SIGCSE 2007
Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education March 7-10, 2007
Northern Kentucky Convention Center and Cincinnati Marriott at RiverCenter
Covington, Kentucky, USA

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SIGCSE 2007 Program-at-a-Glance

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 • http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/ Home Page
 • Program listing by title for all sessions.
 • Program listing by presenter for all sessions.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007  8:30 AM to 5:30 PM
 
Location:
Meeting Rm 1
Doctoral Consortium
 
Wednesday, March 7, 2007  8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
 
Location:
Meeting Rm 3
Workshop for Department Chairs
 
Wednesday, March 7, 2007  8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
 
Location:
Meeting Rm 2
CRA-W Workshop
 
Wednesday, March 7, 2007  7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Workshops: Room:
As Assigned
Workshops 1-10
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  12/30/1999 8:30 AM to 12/30/1999 10:00 AM
 
Location:
Ballroom A-C
Judith Gal-Ezer
2007 SIGCSE Award Winner for Outstanding Contributions for CS Education
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
Coffee Break & Exhibits
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  10:30 AM to 11:45 AM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
NSF Showcase
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  10:30 AM to 11:45 AM
Panel Session: Room:
Ballroom A
Teaching Tips We Wish They'd Told Us Before We Started
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom B
Learning Solutions for the First Year
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom C
Recruitment and Retention of Computing Students
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom D
Artificial Intelligence
Vendor Session: Room:
Ballroom E
Vendor Session: Sun "Enhance Operating System Education Using OpenSolaris"
Special Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 1-3
Funding Opportunities in Computer Science Education at The National Science Foundation
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 4-5
Web-based Technologies
Panel Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 6-8
Mechanics of Undergraduate Research at Liberal Arts Colleges – Lessons Learned
Thursday, March 8, 2007  12/30/1999 11:45 AM to 12/30/1999 2:00 PM
 
Location:
Marriott - Ballroom/Prefunction
First Timers' Lunch
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  11:45 AM to 2:00 PM
 
Location:
On your own.
Lunch
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
Student Research Poster Session
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  2:00 PM to 3:15 PM
Panel Session: Room:
Ballroom A
New Paradigms for Introductory Computing Courses
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom B
Teaching with Tablets and Inking Technologies
Special Session: Room:
Ballroom C
Status Report on the SIGCSE Committee on Models for Evaluating Faculty Scholarship
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom D
Activities and Tools for Course management
Vendor Session: Room:
Ballroom E
Vendor Session: Microsoft "Gaming in CS"
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 1-3
Integrating Mathematics and Computer Science
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 4-5
Engagement via Games
Panel Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 6-8
UML Tools: What is their Role in Undergraduate Computer Science Courses?
Thursday, March 8, 2007  3:15 PM to 4:00 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
Coffee Break & Exhibits
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  4:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Panel Session: Room:
Ballroom A
Assessing Computer Science Programs: What Have We Learned
Special Session: Room:
Ballroom B
An Initiative to Attract Students to Computing
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom C
Tools and Techniques for Teaching Object-Oriented Programming
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom D
Algorithm Visualization
Vendor Session: Room:
Ballroom E
Vendor Session: EMC "Information Management and Data Storage"
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 1-3
Mindstorms: Robotics and Beyond
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 4-5
Communication Skills
Special Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 6-8
Computational Thinking
Thursday, March 8, 2007  5:45 PM to 6:30 PM
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions: Room:
As Assigned
BOFs Session I
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  6:45 PM to 7:30 PM
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions: Room:
As Assigned
BOFs Session II
 
Thursday, March 8, 2007  12/30/1999 7:45 PM to 12/30/1999 10:00 PM
 
Location:
RiverCenter Lobby, Ballroom D/E
SIGCSE Reception - Hot Hors d'oeuvres and Beverages
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  12/30/1999 8:30 AM to 12/30/1999 10:00 AM
 
Location:
Ballroom A-C
Posthumous Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computing Education: John Hughes, Professor, University of Technology Sydney

