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Revision Date: September 4, 2009
2009 Conference Information:
Program Schedule
Schedule at a Glance
Wednesday, September
30, 2009
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Start Time |
End Time |
Description |
Location |
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Ongoing |
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Free Wireless Internet Available in All Conference Areas. |
All GHC Meeting Spaces |
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Ongoing |
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Video Booth - sponsored by SAP |
Salon B Foyer |
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Ongoing |
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CONNECT Project – sponsored by ACM-W |
All GHC Meeting Spaces |
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8:00 am |
7:30 pm |
Registration Open |
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8:00 am |
7:30 pm |
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Continental Breakfast – Food & Beverage |
Ania Pavilion |
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8:00 am |
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CyberCafé - sponsored by HP |
Executive Boardroom 1 |
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9:00 am 5:30 pm |
5:00 pm 9:30 pm |
Childcare - sponsored by NetApp |
Infants Toddlers and up |
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Nursing Mothers Room |
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9:00 am |
9:30 am |
Welcome: Tracy Camp, GHC Program Chair |
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9:30 am |
10:30 am |
Various |
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10:30 am |
11:00 am |
Break – Food
& Beverage |
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11:00 am |
12:00 pm |
Various |
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12:00pm |
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General Lunch – Food & Beverage |
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CRA-W
Career Mentoring Workshops – sponsored
by CRA-W and the Henry Luce Foundation |
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1:00 pm 2:15 pm 2:30 pm 3:30 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm |
2:00 pm 2:30 pm 3:30 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm |
CRA-W Break CRA-W Break – Food & Beverage CRA-W Reception – sponsored by CRA-W and the Henry Luce Foundation |
Various San Ignacio Various San Ignacio Various San Ignacio |
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Jo Miller Sessions – sponsored by Cisco |
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2:15 pm 3:30 pm 3:45 pm |
3:30 pm 3:45 pm 5:00 pm |
Workshop – A Person of Influence Break – Food & Beverage Panel – A Person of Influence in Real Life |
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2:00 pm |
5:00 pm |
Resume Clinic – sponsored by Thomson Reuters |
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4:00 pm |
4:30 pm |
CONNECT Training for Sponsors and Exhibitors – sponsored by ACM-W |
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5:00 pm |
7:00 pm |
Latinas in Computing Reception – Sponsored by the Anita Borg Institute |
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5:30 pm |
7:00 pm |
LGBT Meetup – Sponsored by the Anita Borg Institute |
Salud Lounge |
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5:30 pm |
7:00 pm |
Advisory Board Reception (By Invitation Only) |
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5:30 pm |
9:00 pm |
Exhibits Open |
Arizona & Tucson Foyers |
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5:30 pm |
7:00 pm |
For the Newcomer – Meeting for First-Time GHC Attendees &
Scholarship Recipients – sponsored by NSA |
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7:00 pm |
9:00 pm |
Opening Reception & SRC Poster Competition
and General
Poster Session – hors
d'oeuvres
and cash bar. Poster session sponsored by Symantec. |
Ania Pavilion |
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8:00 pm |
10:00 pm |
Technical Executive Forum Reception (By Invitation Only) |
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9:00 pm |
10:00 pm |
“Hoppers Meeting”–Volunteer Orientation |
San Pedro 1-2 |
Thursday, October 1,
2009
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Start Time |
End Time |
Description |
Location |
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Ongoing |
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Free Wireless Internet Available in All Conference Areas |
All GHC Meeting Spaces |
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Ongoing |
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Video Booth - sponsored by SAP |
Salon B Foyer |
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Ongoing |
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CONNECT Project – sponsored by ACM-W |
All GHC Meeting Spaces |
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5:00 pm |
Registration Open |
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Keynote Breakfast – (By Invitation Only) – sponsored by Thomson
Reuters |
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7:00 am |
5:00 pm |
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5:30 pm |
CyberCafé – sponsored by HP |
Executive Boardroom 1 |
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Continental Breakfast – Food and Beverage |
Ania Pavilion |
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Nursing Mothers Room |
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8:00 am 6:00 pm |
6:00 pm 11:00 pm |
Childcare – sponsored by NetApp |
Toddlers and up Infants |
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Welcome: Heidi Kvinge, General Chair, Keynote Speaker: Megan Smith, Google.org |
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9:00 am |
9:30 am |
CONNECT Training for Sponsors and Exhibitors – sponsored by ACM-W |
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9:15 am |
5:30 pm |
Exhibits Open |
Arizona & Tucson Foyers |
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Break – Food and Beverage |
Ania Pavilion |
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10:00 am |
12:15 pm |
Technical Executive Forum (By Invitation Only) - sponsored by Symantec and Intel |
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Various |
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11:15 am |
12:15 pm |
Various |
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12:15 pm |
1:30 pm |
Main Conference Lunch – Food & Beverage |
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12:15 pm |
