CCSCNE   Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges — Northeastern Region

Best Paper Awards

Awards are given to the best papers presented at the conference.

We are proud to present the previous award recipients:

• CCSCNE 2003 at Rhode Island College:
  • First place: Mark LeBlanc, Betsey Dyer, Wheaton College, MA
    "Teaching Together: A Three-Year Case Study in Genomics"
  • Second place: Evelyn Stiller, Cathie LeBlanc, Plymouth State College, NH
    "Creating Computer Science Curricula for a New Millennium"
  • Third place: Mark Hoffman, Jonathan Blake, Quinnipiac University, CT
    "Computer Literacy: Today and Tomorrow."
• CCSCNE 2002 at Worcester State College: coming soon
• CCSCNE 2001 at Middlebury College:
  • First place: Grant Braught, Dickinson College, PA
    "Computer Organization in the Breadth-first Course"
  • Second place: Joseph Schafer, USMA, NY, Daniel J. Ragsdale, USMA, NY, John R. Surdu, USMA, NY, and Curtis A.Carver, Texas A&M University, and USMA, NY
    "The IWAR Range: A Laboratory for Undergraduate Information Assurance Education "
  • Third place: John Trono, Saint Michael's College, VT
    "Arithmetical Croquet"

• CCSCNE 2000 at Ramapo College of New Jersey:
  • First place:Michael Gousie, Wheaton College, MA
    "Teaching Computer Graphics in a Small Department"
  • Second place: Stephen Bloch, Adelphi University, NY
    "Scheme and Java in the First Year"
  • Third place: Madalene Spezialetti, Trinity College, CT
    "Participating in Patterns: An Introduction to Recursion"

• CCSCNE 99 at Providence College:
  • First place: Mark LeBlanc and Grace Baron, Wheaton College, MA
    "Service Learning in Computing"
  • Second place: Linda Wilkens, Bridgewater State College, MA
    "Informed Search for Solutions to the Friendly's Peg Game Using STL Function Objects"
  • Third place: Louis Barton, Suffolk University, MA
    "Teaching Computer Programming by Stealth"

• CCSCNE 98 at Sacred Heart University:
• First place: Greg W. Scragg, SUNY Geneseo,
  "Using the World Wide Web as an Introduction to the field of Computer Science"
• Second place: Bruce P. Tis, Boston University
  "Using Microcontroller Kernels in an Operating Systems Course"
• CCSCNE 97 at Northeastern University, Boston:
• First place: Linda M. Wilkens, Bridgewater State College,
  "Using Threads to Investigate Parallelism"
• Second place: Thomas J. Cortina, Polytechnic University,
  "A Computer Music Course for small Computer Science Departments"