ACM Special Interest Group on Information Technology Education

Archive for March, 2011

Mar

Watson Researcher to Keynote SIGITE 2011!

Categories: Conferences

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Col. Bryan Goda, a co-chair of the conference, has informed me that he has secured a member of the IBM Research team who created the Watson; computer (famous for its appearance on Jeopardy) to be the keynote speaker at the conference. If you were on the fence about submitting a paper for the conference, I hope this will be a factor in your deciding to do so. Read more

Mar

IT Discipline/Accreditation Summary Documents

Categories: Curriculum

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If you have not combed through the new website you may have missed a few additions. The SIGITE Executive Committee has created summary documents on the IT Discipline/Model Curriculum as well as on IT ABET Accreditation. These are great to present to administration to understand IT as well as faculty and staff supporting IT programs. Of course the full documentation on these can be found linked within the site on pages devoted to those subjects. Read more

SIGITE is the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Technology Education. Our members include information technology faculty (teachers and researchers), students, and industry professionals.

With over 400 members worldwide, SIGITE drives the creation and dissemination of the computing discipline of information technology. The organization has created a model undergraduate curriculum and helped create accreditation guidelines for IT programs, and is now defining and promoting IT research.