45th SIGCSE TS 2014

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Proceedings	SIGCSE '14: Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Dates	March 5-8, 2014
Location	Atlanta, GA, USA
Venue	Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Theme	Leveraging Computing to Change Education
Attendance	1285
Acceptance	39%
Website	http://sigcse2014.sigcse.org/
History Blog	Blog entry

Awards

2014 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

Robert Panoff

For promoting student enrichment, curriculum development, faculty enhancement, and infusing computational thinking at all levels through Shodor and the National Computational Science Institute.

2014 ACM SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

Andrea Lawrence

For dedication to the computing education community, serving as a role model and mentor to students and faculty, improving diversity in computing education, making computing education available to everyone, and for helping students and faculty to "Find a way or make one".

Technical Symposium Best Papers

Best Paper

1. Claudia Szabo. 2014. Student projects are not throwaways: teaching practical software maintenance in a software engineering course. In Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE ‘14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 55–60.
   DOI:<https://doi.org/10.1145/2538862.2538965>

 

Publication Acceptance Rates

	accepted	submitted	acceptance rate
papers	108	274	39%
panels	14	23	61%
special sessions	12	16	75%
workshops	35	75	49%
posters	56	122	46%
birds of a feather	37	52	71%

Key Notes

• Robert Panoff: Computational Thinking for All: the Power and the Peril
• Hadi Partovi: Transforming US Education with Computer Science
• AJ Bernheim Brush: Lab of Things: a Devices Teaching and Research Platform for Home and Beyond

Symposium Committee

Symposium Chairs

• J.D. Dougherty - Haverford College
• Kris Nagel - Georgia Gwinnett College

Program Chairs

• Adrienne Decker - Rochester Institute of Technology
• Kurt Eiselt - University of British Columbia

Panels and Special Sessions

• Stephen Cooper - Stanford University

Workshops

• Susan Haller - SUNY Potsdam
• Paul Carter - University of British Columbia

Registration

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

Posters

• Michael T. Helmick - University of Cincinnati

Birds of a Feather

• Marc Rubin - Colorado School of Mines

Student Volunteers and Student Activities

• Steven Wolfman - University of British Columbia
• Pam Cutter - Kalamazoo College
• Sara Melnick - Bronx Academy for Software Engineering

Accessibility

• Raghuram Ramanujan - Davidson College

Treasurer

• Scott McElfresh - Longwood University

Database Administrators

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

Webmaster

• Kimberly Voll - Centre for Digital Media
• Michael T. Helmick - University of Cincinnati

Evaluations

• Carl Alphonce - University at Buffalo

Kids' Camp

• James Maher - Colorado School of Mines
• Cheryl Seals - Auburn University

Publicity/Social Media

• Jamie Spacco - Knox College

Support/Exhibitor Liaison

• Susan Rodger - Duke University
• Tom Cortina - Carnegie Mellon

K-12 Liaisons

• Crystal Furman - Brookwood High School

International Liaison

• Annemieke Craig - Deakin University

Pre-Conference Event Liaison

• Mary Anne Egan - Siena College

Local Arrangements

• Deepa Muralidhar - North Gwinnett High School

Student Research Competition

• Ann Sobel - Miami University (Ohio)