Programming Contest Information

The Mid-South Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges is happy to announce that it is introducing a parallel session for student papers. Following are the guidelines.

• The author(s) and the presenter must be current undergraduate students. A faculty member or other professional may be listed as an advisor.
• The subject matter could be an undergraduate research project or a sophisticated implementation project. The expectation for quality of research will not be as high as that for professional papers. But generally speaking, a survey of others' work would not be accepted, nor would class projects unless the student has gone beyond normal expectations for an extended project.
• The submission should follow the conference guidelines
  
  http://www.ccsc-ms.org/pdfs/Manuscript_Formatting.pdf with the following exceptions:
  
  • The submission should not exceed one page total, including the title and the list of authors.
  • Since this is only one page long, you should not include the one-paragraph overview ("Abstract") that would otherwise precede the submission's body.
  • Also omit the mailing address and telephone number of each author. Include each author's institutional affiliation and e-mail address.
  • The advisor, if listed, should appear last among the authors and should include the parenthesized word "advisor" following the name.
  • Questions should be referred to Dr. Carl Burch at cburch@cburch.com.
• The submission deadline is 5:00pm, Friday, February 29, 2008. To submit, e-mail the paper to ccsc@cburch.com. Dr. Burch will acknowledge receipt of the paper.
• Papers will be selected by the program committee based primarily on quality of the underlying work and the presentation. However, some consideration will also be given to including a diverse representation of colleges and universities. We anticipate notifying authors of their acceptance or rejection by March 14, 2008.
• Any acceptance is provisional, dependent on the presenter registering for and presenting at the conference.
• The paper will not appear in the official conference proceedings. Some copies of the submissions will be made available informally at the conference.
• For student papers, the conference presentation will be 15 minutes in length. For those who wish to use it, we anticipate that a Windows XP computer with Office 2007 and Internet access will be available, attached to a projector.

• For additional information contact
  
  Gabriel J. Ferrer, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
  Hendrix College
  1600 Washington Avenue
  Conway, Arkansas 72032
  ferrer@hendrix.edu
  (501) 450-3879 (office)
  http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~ferrer/