SIGCSE 2012 | February 29 - March 3, 2012 | Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

SIGCSE 2012 Program-at-a-Glance

Links to additional information about SIGCSE 2012

 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012   8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
 
Session Type:
Pre-Symposium
Room:
306A
Programming with Alice Workshop (Alice 3.0)
 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012   9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
 
Session Type:
Pre-Symposium
Room:
301B
Open Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS)
 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012   9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
 
Session Type:
Pre-Symposium
Room:
302A
Career Mentoring Workshop
Session Type:
Pre-Symposium
Room:
305A
Teaching Open Source Symposium
Session Type:
Pre-Symposium
Room:
302C
Computing Accreditation Workshop
 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012  12:30 PM to 5:00 PM
 
Session Type:
Pre-Symposium
Room:
301B
Teaching Ethics in Computer Science: Active Learning
 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012  7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
 
Workshop: Room:
As Assigned
Workshops 1-15
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012   8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
 
Session Type:
Plenary Session
Room:
Ballroom BC
Plenary Session
Keynote Speaker: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall A
Exhibits
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  10:00 AM to 10:45 AM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall A
Break and Exhibits
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
 
Session Type:
Project Showcase
Room:
Exhibit Hall A
NSF Showcase #1
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
 
Session Type:
Social
Room:
202
K-12 Teachers Room
Session Type:
Social
Room:
203
CS Education Research Room
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  10:45 AM to 12:00 PM
 
Panel Session: Room:
301AB
Computer Curricula 2013: Update
Panel Session: Room:
305B
Scrum Across the CS/SE Curricula
Special Session: Room:
306C
Role of Interdisciplinary Computing in Higher Education, Research and Industry
Paper Session: Room:
302A
Data Structures and Algorithms
Paper Session: Room:
302B
Robots
Paper Session: Room:
306A
K-6 Collaborations
Paper Session: Room:
306B
Tools
Supporter Session: Room:
302C
Supporter Session: Intel
Teaching Parallelism Lightning Rounds
Supporter Session: Room:
305A
Supporter Session: Microsoft
Empowering Students: Teaching Software Development with Windows Phone
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  12:00 PM to 12:15 PM
 
Location:
TBA
Student Icebreaker
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  12:00 PM to 1:45 PM
 
Session Type:
Tasty
Room:
Marriott State CDEF
First Timer's Lunch
Speaker: Jane Prey, Winner of 2012 SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service
Session Type:
Tasty
Room:
On your own
Lunch: On Your Own
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  1:45 PM to 3:00 PM
 
Panel Session: Room:
301AB
A Stratified View of Programming Language Parallelism for Undergraduate CS Education
Special Session: Room:
305B
Demystifying Computing with Magic
Panel Session: Room:
306C
Community-Based Projects for Computing Majors: Opportunities, Challenges and Best Practices
Paper Session: Room:
302A
Games
Paper Session: Room:
302B
Professional Experiences
Paper Session: Room:
306A
A Session with a View
Paper Session: Room:
306B
Pedagogy: Programming
Supporter Session: Room:
305A
Supporter Session: Microsoft
Creative Uses for Kinect in Teaching – with Curriculum Materials
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012   1:45 PM to 5:15 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall A
Student Research Poster Session
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012   3:00 PM to 3:45 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall A
Break and Exhibits
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012   3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
 
Session Type:
Project Showcase
Room:
Exhibit Hall A
NSF Showcase #2
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  3:45 PM to 5:00 PM
 
Panel Session: Room:
301AB
Science Fiction in Computer Science Education
Panel Session: Room:
305B
Diversity Initiatives to Support Systemic Change in Undergraduate Computing
Special Session: Room:
306C
Transforming the CS Classroom with Studio-Based Learning
Paper Session: Room:
302A
Broadening Participation
Paper Session: Room:
302B
Online Collaboration
Paper Session: Room:
306A
Middle School Collaborations
Paper Session: Room:
306B
New Tricks for the Classroom
Supporter Session: Room:
305A
Supporter Session: Google
All Things Google and Education
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  5:10 PM to 6:00 PM
 
Birds-of-a-Feather Session: Room:
As Assigned
BoF Flock I
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012  6:10 PM to 7:00 PM
 
Birds-of-a-Feather Session: Room:
As Assigned
BoF Flock II
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012   7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
 
Location:
Registration Foyer
Reception
 
Friday, March 2, 2012   7:15 AM to 8:15 AM
 
Session Type:
Ancillary Event
Room:
302B
Alice Breakfast
 
Friday, March 2, 2012   8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
 
Session Type:
Plenary Session
Room:
Ballroom BC
Plenary Session
Keynote Speaker: Hal Abelson
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall A
Exhibits
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  10:00 AM to 10:45 AM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall A
Break and Exhibits
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
 
Session Type:
Project Showcase
Room:
Exhibit Hall A
NSF Showcase #3
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
 
Poster: Room:
Exhibit Hall A
Poster Session I
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
 
Session Type:
Social
Room:
202
K-12 Teachers Room
Session Type:
Social
Room:
203
CS Education Research Room
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  10:45 AM to 12:00 PM
 
