ITICSE

Bienvenidos a Madrid! Welcome to Madrid, and to ITiCSE 2008, the 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. On behalf of the entire conference committee, which has been hard at work for over a year to put together this conference, we hope you enjoy all that the conference has to offer, as well as find some time to take in the many cultural activities that surround you in this wonderful capital city of Spain.

For those of you attending your first ITiCSE conference, a special welcome, and we hope that you enjoy the format and nature of ITiCSE and will return to ITiCSE in future years. For those of you who have attended past ITiCSE conferences, you will find all the usual features (papers, working groups, tips & techniques, posters, software demos, conference banquet, and excursions), although some rearrangement of past years' schedules has been made to accommodate the Spanish culture. Lunch is the main meal in Spain, and it is served late, so eat a hearty breakfast (and we've started the activities later in the morning than usual so you have plenty of time!). And for those of you who like statistics, we received 151 paper submissions; we only had room to accept 60 (a 40% acceptance rate).

We have three exciting and dynamic keynote speakers; one will start each day of the conference. There's a special panel session on the Future of ITiCSE, so please come and hear the ideas being considered and give your opinions. The Great European Debate will also take place -- come find out what it is!