SIGCSE 2008:My Report

Susan Haynes

What I attended

Thursday: Keynote: stand-in for Randy Pausch

www.cmu.edu/randyslecture Panel: CS1 for Scientists

Sedgewicks: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/introcs/home/ Special Session: Nifty Assignments

nifty.stanford.edu Special Session: NSF Funding Opportunities

OMG! Seems like a lot is available -- especially for outreach and for improving UG education. REUs still seem very strong.

What I attended

Friday: SIGCSE Keynote Address: Marissa Mayer, Google NSF Showcase Papers: Security

Open source computer algebra systems• MAXIMA, AXIOM

Special Session: CS4HS http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cs4hs/

Workshop: Ruby on Rails (pathetic) It’s a possibility for senior-level web class. Definitely not

for database

What I attended

Saturday: ABET PEV retraining :-( SIGCSE Banquet: Ed Lazowska ABET PEV retraining Workshop: Effective NSF grants (about 30

minutes).

Outside of SIGCSE

Thursday lunch at <I forget where> with colleagues from ASU, other.

Thursday dinner at McCormick & Schmick (Gus, Mike, Matt, Li, Bill)

Friday lunch at the food court watched the hokey pokey and chicken dance on the ice rink (Li)

Saturday dinner at Jake’s Crawfish Grill (Matt) Serious chocolate purchases (> $150) near ABET

training: Leonidas, Treuchet, a Portland product Went to Powell’s Bookstore

Possible initiatives I am fired up for

Outreach to middle school students - summer camp

Outreach to HS teachersComputational science curriculum