SIGCSE 2000 Doctoral Consortium

March 8, 2000
Austin, TX

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Consortium Coordinators

• Dr. Marian Petre, The Open University, UK (email: M.Petre@open.ac.uk )
• Dr. Vicki L. Almstrum, The University of Texas at Austin, USA (email: almstrum@cs.utexas.edu ; http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/almstrum/)

Discussants

• Mr. Michael Clancy, University of California, Berkeley, USA <clancy@cs.berkeley.edu>
• Dr. Philip East, University of Northern Iowa, USA <east@cs.uni.edu>
• Dr. David Gries, University of Georgia, USA <gries@cs.uga.edu>
• Mr. Tony Greening, University of Ballarat, Australia <agreening@acm.org>

About the Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium is held the day before the regular sessions of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium begin. The aims of the Doctoral Consortium are:

• To offer a friendly forum for students to discuss their work and receive constructive feedback.
• To offer relevant information on issues important to doctoral candidates.
• To nurture a community of researchers.

The Consortium is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program. The Consortium is for students at any stage of doctoral study; a particular invitation was extended to students studying part-time in conjunction with full-time teaching. The focus of the Doctoral Consortium is on CS education research, although students in any area of computing are welcome to apply.

The Consortium allows participants to interact with established researchers and with other Ph.D. students, and to reflect -- through short activities, information sessions, and discussions -- on the process and lessons of doctoral research. Each participant gives a short, critiqued, research presentation. Doctoral Consortium participants will register for the Technical Symposium and partake in other conference activities.

Provisional Programme (March 2, 2000)

Participants in 2000 SIGCSE Doctoral Consortium

Debra T. Burhans

• Email address:  burhans@cse.buffalo.edu
• Title of research: A Characterization of Answers in Rule-Based Systems
• Affiliation: State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
• Personal homepage: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~burhans/

Janet Carter

• Email address:  J.E.Carter@ukc.ac.uk
• Title of research: Peer scaffolding and the learning of programming
• Affiliation: Computing Laboratory, Univ. of Kent at Canterbury, UK
• Personal homepage: http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/jec/

Peter J. DePasquale

• Email address:  pjdepasq@vt.edu
• Title of research: Concurrent Programming Aids in CS1/CS2 Courses
• Affiliation: Virginia Tech, USA
• Personal homepage: http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~pjdepasq/

Oliver Grillmeyer

• Email address:  topramen@socrates.berkeley.edu
• Title of research: Designing Effective Animations for Computer Science Education
• Affiliation: U.C. Berkeley, USA
• Personal homepage: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~topramen/

Hope D. Harley

• Email address:  hharley@vt.edu
• Title of research: Learning Object-Oriented Analysis and Design by Case Study: A Minimalist Approach
• Affiliation: Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA
• Personal homepage: http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~harley/

Martha Hause

• Email address:  M.L.Hause@open.ac.uk
• Title of research: Communication in remote group learning
• Affiliation: The Open University, UK

Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk

• Email address:  lisak@acm.org
• Title of research: Trust in Computer Software as Evidenced by Student Selection of GRE Format
• Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin, USA

Mary Z. Last

• Email address:   last@acad.stedwards.edu
• Title of research: Virtual Teams in Computing Education
• Affiliation: Kingston University, UK
• Personal homepage: http://www.cs.stedwards.edu/~lastm/

Stephanie Ludi

• Email address:  sludi@asu.edu
• Title of research: Factors Affecting the Retention of Women in the Undergraduate Computer Science Program
• Affiliation: Arizona State Univ., USA
• Personal homepage: http://www.public.asu.edu/~sludi/

Elizabeth Odekirk-Hash

• Email address:  odekirk@cs.utah.edu
• Title of research: Program Analysis and Hints in Beginning Programming
• Affiliation: University of Utah, USA
• Personal homepage: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~odekirk/

Cheryl D. Seals

• Email address:  seals@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
• Title of research: A Visual Programming Environment to Support Novice Programmer Development of Educational Simulations
• Virginia Tech, USA
• Personal homepage: http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~seals/

Jennifer E. Walter

• Email address:  jennyw@cs.tamu.edu
• Title of research: Distributed Algorithms for Mobile Computing Systems
• Affiliation: Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
• Personal homepage: http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/jennyw/

See separate submission instructions
for further information on this year's application process.