Pre-Symposium Events
In conjunction with SIGCSE 2009, groups and organizations often schedule gatherings on topics of interest to attendees who are able to arrive at the conference site a little early. This page provides some information on these activities; please follow the links provided for additional information.
Two-Day (Tuesday March 3rd and Wednesday March 4th) Events
- Studio-Based Learning in Computing Education
This two-day (Tuesday and Wednesday) event will introduce participants to the studio approach for teaching problem-solving. Topics will include facilitation of "design-crits" in both classroom and on-line settings, how to evaluate studio-based exercises, and how to conduct effective assessments of student learning.
This symposium is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Contact: Christopher Hundhausen (studiobasedlearning@gmail.com), Washington State University
Tuesday (March 3rd) Full-Day Events
- New! Think Parallel- Training Opportunity with Intel® Software College
This event, located in Plaza C of the Chattanooga Marriott, offers a day of parallelism divided into three sessions: Integrating Parallel Programming into your Curriculum, a working lunch (provided), and an Introduction to OpenMP Workshop. Session leaders will be Matthew Wolf (CERCS, Georgia Institute of Technology) and Michael Wrinn (Intel). Please click the session title link for more details.
To register: E-mail software.college.curriculum@intel.com. Please include full name, title, institution, and e-mail address, as well as which of the sessions you wish to attend.
Wednesday (March 4th) Full-Day Events
- Assessment Roundtable
Do you need to develop an assessment plan for your new course, curriculum, survey, or other initiative? This full-day roundtable can help! Particpants will help one another, with the guidance of assessment experts, develop assessment goals and plans. Continental breakfast, lunch and breaks will be provided as part of the $95 roundtable fee.
You may register for this Roundtable as part of the symposium registration process.
Contact: Lecia Barker (lecia@ischool.utexas.edu), University of Texas - Austin
- Roundtable for Department Chairs
Are you a new department chair seeking advice? Are you a current department chair looking to improve? The Roundtable for Department Chairs offers members of both audiences the chance to discuss their challenges with a group of experienced department chairs. This is a full-day session; continental breakfast and lunch are included in the $95 session fee.
You may register for this Roundtable as part of the symposium registration process.
Contact: Sandra J. DeLoatch, Head Leader (sjdeloatch@nsu.edu), Norfolk State University
(Co-leaders: Frank Friedman, Joyce Currie Little, and Dianne Martin)
- Data Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC)
The goal of this full-day event is to introduce faculty in both large and small schools to DISC concepts and tools (such as Apache Hadoop) that make DISC accessible to undergraduate students. This event was inspired by a successful three-day NSF-sponsored workshop in July of 2008. Lunch and coffee breaks will be provided.
Contact: Aaron Kimball (aaron@cloudera.com), Cloudera, Inc.
- Future of Robots in Education
Robots in Education is a full-day plenary symposium with invited speakers and paper presentation on strategies for incorporating robots into undergraduate CS curricula. A round-table discussion period and a panel of curricular experts are also planned. The paper submission deadline is Friday, December 19th, 2008.
Contact: Douglas Blank (dblank@brynmawr.edu), Bryn Mawr College
- Integrating FOSS into the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum
This symposium will include paper sessions, invited speakers, and group discussions on the study of free and open source software (FOSS) within undergraduate curricula.
This symposium is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and The Humanitarian FOSS Project.
Organizing Committee Chair: Ralph Morelli (ram@cs.trincoll.edu), Trinity College
- Managing the Academic Career for Faculty Women at Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Institutions
This event has reached its capacity. We apologize, but we are no longer accepting applications.
This event, sponsored by the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computer Science and Engineering (CRA-W), is a full-day mentoring event for women who have or are interested in academic careers in Computer Science and Engineering. The event is by invitation only; please see the full announcement for application details.
Contact: CRA-W CMW Project Director Sheila E. Castaneda (sheila.castaneda@clarke.edu), Clarke College
Wednesday (March 4th) Morning/Noon Events
- Java Technology
This session, offered by Sun Microsystems and Pearson Education, will be held from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. on March 4th in Marriott Plaza B. A complimentary lunch will be provided.
Sun Microsystems has partnered with Pearson Education on the development of new curriculum products a part of the Sun Academic Advantage Program. If you are planning to arrive early for SIGCSE, we welcome your participation. We will have a number of Sun experts on hand. We look to you to share your teaching experiences, feedback on our planned products and overall teaching insights.
If you are able to join us, please RSVP to Sun_Pearson@sun.com and indicate in your email the name of your institution as well as any Sun technologies of particular interest to you. We ask that you confirm your attendance by Monday, February 23rd.
Contact: Diana Gray (Diana.Gray@sun.com), Sun Microsystems
Wednesday (March 4th) Afternoon-Only Events
- New Teaching Faculty Roundtable (NTFR)
A new event! SIGCSE 2009 is pleased to host the inaugural New Teaching Faculty Roundtable. This afternoon event (12-5 p.m. on Wednesday) will give new teaching faculty a chance to meet other freshly-minted teaching faculty and receive advice from experienced educators. Lunch at noon is included in the $25 roundtable fee.
You may register for this Roundtable as part of the symposium registration process.
Contacts: Dan Garcia (ddgarcia@cs.berkeley.edu), UC-Berkeley, and Julie Zelenski (zelenski@cs.stanford.edu), Stanford
- BlueJ / Greenfoot Day
This half-day (1-5pm) mini-conference provides attendees the opportunity to learn about and exchange ideas with users and developers of the BlueJ and Greenfoot programming environments. Expected activities include talks, demos, discussions, presentations, and more. Visit the BlueJ / Greenfoot Day website for more details and registration information.
To register for this event (and to see the program), just click the title above.
Contact: Michael Kölling (mik@kent.ac.uk), University of Kent
- From Java to C# - How, What, and Why (sponsored by Microsoft)
This half-day pre-conference workshop (1:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Marriott Hotel Plaza Room C) is intended for Java faculty interested in learning more about the .NET platform, C#, and Visual Studio 2008. Attendees will learn C# by comparison to Java, and see how to build various types of applications using Visual Studio 2008. Attendees will understand not only C# syntax, but its underlying type system, generics, I/O, and technologies such as LINQ. If you bring a laptop with Visual Studio 2008 installed (any version supporting C#), you'll be able to participate in the workshop's hands-on exercises; those without laptops will be able to interact with the presenter as he works through the exercises on the overhead projector.
The workshop is being delivered by Joe Hummel (Lake Forest College). Joe has created and presented various workshops on .NET since 2002.
To register for this event, please visit this Microsoft event registration page.
Contact: Joe Hummel (hummel@lakeforest.edu), Lake Forest College
- Open Solaris
This session, offered by Sun Microsystems and Pearson Education, will be held from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. on March 4th in the Marriott Plaza B.
Sun Microsystems has partnered with Pearson Education on the development of new curriculum products a part of the Sun Academic Advantage Program. If you are planning to arrive early for SIGCSE, we welcome your participation. We will have a number of Sun experts on hand. We look to you to share your teaching experiences, feedback on our planned products and overall teaching insights.
If you are able to join us, please RSVP to Sun_Pearson@sun.com and indicate in your email the name of your institution as well as any Sun technologies of particular interest to you. We ask that you confirm your attendance by Monday, February 23rd.
Contact: Diana Gray (Diana.Gray@sun.com), Sun Microsystems
If you have general questions about pre-symposium activities, please contact:
Sue Fitzgerald and Mark GuzdialSIGCSE 2009 Symposium Co-Chairs
sue.fitzgerald@metrostate.edu
guzdial@cc.gatech.edu
