46th SIGCSE TS 2015

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Proceedings	SIGCSE '15: Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Dates	March 4-7, 2015
Location	Kansas City, MO, USA
Venue	KC Convention Center/Marriott Downtown
Theme	Keep Connected, Keep Committed, Keep Computing
Attendance	1318
Acceptance	36%
Website	http://sigcse2015.sigcse.org/
History Blog	Blog entry

Awards

2015 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

Mark Allen Weiss

For authoring textbooks that have had a profound impact on generations of students and for invaluable service to the computer science education community.

2015 ACM SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

Frank Young

For over 40 years of service to the computing education community that exemplifies the term "lifetime service" and for serving as a role model and mentor to generations of students and faculty.

Technical Symposium Best Papers

Best Paper

1. Celine Latulipe, N. Bruce Long, and Carlos E. Seminario. 2015. Structuring Flipped Classes with Lightweight Teams and Gamification. In Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ‘15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 392–397.
   DOI:<https://doi.org/10.1145/2676723.2677240>

 

Publication Acceptance Rates

	accepted	submitted	acceptance rate
papers	105	289	36%
panels	10	18	56%
special sessions	13	25	52%
workshops	30	71	42%
posters	51	117	44%
birds of a feather	38	55	69%
demos	10	32	31%
lightning talks	11	26	42%

Key Notes

• Jessica Hodgins: Educating for Both Art and Technology
• Frank H. Young: Paying Back and Paying Forward
• Mark Allen Wiess: Data Structures Courses: Past, Present, and Future
• Keith N. Hampton: Connected, Committed and Social?: The Consequences of Computing for Relationships

Symposium Committee

Symposium Chairs

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

Program Chairs

• Jodi Tim - Baldwin Wallace University
• Carl Alphonce - University at Buffalo

Panels and Special Sessions

• Peter DePasquale - The College of New Jersey

Workshops

• Paul Carter - University of British Columbia
• Alvaro Monge - California State University, Long Beach

Registration

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

Posters

• Michelle Craig - University of Toronto

Birds of a Feather

• Ria Galanos - Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

Student Volunteers and Student Activities

• Pam Cutter - Kalamazoo College
• Sarah Heckman - North Carolina State University
• Sara Melnick - Bronx Academy for Software Engineering

Lightning Talks and Demos

• Mike Helmick - Google Inc.

Publications

Treasurer

• Paul Tymann - Rochester Institute of Technology

Database Administrators

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

Webmaster

• Matt Jadud - Berea College

Evaluations

• Steve Cooper - Stanford University

Kids' Camp

• Cheryl Seals - Auburn University
• Valerie Henderson Summet - Emory University

Publicity/Social Media

• Briana Morrison - Southern Polytechnic State University

Support/Exhibitor Liaison

• Tom Cortina - Carnegie Mellon

David Musicant - Carleton College

K-12 Liaisons

• RJ Drake - kansas State Department of Education

International Liaison

• Paul Denny - University of Auckland

Pre-Conference Event Liaison

• Brian Dorn - University of Nebraska Omaha

Local Arrangements

• Brian Hare - University of Missouri Kansas City

Student Research Competition

• Ann Sobel - Miami University (Ohio)