Eric Roberts

Eric Roberts > talks

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Bermuda Project
- Brigid Barron, Caitlin K. Martin, Eric Roberts, Emma M. Mercier, and Sara McPhee. “Imagining possible futures: Course taking and knowledge use within trajectories of technological fluency,” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, April 2004. [pdf]
CS Education
- Eric Roberts, “The dream of a common language: The search for simplicity and stability in computer science education,” Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2004.
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/971300.971343 [pdf] [ppt]
CS1
- “Nifty Assignments: Breakout!,” panel participant at the Thirty-seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, March 2006. [html]
Classroom Tools
- Eric Roberts, “An interactive tutorial for Java,” Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, February 2006.
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1121341.1121447 [pdf]
Curriculum
- “Professional development and Computing Curricula 2001,” invited plenary presentation at the annual Conference of Professors and Heads of Departments of Computing, Milton Keynes, England, October 2002. [ppt]
- “Curricula 2001 for computer science and engineering,” panelist at the 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, October 2000. [pdf]
- “Curricula 2001 for computer science and engineering,” panelist at the 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 1999. [pdf]
Debugging
- “Teaching the psychology of debugging,” invited plenary talk at the winter meeting of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, December 2004. [ppt]
IT Workforce
- “New approaches to the development of the U.S. computing work force: Assessing the issues,” panel participant at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, San Francisco, California, February 2007. [ppt]
- “Labor dynamics of the IT economy: What IT planners need to know about the nature of programming,” invited keynote address at the U.S. State Department IT Strategy Conference, San Francisco, November 2004. [ppt]
Java
- Eric Roberts, “Resurrecting the applet paradigm,” Proceedings of the Thirty-eighth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, March 2007.
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1227310.1227488 [pdf] [ppt]
- Eric Roberts, “An interactive tutorial for Java,” Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, February 2006.
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1121341.1121447 [pdf]
- Eric Roberts, “The dream of a common language: The search for simplicity and stability in computer science education,” Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2004.
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/971300.971343 [pdf] [ppt]
- Eric Roberts, “An overview of MiniJava,” Proceedings of the Thirty-second SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Charlotte, North Carolina, February 2001.
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/364447.364525 [pdf] [applet]
Java Task Force
- “The ACM Java Task Force: The Beta Release,” special session at the Thirty-seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, March 2006. [applet]
- “The ACM Java Task Force: Implications for high schools,” presentation to the Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2005. [applet]
- “The ACM Java Task Force: Status report,” special session at the Thirty-sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2005. [applet]
K-12
- “The ACM Java Task Force: Implications for high schools,” presentation to the Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2005. [applet]
- “Educating the next generation of computer scientists: The critical role of high school teachers,” opening keynote address for the Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2004. [ppt]
Pedagogy
- Lecia Barker, Kathy Garvin-Doxas, and Eric Roberts, “What can computer science learn from a fine-arts approach to teaching?” Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2005.
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1047344.1047482 [pdf] [ppt]
- Eric Roberts, “Strategies for encouraging individual achievement in introductory computer science courses,” Proceedings of the Thirty-first SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Austin, Texas, March 2000.
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/330908.331873 [pdf] [applet]
Pipeline Crisis
- “Expanding the pipeline of students in computer science” (with Mehran Sahami). Plenary address, Stanford Computer Forum, Stanford, California, March 2008. [ppt]
- “Rediscovering the passion, beauty, joy, and awe: Making computing fun again,” panel participant at the Thirty-ninth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, Oregon, March 2008. [ppt]
- “Making computer science fun again,” opening keynote address at Informatics Education Europe II, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2007. [ppt]
- “The current crisis in computing: What are the real issues?”, panel participant at the Thirty-eighth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, March 2007. [ppt]
- “New approaches to the development of the U.S. computing work force: Assessing the issues,” panel participant at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, San Francisco, California, February 2007. [ppt]
- “Expanding the audience for computer science,” invited plenary address at the Thirty-fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Reno, Nevada, February 2003. [ppt]
Professional Societies
- “Learned societies in an international context: A perspective from the United States,” invited plenary presentation at the annual Conference of Professors and Heads of Departments of Computing, Glasgow, Scotland, March 2006. [ppt]
Women in CS
- “Expanding the audience for computer science,” invited plenary address at the Thirty-fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Reno, Nevada, February 2003. [ppt]