Panel Session: Room:
301AB
Teaching Mathematical Reasoning Across the Curriculum
Special Session: Room:
305B
Teaching HS Computer Science as if the Rest of the World Existed
Special Session: Room:
306C
Funding the Challenges in Computing
Paper Session: Room:
302A
CS1: New Ideas
Paper Session: Room:
302B
Team Work
Paper Session: Room:
306A
Summer Experiences
Paper Session: Room:
306B
Software Engineering
Supporter Session: Room:
305A
Supporter Session: Intel
Intel Academic Assembly: What Are the Next Imperatives?
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  12:00 PM to 1:45 PM
 
Location:
On Your Own
Lunch Break
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  12:10 PM to 1:35 PM
 
Session Type:
Ancillary Event
Room:
301AB
Snap! Lunch
Session Type:
Ancillary Event
Room:
302AB
UPE National Meeting (12:10-12:40)
2012 Abacus Award Presentation and Talk: Alan Kay (12:45-1:35)
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  1:45 PM to 3:00 PM
 
Special Session: Room:
301AB
CS Principles: Piloting a National Course
Special Session: Room:
305B
Fun, Phone, and the Future - Microsoft XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone, and Kinect SDK
Special Session: Room:
306C
Building an Open, Large-Scale Research Repository of Initial Programming Student Behavior
Paper Session: Room:
302A
Collaborative Learning
Paper Session: Room:
302B
Curriculum Issues
Paper Session: Room:
306A
Active Learning I
Paper Session: Room:
306B
Communication Skills
Supporter Session: Room:
305A
Supporter Session: Google
The MIT Center for Mobile Learning and the Future of App Inventor
 
Friday, March 2, 2012   3:00 PM to 3:45 PM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall A
Break and Exhibits
 
Friday, March 2, 2012   3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
 
Session Type:
Project Showcase
Room:
Exhibit Hall A
NSF Showcase #4
 
Friday, March 2, 2012   3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
 
Poster: Room:
Exhibit Hall A
Poster Session II
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  3:45 PM to 5:00 PM
 
Special Session: Room:
301AB
Understanding NSF Funding Opportunities
Panel Session: Room:
305B
Teaching Outside the Text
Special Session: Room:
306C
Computing Engineering Review Task Force Report
Paper Session: Room:
302A
Projects
Paper Session: Room:
302B
Alice and Scratch
Paper Session: Room:
306A
Active Learning II
Paper Session: Room:
306B
Non-majors
Supporter Session: Room:
305A
Supporter Session: Microsoft
Cloud in a Classroom: Faculty Experiences
 
Friday, March 2, 2012   5:10 PM to 5:55 PM
 
Location:
302A
SIGCSE Business Meeting
 
Friday, March 2, 2012   6:00 PM to 6:45 PM
 
Session Type:
Ancillary Event
Room:
302C
Going Greenfoot
Session Type:
Ancillary Event
Room:
305A
NCWIT AA Academic Networking Reception
Session Type:
Business Meeting
Room:
305B
CCSC Business Meeting
 
Friday, March 2, 2012  7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
 
Workshop: Room:
As Assigned
Workshops 16-27
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012  8:30 AM to 9:45 AM
 
Special Session: Room:
301AB
Nifty Assignments
Special Session: Room:
305B
Update on the CS Principles Project
Panel Session: Room:
306C
Implementing Evidence-Based Practices makes a Difference in Female Undergraduate Enrollments
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012  8:30 AM to 10:10 AM
 
Paper Session: Room:
302A
High School Collaborations
Paper Session: Room:
302B
Parallelism and Concurrency
Paper Session: Room:
306A
Mobile Computing
Paper Session: Room:
306B
Visualization
Student Research Presentations: Room:
302C
Student Research Competition - Graduate
Student Research Presentations: Room:
305A
Student Research Competition - Undergraduate
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012  9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
 
Session Type:
Social
Room:
202
K-12 Teachers Room
Session Type:
Social
Room:
203
CS Education Research Room
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012   9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
 
Session Type:
Exhibits
Room:
Exhibit Hall A
Exhibits
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012  10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
 
Session Type:
Project Showcase
Room:
Exhibit Hall A
NSF Showcase #5
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012  10:10 AM to 10:55 AM
 
Location:
Exhibit Hall A
Break and Exhibits
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012  10:55 AM to 12:10 PM
 
Panel Session: Room:
301AB
Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe: Making Computing Fun Again
Special Session: Room:
305B
Promoting Student-Centered Learning with POGIL
Special Session: Room:
306C
Teaching Secure Coding - Report from Summit on Education in Secure Software
Paper Session: Room:
302A
Attracting Majors
Paper Session: Room:
302B
OS and Distributed Computing
Paper Session: Room:
306A
Curricular Innovations and Research
Paper Session: Room:
306B
CS Education Research
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012  12:15 PM to 12:30 PM
 
Location:
Registration Lobby
Experience it Binary-Ring Robot Circus
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012  12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
 
Session Type:
Plenary Session
Room:
Ballroom BC
SIGCSE Luncheon
Keynote speaker: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012  3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
 
Workshop: Room:
As Assigned
Workshops 28-36