2020 SIGCSE Award Winners

November 20, 2019

The 2020 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education has been awarded to Professor Lauri Malmi, Aalto University School of Science, Finland.

The 2020 SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community has been awarded to Professor Alison Clear, Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand.

The 2020 SIGCSE Test of Time Award has been awarded to An object-oriented program development environment for the first programming course, authored by Professor Michael Kölling, King’s College London, UK & Professor John Rosenberg, Good Landing Consulting, Australia.

Michael Kölling and John Rosenberg. 1996. An object-oriented program development environment for the first programming course. In Proceedings of the twenty-seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE ‘96), Karl J. Klee (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 83-87. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/236452.236514

The awards for Lauri and Alison will be presented at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium being held from March 11-14, 2020 in Portland, Oregon, USA. The awards for Michael and John will be presented at ITiCSE being held from June 15-19, 2020 in Trondheim, Norway.

Congratulations to these outstanding members of the SIGCSE community!