SIGCSE 2008

March 12-15, 2008
Portland, Oregon USA

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"Diversity through Accessibility"

The 39^th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education provides a diverse selection of technical sessions and opportunities for networking, learning and interaction. This symposium addresses problems common among educators working to develop, implement and/or evaluate computing programs, curricula, and courses. In addition, the symposium provides a forum for sharing new ideas for syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction. Global and country specific perspectives and models of computing education are also encouraged.

Invited Speaker Presentations

Thursday, March 13	Friday, March 14	Saturday, March 15
Randy Pausch Professor of Computer Science, HCI & Design Carnegie Mellon University talk slides	Marissa Mayer Vice President Search Products & User Experience Google	Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington talk slides

Regarding the theme of the symposium ...

"Diversity through Accessibility"
Accessibility in this context applies to computer science education, and that means approaches to learning that include everyone, putting the typically disenfranchised (e.g., minorities, women, people with disabilities, non-Western cultures) on equal footing with the "enfranchised." In this way, accessible computing education results in a more complete, more diverse, and more successful population of future computer science professionals. Themes are all about vision, and this one is pretty grand, at least in our opinion.

Susan and J.D., Symposium Co-Chairs

News & Information Photo Albums from the Symposium Videos from the Symposium A limited number of Paper Proceedings available, $35 + shipping, contact sigcse2008@cs.rose-hulman.edu Papers are now accessible in the ACM Digital Library

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