PLANS FOR FEBRUARY AACCD MEETING

I look forward to welcoming you all to the Academic Advisory Committee on the Computing Disciplines annual meeting, Feburary 8 and 9, at the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) Auditorium starting at 12:30 pm. There will not be a registration fee for this meeting -- breaks will be courtesy of "Georgia Computes!". Below is the general agenda.

Please read all the way to the bottom for hotel information and information on workshops.

Mark Guzdial, http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Programs

AGENDA

To be held at Technology Square Research Building auditorium.
Directions to TSRB: http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/facilities/directions.html

Thursday,  8 February

12:30 pm: Welcome from the Dean of the College of Computing, Richard DeMillo 12:30 pm: Convene the meeting, approving last year's minutes, news updates, agenda review.

1-2 pm: Update from the BoR.

2-2:15 pm: Break

2:15-2:45: RESEARCH TALK: Merrick Furst, Associate Dean of the College of Computing, on Threads

2:45-3:15: RESEARCH TALK: Tucker Balch, Associate Professor of the College of Computing, Director of the Institute for Personal Robotics in Education

3:15-3:45 pm: Determine Working Groups and Subcommittees

3:45-5:30: Subcommittee Work

6:30: Dinner (On-your-own, but we will arrange for a reservation for all those interested.)

Friday,  9 February

9:00 Reconvene Meeting

9:30-10: Finish Subcommittee Work

10-10:15: Break

10:15-11:30: Reports back from Subcommittees

11:30-12: Conclude Meeting

HOTEL INFORMATION

The attendees need to ask for the Georgia Tech rate when making their reservations. The Georgia Tech Hotel is across the street from TSRB, but are currently reporting that they are full on 8 February. Courtyard by Marriott on Techwood Drive has availability with the Georgia Tech Rate of $109.00 per night.

Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center 404-838-1200 www.gatechhotel.com

Courtyard Midtown

404-607-1112

www.courtyard.com/atlmn

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

Friday Afternoon (1-4 pm) we will offer a *free* Workshop (lunch

included) on our media computation curricula. This is essentially the same workshop that we've offered at the ACM SIGCSE Conference the last three years. Sign up at http://home.cc.gatech.edu/gacomputes/3

ADDITIONAL WORKSHOP INFORMATION:

- For those schools interested in offering summer camps *this* summer, there is a meeting January 20 on logistics, advertising, forms for parents, etc. You can sign up for it at

http://home.cc.gatech.edu/gacomputes/2 The April workshop on camp curriculum does NOT require the Jan 20 meeting, but if you want to hold camps this summer, you do need get started with advertising and planning now.

- We have sign up pages for most of our workshops now at http://home.cc.gatech.edu/gacomputes/ Some of these may prompt you for a password -- the password is "aaccd". Please do invite your faculty to sign up for any of these workshops now -- we want Georgia faculty to have first dibs on all the workshops, including the Media Computation workshop in June which will be opened up nationally.