Glass: Talking about the World with Visualization

Symposium Committee

Symposium Chairs

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

Program Chairs

• Tracy Camp - Colorado School of Mines
• Paul Tymann - Rochester Institute of Technology

Panels and Special Sessions

• Chuck Leska - Randolph Macon College

Workshops

• Adrienne Decker - Rochester Institute of Technology
• Lester I. McCann - The University of Arizona

Publications

• Brad Miller - Luther College

Registration

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

Posters

• Kris Nagel - Georgia Gwinnett College

Birds of a Feather

• Olaf Hall-Holt - St. Olaf College

Student Volunteers and Student Activities

• Mary Anne Egan - Siena College
• Steven Huss-Lederman - Beloit College

Treasurer

• Scott McElfresh - Wake Forest University

Publicity/Social Networking

• Kimberly Voll - The University of British Columbia

Database Administrators

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

Webmaster

• Michael T. Helmick - Google

Evaluations

• Carl Alphonce - University at Buffalo, SUNY

Kids' Camp

• Susan Fox - Macalester College
• Sarah Monisha Pulimood - The College of New Jersey

Support/Exhibitor Liaison

• Susan Rodger - Duke University

K-12 Liaisons

• John Harrison - Princess Ann High School

International Liaison

• Catherine Lang - Swinburne University

Pre-Conference Event Liaison

• Briana Morrison - Southern Polytechnic State University

Local Arrangements

• Sarah Heckman - NC State University

Student Research Competition

• Ann Sobel - Miami University (Ohio)