Past and Current Committees

SIGCSE's Committee Initiative encourages all SIGCSE members to participate in substantive discussions on areas of community interest, with the goals of investigating topics in depth and culminating with substantive reports.

SIGCSE currently has three live committees:

• Committee on Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community
• Facilitators: Gloria Childress Townsend, DePauw University and Paula Gabbert, Furman University
• Stated Goals/Focus of the Committee
• As of 2010 this committee has held an (almost) annual Town Meeting/Birds of Feather during the SIGCSE Symposium for dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects, along with group discussion and brainstorming, in order to create committee goals for the coming year. They also use the ACM-W booth at the conference to hand out materials. They maintain a listserv for over one hundred committee members.

• Committee on Teaching Computer Science Research Methods
• Facilitators: Hilary Holz, California State University, East Bay and Anne Applin, Ithaca College
• Stated Goals/Focus of the Committee
• This committee evolved into a series of two ITiCSE Working Groups (ITiCSE 2006 Working Group and ITiCSE 2007 Working Group). They continue to maintain the The Computing Research Methods Multi-Perspective Digital Library. There is also a very active student community that came out of the committee.

• Committee on Music and Computer Science
  • Facilitators: Robert Beck, Villanova University, and more
  • Stated Goals/Focus of the Committee - Coming Soon

The first SIGCSE Committee was appointed in 2003 and produced a report (including examples, laboratories materials, and homework exercises):

• Committee on the Implementation of a Discrete Mathematics Course
  • Facilitators: William Marion, Valparaiso University and Douglas Baldwin, SUNY at Geneseo
  • Committee Charge, Report and Collected Resources