A Survey of Some Recent Research at the Border of Game Theory, Economics and Computer Science

Location: Crestone Peak II – IV

Invited Technical Speaker: Anna Karlin, Professor, University of Washington, Seattle

The emergence of the Internet as one of the most important arenas for resource sharing between parties with diverse and selfish interests has led to a number of fascinating and new algorithmic problems and issues at the intersection of game theory, economics and computer science. In this talk, we survey recent research at this intersection, with a specific focus on the design and analysis of auctions.

Planning, Organizing, and Holding Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing

Location: Torreys Peak III

Presenters: Gloria Townsend (DePauw University), Bettina Bair (Ohio State University), Lecia Barker (NCWIT), Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines), J McGrath Cohoon (NCWIT), Laura K. Dillon (Michigan State University), Catherine Lang (Swinburne University of Technology), Khadija Stewart (DePauw University), Ellen Walker (Hiram College)

The presenters will discuss their experiences in planning, financing, organizing, running and assessing regional events for women. The presenters will also discuss barriers that they have overcome in accomplishing their goals, as well as practices that accelerate goal achievement. In addition, results of the international Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference will be briefly presented. Finally, we will emphasize a surprising side-effect we have discovered.

Letting the Cup Overflow: Expanding Your Experiences Outside Your Research Lab

Location: Quandary Peak I – II

Panelists:Mary Fernandez (AT&T Research), Kathleen Fisher (AT&T Research), Gilda Garreton (Sun Microsystems), Laura Haas (IBM) Moderator: Susan Landau (Sun Microsystems)

When you work in industry, the rewards are high for working on projects that the lab directors want. Following such a direction can be very rewarding within your organization, but it can also lead to research and/or professional isolation. How do you break those golden ties and establish connections to colleagues in the outside world? What are the rewards for doing so?

Evaluating Virtualization Performance via Benchmarking – Method and Practice

Location: Torreys Peak IV

Presenter: Lily Shi (IBM)

Nowadays going virtual is a hot trend in enterprise IT industry. This presentation will begin with an overview of virtualization technology and benchmarking. Then we will evaluate hardware system performance via the virtualization benchmarking tools. The presentation will also explore the many usages of the benchmarking to provide the audience a glimpse of what performance engineers do and how they can impact business.

Inspiring Girls in Technology: How to Make Every Outreach a Success

Location: Torreys Peak I – II

Presenters: Linda Kekelis (Chabot Space and Science Center), Shannon Madison (Google), Reena Singhal Lee (Google), Marie-Ange Eyoum (Intel)

This workshop brings together the expertise of Techbridge, Google, and Intel partners that have successfully collaborated and introduced many more girls to technology and engineering. Participants will receive guidance on how to organize a successful, impactful outreach event for girls and role models. They will also participate in hands-on activities and receive concrete and practical suggestions for conducting effective outreach. Please note this session is 90 minutes from 4:10 - 5:40 p.m.

SRC Competition – Finals

Location: Crestone Peak I

Presenters: Chosen Finalists from the Thursday Evening Poster Session 

The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees.

There are two rounds of competition at each conference hosting an SRC and a grand finals competition:First Round Competitions- The first round is usually referred to as the Poster Session. Judges will review the posters and speak to participants about their research; a group of semi-finalists will be chosen to present at the second round of the competition. Second Round Competitions - Semi-finalists continue by giving a short presentation of their research before a panel of judges, with a supporting power point presentation. Evaluations are based on the presenter’s knowledge of his/her research area, contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and visual presentation. Three winners will be chosen in each category, undergraduate and graduate, receiving $500, $300, and $200, respectively.
 

Skinware: Getting Innovation Out

Location: Quandary Peak III

Invited Speaker: : Janice H. Nickel, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

A revolutionary drug delivery technology is presented. Fusing high – tech with biotech, we have created a device enabling fine control over the delivery time and dose – leading to precise control of the drug concentration profile. The device is a programmable, painless injection technology utilizing microneedles. It will deliver one or more drugs in any desired sequence – sustained release, pulsatile delivery, chronotherapeutic delivery, and patient activated delivery – or any combination thereof – all this while avoiding the Gastrointestinal tract. The design utilizes HP’s mature ink – jet technology to address the $100 Billion drug delivery market. In addition, I will describe the odyssey traversed to get the medical technology into product development – including developing a business plan, the VC environment, funding options, valuation, and licensing. The technology was ultimately licensed to a medical device company, and was awarded the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Emerging Technology Award in Medical Devices.