SIGCSE 2005 Symposium Faculty Poster Guidelines

Faculty posters provide an opportunity for an informal presentation featuring "give and take" with conference attendees. Presenting a faculty poster is also a good way in which to discuss and receive feedback on a work in progress that has not been fully developed into a paper.

Important Dates

Due date for proposals: November 12th, 2004
Final notification: December 15th, 2004

Poster Topic Ideas

The topics of poster presentations are not limited, except that it lends itself well to presentation in a poster format, with additional details available in a handout or URL. You might consider a poster presentation of teaching materials which you'd like to share, such as:

problem sets
programming assignments
laboratory materials

Suggestions for poster design are given in Research Posters 101 at www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-2/posters.html. (Although these suggestions were published for student researchers, the ideas are also applicable to faculty posters.)

Poster Presentation

If your proposal is accepted, your poster will be displayed on Friday during the conference. You will be expected to "present" your poster for about one scheduled hour at some time during the day. The space available for your poster will be 4 feet high by 6 feet wide. Some poster displays will have tables and power sources available for demos on your laptop.

Proposal Format

Your proposal should include as much of the following information as possible. Please limit your proposal to two (2) pages.

Proposer: Include name, address, phone and fax numbers, email address (expect most correspondence by email), WWW address (if applicable), etc. This item does not count in the page limit. Poster proposals do not undergo blind review, so this information should be included.

Statement of Topic: A short title.

Significance and Relevance of the Topic: Please include information about any trends in relation to the topic and possibly describe (or cite) evidence to that effect. Your objective here is to explain why the topic is significant. This information can help your proposal to be selected if resources become an issue.
Content: A description of the expected content of the poster.

Submission Process

Poster proposals must be submitted in electronic form via email. Electronic submissions should be in MS Word or Word Perfect or ASCII text format, either inserted into the body of an email message (ASCII text) or as an attachment. Submit proposal and all inquiries to Bonnie McVey at bonnie.mcvey@snc.edu

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