Conference on computer science teaching

Computer science teaching into the new millennium will be the hot topic at the third Australasian Computer Science Education Conference 1998 (ACSE ?98) to be held at the Women's College at the University of Queensland between July 8 and 10.

The conference aims to provide an Asia/Pacific forum for educational issues related to computer science, according to conference organiser and Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department senior lecturer Dr David Carrington.

The conference's keynote speakers include Dr Dianne Martin from George Washington University, who will speak on Computer Science in the New Millennium: Convergence of the Technical, Social and Ethical, and Ken Robinson from the University of New South Wales who will speak on Where are we? The Year 2000 and Computer Science.

Other topics include undergraduate students and the management-technology interface, introducing a legal strand in the computer science curriculum, peer mentoring female computing students, multimedia delivery of computer programming subjects, multi-campus teaching using computer networks and flexible delivery.

The conference is preceded by the Fifth Australian Women in Computing Workshop to be held on July 6 and 7 at the same venue as ACSE ?98.

For more information, contact Dr Carrington (telephone 07 3365 3310 at work, 07 3371 2891 at home, facsimile 07 3365 1999, email davec@csee.uq.edu.au or URL http://www.it.uq.edu.au/acse98/).