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ITiCSE 2022, Dublin – Early Bird Registration Closes May 31!

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Registration for ITiCSE 2022 is now open at iticse.acm.org/2022 and Early-Bird registration closes May 31 so now is the time to register!

This year ITiCSE is being held in Dublin, Ireland at University College Dublin.

Conference dates are July 11th to July 13th, 2022. There is a reception on Sunday evening, July 10, along with the traditional ITiCSE excursion and banquet on Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Held annually in Europe, the ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education is the second-oldest and second-largest computer science education conference. 

This year there were a record number of paper submissions (276) of which 79 accepted papers will be delivered over three days in five parallel sessions, in addition to panels, posters, special sessions, nine working groups, and three keynotes: 
  • Professor Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): “Gender Issues in Computer Science Research, Education and Society”
  • Titus Winters, Principal Engineer at Google: “The Gap Between Industry and CS Education”
  • Elizabeth Oldham, Trinity College Dublin: “Computing in the Irish School Curriculum: What Can We Learn from a Fifty-Year Adventure?”
Details including a provisional program are available at iticse.acm.org/2022.

People of ACM Europe December 2019

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I am really happy to be featured in the “People of ACM Europe” December 2019. The questions I was asked were really interesting to answer. I noticed that each month the questions are really tailored to highlight the person’s role which is really cool. This coincided with the launch of the Ireland ACM SIGCSE Chapter which currently has over 150 members! The launch was fantastic – so great to see so many computing education folks in under the same roof!

Announcing the Ireland ACM SIGCSE Chapter!

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Along with Keith Quille and Catherine Mooney, I am thrilled to announce the chartering of the Ireland ACM SIGCSE chapter!*

*ACM -> Assoctation of Computing Machinery; SIGCSE -> Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education.

The mission of the Ireland ACM SIGCSE chapter is:

  • to provide a forum to promote Computing Education in Ireland at all levels of education, across all disciplines and sectors;
  • to promote Computing Education research and practice in Ireland and abroad;
  • to positively influence equality, diversity, and inclusion in computing, everywhere.

We now have nearly 100 members and anyone with an interest in Computing Education in Ireland can join the chapter. There are no dues, but membership in ACM and SIGCSE is encouraged. You can join the Ireland ACM SIGCSE Chapter at https://SIGCSEire.acm.org.

We are looking forward to the chapter launch, hosted by the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin on December 11, 2019 from 2-6pm. We are honoured to announce a keynote from Professor Amber Settle of DePaul Univerisity in Chicago, SIGCSE board member (immediate past-chair), who is going to officially launch the chapter. We will also have a keynote from Associate Professor Paul Dickson (Ithaca College, NY), and have welcome addresses from Associate Professor Chris Bleakley (Head of School of Computer Science, UCD) and Professor Joe Carthy (College Principal, College Of Science, UCD).

Registration for the chapter launch is free but essential (and separate to applying for membership). A link to the eventbrite registration page is available at https://SIGCSEire.acm.org. You can follow the Chapter on Twitter @SIGCSEire.

We look forward to working with you in a new era of Computing Education in Ireland!

UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference

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This year, Neil Brown and I are serving as program co-chairs of the new UK and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference. It will be held at the University of Kent on 5-6th September 2019. The committee includes Janet Carter as conference chair, along with Sally Fincher, Quintin Cuttsand Steven Bradley. Steven has been running the Computing Education Practice conference at Durham for the past few years, which has grown impressively. We believe that there is a growing community of computing education researchers in the UK and Ireland, but we do not have a local conference to support this community’s growth. Our hope is that this sister conference to CEP will provide a useful outlet to share Irish and British computing education research, and encourage research collaborations.

The conference will run roughly from lunchtime on the 5th to lunchtime on the 6th, with some collaboration-building events beforehand and some workshops afterwards. We thus invite submissions of research papers (max 6 pages, ACM format), and proposals for 1-2 hour workshops, by the beginning of June. More details are available on the conference website. Please feel free to send any questions to [email protected] and please do share this news with anyone you think might be interested in submitting or attending. We hope to see a variety of researchers and educators for all age groups.