- Conference Chair:
- Scott Grissom,
- Program Chairs:
- Deborah Knox,
- Dan Joyce,
- Publications Chair:
- Wanda Dann
- Sponsor:
- sigcse
Welcome to Reno and the Thirty-fourth Annual Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education! Over the years, SIGCSE Symposia have become known for their level of energy, excitement, diversity, and collegiality; and your participation contributes to the richness of this event. Thank you so much for coming and sharing!A particular welcome goes to newcomers! In addition to attending the exciting range of papers, panels, special sessions, and other activities, I encourage you to introduce yourselves to those you meet (at the reception, during a lunch or break, in a nearby seat during a session, etc.). SIGCSE is often described as an extended family, and conference attendees want to get to know you.And welcome back to past attendees! As you renew old friendships, remember also to greet our newcomers. With so many activities packed into a short time, first-timers and students may appreciate your helpful guidance to work through their many exciting options.A conference the size of SIGCSE 2003 occurs only through the efforts of a very large number of people. Thanks to all those who contributed session proposals and paper submissions, those involved in reviewing, and those on the SIGCSE 2003 Committee. Special thanks to Symposium Chair, Scott Grissom, and Program Co-chairs, Daniel Joyce and Deborah Knox, for their wonderful leadership and efforts in putting all of the pieces together. Also, particular thanks to Robert Beck, Symposium Site Coordinator, who since 1997 has continued to work with ACM in identifying potential locations for SIGCSE symposia and monitoring the many details of contracting.While this annual Symposium is the largest SIGCSE conference, SIGCSE also is actively involved in several others each year. Our next SIGCSE-sponsored conference is the Eighth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), to be held June 30-July 2, 2003 at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. Other cooperating conferences are listed though a link from the "conferences" section of www.sigcse.org.
Keynote address: Expanding the audience for computer science
According to prevailing labor projections, the demand for well-trained computer scientists and software developers will continue to grow in the coming years, in spite of the dot-com collapse. For the most part, the people who fill these positions -- and ...
Unlocking the clubhouse: women in computing
We recount some of the most significant and colorful findings of our four-year study of gender issues in the undergraduate computer science program at Carnegie Mellon. We also discuss the subsequent dramatic increase in the number of women in the ...
Panel on the development, maintenance, and use of course web sites
Course Web sites are fast becoming standard features of college courses. Some students expect all their courses to have such sites, just like they expect them to have syllabi. Course Web sites help professors communicate with students and students ...
Teaching human-computer interaction: reports from the trenches
Most schools introduce HCI into the CS curriculum through a bootstrapping process. There are many excellent HCI programs at universities around the world, and some new faculty with HCI graduate degrees are starting to appear. But the extreme shortage of ...
Taking advantage of national science foundation funding opportunities
This session will highlight NSF EHR Division of Undergraduate Education and CISE Division of Experimental and Integrative Activities programs of interest to college faculty, discussing the requirements and guidelines. It will include a discussion of the ...
On serving as department chair: suggestions from veterans
Each year a small group of computer science educators are selected to become chairs of their departments. This experience is often referred to as "losing the lottery." The panelists have a different view. We believe that department chairs make important ...
The role of language paradigms in teaching programming
The purpose of this panel is to confront the wide variety of opinions on the role of language paradigms in teaching programming. We have selected four divergent opinions:
Armstrong says that concurrent programming is considered difficult because it is ...
Java in the morning...Java in the evening...Java in 2004
With the Java language replacing C++ on the 2004 AP CS Exam, teachers need to be informed about the changes that must be implemented to support an OO approach to programming. This special session will include a retrospective look at the motivation ...
Report on the NSF major educational funding initiative for a National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) with special emphasis on the Computing Education component
The NSDL consists of collections of materials accessible online, as well as many tools and services intended to enhance learning. Tools and services will support students and as well as faculty. This session will provide a status report on the state of ...
Transfer to/from computing science education: the case of science education research
During the ITiCSE 2002 conference in Århus, Denmark, a panel presentation on the topic of import to and export from Computing Science Education and other fields focused on the case of Mathematics Education Research. The outcome was very successful, with ...
Toward a K-12 computer science curriculum
This special session will report on the work of the ACM K-12 Computer Science Curriculum Committee, whose charge is to design a model curriculum for K-12 computer science that can be widely implemented. It will also gather feedback from attendees on the ...
Academic dishonesty in a high-tech environment
Advances in computing and telecommunication technology provide abundant new opportunities for academic dishonesty. Anecdotal evidence suggests that students are far more aware than faculty of various mechanisms for cheating on exams, plagiarizing ...
The role for framework libraries in CS2
The recent emergence of object-oriented framework libraries of classic data structures and algorithms such as the Standard Template Library and Java's Collection classes provides a set of general and efficient data structure components for use by ...
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIGCSE '19 | 526 | 169 | 32% |
| SIGCSE '18 | 459 | 161 | 35% |
| SIGCSE '17 | 348 | 105 | 30% |
| SIGCSE '16 | 297 | 105 | 35% |
| SIGCSE '15 | 289 | 105 | 36% |
| SIGCSE '14 | 274 | 108 | 39% |
| SIGCSE '13 | 293 | 111 | 38% |
| SIGCSE '12 | 289 | 100 | 35% |
| SIGCSE '11 | 315 | 107 | 34% |
| SIGCSE '02 | 234 | 73 | 31% |
| SIGCSE '01 | 225 | 78 | 35% |
| SIGCSE '00 | 220 | 78 | 35% |
| SIGCSE '99 | 190 | 70 | 37% |
| SIGCSE '98 | 201 | 72 | 36% |
| SIGCSE '97 | 177 | 75 | 42% |
| SIGCSE '96 | 205 | 78 | 38% |
| Overall | 4,542 | 1,595 | 35% |