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Research, teaching, and service: the miniconference as a model for CS graduate seminar courses

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Paolo A. G. Sivilotti,

Bruce W. WeideAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 36, Issue 1

Pages 487 - 491

https://doi.org/10.1145/1028174.971464

Published: 01 March 2004 Publication History

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Rarely are the three pillars of academia---research, teaching, and service---addressed together, within one intellectually cohesive context in the graduate curriculum. Such a context is important for exposing students to the inter-relationships among these facets.This paper presents our experience with structuring graduate research seminar courses around the model of a "miniconference". Throughout the quarter, students pursue original research projects in the discipline of the seminar course. At the end of the quarter, students write their findings as technical conference papers, then act as the miniconference program committee in reviewing each other's submissions. Finally, the selected papers are presented at the miniconference. In addition to the model itself, we describe some variations in instantiation and an assessment of the benefits of this general approach.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 36, Issue 1

March 2004

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DOI:10.1145/1028174

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SIGCSE '04: Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2004
544 pages
ISBN:1581137982
DOI:10.1145/971300
Conference Chairs:
Dan Joyce
Villanova University
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Deborah Knox
The College of New Jersey
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Ithaca College
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Tom Naps
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

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