30 April 2007

A conference is being held this June to examine issues of accessibility surrounding education in computer science.

Taking place from June 25th to 27th, the 12th conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science will be hosted by the University of Dundee's School of Computing.

The event is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education and presented in coordination with ACM's Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS).

All of the programmes taking place will consider problems faced by disabled individuals in the sphere of technological advancement.

Dr Paul Curzon, Director of Communications for the Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, commented: "Computer science is about inventing new and innovative applications and solving real-world puzzles that affect people's lives."

SIGACCESS concerns itself with a number of barriers to technology, including those faced by individuals with cognitive, visual, auditory, motor and speech impairments and elderly persons.

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