As you are getting settled into your fall schedule we want to remind you that this November we will be having the 56th annual ACM Mid-Southeast Conference in beautiful Gatlinburg, TN.  We hope that you and your students will begin to plan and discuss possible presentations that you can make at this year’s conference.   We will be sending out a call for abstracts in early September.  For now just mark the date and begin making your plans to attend a wonderful conference and hear about all the great work people are doing.

We are also looking for anyone who would like to help organize and run this year’s conference. We will need help with program scheduling, session chairs, and judges.  If you can help out in any of these areas please contact the conference chair, Greg Kawell: (gakawell@samford.edu) or Kathy Winters(kathy-winters@utc.edu ).

The ACM Mid-Southeast Chapter Fall Conference provides a forum for discussion of current applications and experimental, theoretical and educational developments in all areas of computing. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

 Student papers are welcomed.  Student papers must be authored solely by students.  Monetary awards and individual plaques will be presented for the best graduate (masters and doctoral categories), undergraduate, and two-year institution student papers

Poster Presentations:

Last year we decided to do something new and have poster presentations.  We are trying this for the first time and will not be presenting awards for this category.  Space is limited and only 20 poster will be accepted.

Hotel Accommodations

If you know you will be attending this year’s conference you can reserve your room now.  Contact the Glenstone Lodge directly at 865-436-9361 or 1-800-362-9522 to make reservations.  Cost for the rooms is $89.  You should identify yourself as “Association for Computing Machinery”. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Glenstone Lodge with a cutoff date of October 24, 2014.