Making Contact: SIGCSE 2010

By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on February 10, 2010 at 2:11 pm

The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education is happening this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, from March 10th through March 13th.  The event is known as SIGCSE 2010, and if – like most people – you’d like some help filtering through the alphabet soup here, this one’s on me:

  • ACM stands for Association for Computing Machinery (OK, I’d use ACM too…)
  • SIGCSE stands for the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (Aha: now you have my full attention…)

Sponsored this year by big dogs Microsoft, Intel, Google, and IBM (probably others as well by now, check it out for yourself) the conference theme is Making Contact.

This is a perfect theme for 2010 when, perhaps more than ever, education professionals from around the world meet to make both contact and connections with each other by virtually every means possible: panels, poster sessions, special sessions, keynote addresses, workshops, birds-of-a-feather meetings, papers. And don’t forget about the almost constant opportunities at breaks and meals to engage others in academia who face the same challenges (and rewards!) as we do.

However, there’s another way for you to engage and benefit from this Making Contact theme, and it’s a way that you don’t know about yet. And it’s a big one. Big. BIG.

It’s an all upper-case way of MAKING CONTACT, but this time with your students, your current and future course materials, your labs and homework and research activities; all of this making direct contact with Intel’s commitment to helping you graduate state-of-the-art, 21st-century programmers, term after term, semester after semester, year after year.

Intrigued?  Good.

Want more details?  Well, as the project manager (note case) I feel quite confident in telling you that you’ll have to come by the Intel booth at SIGCSE 2010 for those.  (It’ll be here before you know it.) Check it out:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/isn-at-sigcse-2010/

http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2010/

Hope to see you there. (My boss, Dr. Michael Wrinn, is going to knock your socks off with his keynote speech; and yes, you have my permission to tell him I told you so…)

Cheers,

jdg

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