SIGCSE

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ACM SIGCSE
Founded1970 [1]
Focus Computer science education
Area served
International
Key people
 Alison Clear
Website sigcse.org

SIGCSE is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computer Science Education (CSE), which provides a forum for educators to discuss issues related to the development, implementation, and/or evaluation of computing programs, curricula, and courses, as well as syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy. [2] SIGCSE is also the colloquial name for the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, which is the largest of the four conferences organized by SIGCSE.

Contents

The main focus of SIGCSE is higher education, and discussions include improving computer science education at high school level and below. The membership level has held steady at around 3300 members for several years. As of 2024 the chair of SIGCSE is Alison Clear for July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025.

Conferences

SIGCSE has four large annual conferences:

  1. The SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education is held in North America with an average annual attendance of approximately 1600 in recent years. The most recent conference was held March 15 through March 19, 2023 in Toronto, Canada. [3]
  2. The annual conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE). The next ITiCSE will be held July 8 - July 10, hosted by the University of Università degli Studi di Milano in Milan, Italy. [4] This conference is attended by about 200-300 and is mainly held in Europe, but has also been held in countries outside of Europe ((Israel - 2012), and (Peru - 2016)).
  3. The International Computing Education Research (ICER) conference. [5] This conference has about 70 attendees and is held in the United States every other year. On the alternate years it rotates between Europe and Australasia. The 2023 conference was held in Chicago, Illinois. [6] The 2024 conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia. [7]
  4. The ACM Global Computing Education (CompEd) conference. This conference will be held at locations outside of the typical North American and European locations. The first conference was held in Chengdu, China between the 17th and 19 May 2019. [8] The second was held in Hyderabad, India, from December 7 to December 9, 2023. [9] The third is planned to be held in Botswana in 2025. It is planned for CompEd to be held every other year.

Newsletter/Bulletin

The SIGCSE Bulletin is an newsletter published once a quarter, started in 1969. Today, it is published electronically. [10]

Awards

SIGCSE has two main awards that are given out annually.

  1. The Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education is given annually since 1981. [11]
  2. The SIGCSE Lifetime Service to Computer Science Education has been awarded annually since 1997. [12]

SIGCSE Board

The current SIGCSE Board for July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025 is: [13]

SIGCSE Chairs over the years:

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References

  1. ↑ "SIGCSE, the Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education".
  2. ↑ "Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education". sigcse.org. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "SIGCSE". sigcse2023.sigcse.org. 15–18 March 2023. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "ITiCSE 2024" . Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  5. ↑ "ICER proceedings". acm.org.
  6. ↑ "ICER Conference | ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research" . Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  7. ↑ "ICER conference series - ICER 2024". icer2022.acm.org. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  8. ↑ "ACM Global Computing Education Conference (CompEd) | Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education". sigcse.org. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  9. ↑ "Participate in CompEd 2023!|". ACM Comped. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  10. ↑ "ACM SIGCSE". sigcse.org. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  11. ↑ "Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education - Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education". sigcse.org. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  12. ↑ "Lifetime Service to Computer Science Education - Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education". sigcse.org. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  13. ↑ "The SIGCSE Board | Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education". sigcse.org. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
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