Sorted by venue:

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- AAAS-2007
  - “New approaches to the development of the U.S. computing work force: Assessing the issues,” panel participant at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, San Francisco, California, February 2007. [ppt]
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- AERA-2004
  - Brigid Barron, Caitlin K. Martin, Eric Roberts, Emma M. Mercier, and Sara McPhee. “Imagining possible futures: Course taking and knowledge use within trajectories of technological fluency,” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, April 2004. [pdf]
Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium (CSIT)
- CSIT-2005
  - “The ACM Java Task Force: Implications for high schools,” presentation to the Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2005. [applet]
- CSIT-2004
  - “Educating the next generation of computer scientists: The critical role of high school teachers,” opening keynote address for the Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2004. [ppt]
Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC)
- CPHC-2006
  - “Learned societies in an international context: A perspective from the United States,” invited plenary presentation at the annual Conference of Professors and Heads of Departments of Computing, Glasgow, Scotland, March 2006. [ppt]
- CPHC-2002
  - “Professional development and Computing Curricula 2001,” invited plenary presentation at the annual Conference of Professors and Heads of Departments of Computing, Milton Keynes, England, October 2002. [ppt]
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
- FIE-2000
  - “Curricula 2001 for computer science and engineering,” panelist at the 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, October 2000. [pdf]
- FIE-1999
  - “Curricula 2001 for computer science and engineering,” panelist at the 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 1999. [pdf]
Informatics Education Europe (IEE)
- IEE-2007
  - “Making computer science fun again,” opening keynote address at Informatics Education Europe II, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2007. [ppt]
Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG)
- PPIG-2004
  - “Teaching the psychology of debugging,” invited plenary talk at the winter meeting of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, December 2004. [ppt]
Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
- SIGCSE-2008
  - “Rediscovering the passion, beauty, joy, and awe: Making computing fun again,” panel participant at the Thirty-ninth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, Oregon, March 2008. [ppt]
- SIGCSE-2007
  - Eric Roberts, “Resurrecting the applet paradigm,” Proceedings of the Thirty-eighth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, March 2007.
    http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1227310.1227488 [pdf] [ppt]
  - “The current crisis in computing: What are the real issues?”, panel participant at the Thirty-eighth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, March 2007. [ppt]
- SIGCSE-2006
  - “Nifty Assignments: Breakout!,” panel participant at the Thirty-seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, March 2006. [html]
  - “The ACM Java Task Force: The Beta Release,” special session at the Thirty-seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, March 2006. [applet]
  - Eric Roberts, “An interactive tutorial for Java,” Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, February 2006.
    http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1121341.1121447 [pdf]
- SIGCSE-2005
  - Lecia Barker, Kathy Garvin-Doxas, and Eric Roberts, “What can computer science learn from a fine-arts approach to teaching?” Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2005.
    http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1047344.1047482 [pdf] [ppt]
  - “The ACM Java Task Force: Status report,” special session at the Thirty-sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2005. [applet]
- SIGCSE-2004
  - Eric Roberts, “The dream of a common language: The search for simplicity and stability in computer science education,” Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2004.
    http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/971300.971343 [pdf] [ppt]
- SIGCSE-2003
  - “Expanding the audience for computer science,” invited plenary address at the Thirty-fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Reno, Nevada, February 2003. [ppt]
- SIGCSE-2001
  - Eric Roberts, “An overview of MiniJava,” Proceedings of the Thirty-second SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Charlotte, North Carolina, February 2001.
    http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/364447.364525 [pdf] [applet]
- SIGCSE-2000
  - Eric Roberts, “Strategies for encouraging individual achievement in introductory computer science courses,” Proceedings of the Thirty-first SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Austin, Texas, March 2000.
    http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/330908.331873 [pdf] [applet]
Stanford
- Computer Forum
  - “Expanding the pipeline of students in computer science” (with Mehran Sahami). Plenary address, Stanford Computer Forum, Stanford, California, March 2008. [ppt]
United States Government
- State Department
  - “Labor dynamics of the IT economy: What IT planners need to know about the nature of programming,” invited keynote address at the U.S. State Department IT Strategy Conference, San Francisco, November 2004. [ppt]