Keynote Speaker
Grady Booch
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
Coffee Break & Exhibits
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Poster: Room:
Exhibit Hall 1
Faculty Posters Session I
Friday, March 9, 2007  10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
NSF Showcase
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  10:30 AM to 11:45 AM
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom A
Active Learning
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom B
Non-Majors and Budding Majors
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom C
Patterns
Panel Session: Room:
Ballroom D
Programming-Lite: A Dialog on Educating Computer Science Practitioners in a Flat World
Vendor Session: Room:
Ballroom E
Vendor Session: Microsoft "XNA Game Development"
Special Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 1-3
...But What Do the Top-Rated Schools Do? A Survey of Introductory Computer Science Curricula
Special Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 4-5
ACM-W's New Programs for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Computing
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 6-8
Teaching Computer Graphics
Friday, March 9, 2007  11:45 AM to 2:00 PM
 
Location:
On Your Own
Lunch Break
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
NSF Showcase
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  2:00 PM to 3:15 PM
Special Session: Room:
Ballroom A
Day One of the Objects-First First Course: What to Do
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom B
Pedagogy
Special Session: Room:
Ballroom C
Outcomes-Based Computing Accreditation Criteria
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom D
Embedded Systems and Architecture
Vendor Session: Room:
Ballroom E
Vendor Session: Microsoft "Robotics in CS (IPRE)"
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 1-3
K-12 Computing
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 4-5
Project Management and Software Engineering
Special Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 6-8
Status Report of the SIGCSE Committee on Teaching Computer Science Research Methods
Friday, March 9, 2007  12/30/1999 2:00 PM to 12/30/1999 3:15 PM
 
Location:
Meeting Rm 9
SIGCSE Special Projects Showcase
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  3:15 PM to 4:00 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
Coffee Break & Exhibits
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  3:15 PM to 5:15 PM
Poster: Room:
Exhibit Hall 1
Faculty Posters Session II
Friday, March 9, 2007  4:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Special Session: Room:
Ballroom A
The Current Crisis in Computing: What Are the Real Issues?
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom B
New Ways to Teach CS1
Special Session: Room:
Ballroom C
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom D
Bioinformatics
Vendor Session: Room:
Ballroom E
Vendor Session: EMC "Information Management and Data Storage"
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 1-3
Kinesthetic Learning Activities
Special Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 4-5
Developing Resources to Support a National Computer Science Curriculum for K-12
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 6-8
Emerging Instructional Technologies
Friday, March 9, 2007  5:30 PM to 6:15 PM
 
Location:
Ballroom D-E
SIGCSE Business Meeting
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
 
Location:
Ballroom D-E
CCSC Business Meeting
 
Friday, March 9, 2007  7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Workshops: Room:
As Assigned
Workshops 11-25
 
Saturday, March 10, 2007  8:30 AM to 10:10 AM
Special Session: Room:
Ballroom D
Alice Frenzy: An Interactive Group Activity
Paper Session: Room:
Ballroom E
Gender Issues
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 1-2
Curriculum Issues
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 3
Programming Languages and Compilers
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 4-5
Software Engineering
Panel Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 6-7
NSF-DGE GK-12 Teaching Fellowships: Changing Student Perceptions about Computer Science
Vendor Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 8
Vendor Session: Microsoft "Windows Embedded Academic Program" / "Windows Core Architecture"
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 9-10
Security and Networks
Student Research Presentations: Room:
Conference II.III, Salon I - Marriott
Student Research Competition
Saturday, March 10, 2007  10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
NSF Showcase
 
Saturday, March 10, 2007  10:10 AM to 11:00 AM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall I
Coffee Break & Exhibits
 
Saturday, March 10, 2007  11:00 AM to 12:40 PM
Special Session: Room:
Ballroom D
Computer Games in the Classroom, or, How to Get Perfect Attendance, Even at 8 AM
Special Session: Room:
Ballroom E
Nifty Assignments
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 1-2
Computer Science Education Research
Special Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 3
The Computing Ontology Project Computing Education Application
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 4-5
Courseware
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 6-7
Computing and Society
Vendor Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 8
Vendor Session: Sun "Beyond the Command Line, Tools and Resources for Teaching the Java Language"
Paper Session: Room:
Meeting Rm 9-10
Systems and Databases
Saturday, March 10, 2007  12/30/1999 12:40 PM to 12/30/1999 3:00 PM
 
Location:
Ballroom A-C
SIGCSE Luncheon
Lifetime Service Award: John Impagliazzo, Professor of Computer Science, Hofstra University

Keynote Speaker
Jonathan Schaeffer
 
Saturday, March 10, 2007  3:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Workshops: Room:
As Assigned
Workshops 26-35