
UBC Presence at SIGCSE 2015
This March, UBC Computer Science had a great presence at SIGCSE 2015, ACM’s top computer science education conference. Three of our faculty members were in leadership roles; Kurt Eiselt was the symposium co-chair, Paul Carter was the workshops co-chair, and Steve Wolfman was an associate program chair.
UBC Computer Science members also presented two papers, and co-presented a special session and a birds of a feather session. Our department members’ names are in bold in the list below.
Papers:
Are Females Disinclined to Tinker in Computer Science? Samantha Krieger; Meghan Allen; Catherine Rawn.
Mechanical TA: Partially Automated High-Stakes Peer Grading. James R. Wright, Chris Thornton; Kevin Leyton-Brown.
Special Session:
The CS Concept Inventory Quiz Show. Nafeesa Dewji; Steven A Wolfman; Geoffrey L Herman; Leo Porter; Cynthia Taylor; Jan Vahrenhold.
Birds of a Feather:
Sharing Best Practices for Alumni Engagement. Meghan Allen; Ben Coleman; Diane Horton; Lynn Lambert; Michele Ng.