October 7 to 9, 2021 Live via Via Virtual Conference

This year's 4th Information and Computing Education Conference (CSP-ICE 2021) of the Special Interest Group on Information and Computing Education (SPICE) under the Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP) and hosted by Southern Leyte State University, is a back to back conference event in collaboration with the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIG-AI) and the Special Interest Group on Women In Computing (SIG-WIC).

ICE 2021 will have a hybrid format. In fact, for this year, we are in one with our country's primal direction: the "National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy", which provides an actionable guide on harnessing AI's potential to uplift Filipinos, our local industries, and our Economy. Connecting with this strategical direction, Day 1 will cover talks about shaping and aligning Computing Education with the Philippine AI Roadmap. Speakers from DTI, National Center for AI Research, will deliver active discussions. In response, the different Technical Panel members of the various Computing Programs from CHED will give out their proposed specialization tracks aligning to AI. In the afternoon, a workshop on Course exemplars sponsored by the different Centers of Excellence in IT/ Computing (UP D/B, DLSI, ADMU, NU, CITU, USJ-R, etc.).

Day 2, sponsored by the SIG-AI, will be a research presentation of submitted/ accepted papers on the topics but are not limited to:

1. Computing Education with specific attention to AI integration

§ Collaborative Learning

§ Courseware Development

§ Instruction Support Tools

§ Distance Learning

§ E-Learning

§ Knowledge-Based Systems

§ Learning and Content Management Systems

§ Mobile or Web-Based Learning

§ Technology for Teaching and Learning

§ Information Systems in Education

§ Social and Professional Issues in Computing

2. Artificial Intelligence

§ Machine Learning

§ Deep Learning

§ Reinforcement Learning

§ Robotics

§ Natural Language Processing

§ Computer Vision

§ Recommender Systems

§ Internet of Things

SIG-AI EasyChair conference submission page - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cspice2021. A conference proceeding will be produced, and selected papers as recommended by the program committee will be for inclusion in the Philippine Information Technology Journal (PITJ) for 2021. Deadline of submission: Sept 24, 2021.

Day 3, sponsored by SIG-WIC, will be the 7th ACM WiC-PH Celebration 2021, with its conference link - https://sites.google.com/.../home/community-engagement/wic

We invite all School Presidents, Directors/Deans/Heads of Computer Science Department/ College, College of Engineering IT Teacher and Students to attend this magnanimous event. Let us all remain steadfast and supportive of our Nation's defining capability in harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). And the best takeaway this year for us in Computing Education are the specialization tracks that we can use and integrate into our respective computing program deliveries. In addition, we will also be having a Consultative Session for the offering of the Bachelor of Science in Data Science, which the Commission on Higher Education will manage.

This event is FREE for CSP members. And if you are not, and you would want to attend, we encourage you to be a member by paying Php 800.00. For authors of accepted papers/ posters, the registration fee is Php 1,500.00. And for the undergraduate students, it's Php 100.00.

For other queries, please do contact our CSP-ICE 2021 Secretariat:

mobile number - 0956-264-7128 telephone numbers +63-02-920-2080 or +63-02-436-2217, fax number +63-02-920-2036, or email addresses acsaturinas@ittc.up.edu.ph or subscription@ittc.up.edu.ph.