1:30 pm |
ResearcHers Lunch (Prior RSVP required) –
sponsored by AT&T |
Signature Grills Restaurant |
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12:15 pm |
1:30 pm |
Women of Color Lunch (Prior RSVP required)- Hosted by Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing - sponsored by Amazon and Raytheon |
Primo Restaurant |
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12:15 pm |
1:30 pm |
LGBT Lunch – sponsored by HP |
San Ignacio |
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12:15 pm |
1:30 pm |
Technical Executive Forum Lunch – (By Invitation Only) – sponsored
by Symantec and Intel |
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1:45 pm |
3:00 pm |
Technical Executive Plenary
Session – What You Need to Know on the Road to Becoming a
Technology Executive Panelists: Linda Brisnehan, Vice-President, Military
Support Programs, Lockheed Martin |
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3:00 pm |
3:15 |
Break – Food & Beverage for Technical Executive Forum |
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3:15 pm |
4:15 pm |
Various |
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3:15 pm |
5:30 pm |
Technical Executive Forum – Executive Workshop II. (By Invitation Only) - sponsored by Symantec and Intel |
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4:15 pm |
4:30 pm |
Break – Food & Beverage |
Ania Pavilion |
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4:30 pm |
5:30 pm |
Various |
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6:15 pm |
7:15 pm |
Awards Ceremony Reception – hors d'oeuvres & cash bar |
Arizona & Tucson Foyers, Ania Pavilion |
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Awards Ceremony Welcome: Heidi Kvinge, GHC General Chair, |
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Friday, October 2,
2009
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Start Time |
End Time |
Description |
Location |
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Ongoing |
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Free Wireless Internet Available in All Conference Areas |
All GHC Meeting Areas |
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Ongoing |
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Video Booth - sponsored by SAP |
Salon B Foyer |
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Ongoing |
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CONNECT Project – sponsored by ACM-W |
All GHC Meeting Areas |
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5:00 pm |
Registration Open |
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7:00 am |
5:00 pm |
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7:30 am |
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CyberCafé – sponsored by HP |
Executive Boardroom 1 |
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7:00 am |
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Continental Breakfast – Food & Beverage |
Ania Pavilion |
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7:00 am |
8:15 am |
Board Member & Advisory Board Breakfast (By Invitation Only) |
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10:30 pm |
Nursing Mothers Room |
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8:00 am 6:00 pm |
6:00 pm 10:30 pm |
Childcare – sponsored by NetApp |
Toddlers and up Infants |
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9:15 am |
4:00 pm |
Exhibits Open |
Arizona & Tucson Foyers |
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Welcome: Tracy Camp, Program Chair Keynote Speaker: Fran Berman, RPI |
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Break – Food & Beverage |
Ania Pavilion |
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Various |
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11:15 am |
12:15 pm |
Various |
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12:30 pm |
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Main Conference Lunch – Food & Beverage |
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12:30 pm |
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Latinas in Computing Lunch (Prior RSVP required) – sponsored by Lockheed Martin |
Signature Grills Restaurant |
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12:30 pm |
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Systers Lunch (Prior RSVP required) |
Primo Restaurant |
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12:30 pm |
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Faculty Lunch (Prior RSVP required) |
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12:30 pm |
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GHC Scholarship |
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12:30 pm |
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Fran Allen Career Mentoring Award Lunch (By Invitation Only) |
San Ignacio |
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12:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
ACM Lunch (By Invitation Only) |
San Xavier |
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1:45 pm |
2:45 pm |
Various |
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2:00 pm |
4:00 pm |
IGNITE Talks – Ignite Talks are short presentations given by various presenters working on outreach to various communities interested in collaboration. |
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3:00 pm |
4:00 pm |
Various |
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4:00 pm |
4:15 pm |
Break – Food & Beverage |
Ania Pavilion |
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4:15 pm |
5:15 pm |
Various |
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4:15 pm |
6:30 pm |
K12 Town Hall
Meeting – sponsored by NSF, the Motorola Foundation and IBM |
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5:30 pm |
6:30 pm |
Various |
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Sponsor Night – This is a networking event to celebrate the conclusion of the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration. Dinner will be served and there will be music and entertainment. Sponsored by the GHC Platinum Sponsors. Current sponsors are Google, Intel & Microsoft. |
Meecha & Tash Terraces |
Saturday, October
3, 2009
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Start Time |
End Time |
Description |
Location |
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Ongoing |
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Free Wireless Internet Available in All Conference Areas |
All GHC Meeting Areas |
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Ongoing |
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CONNECT Project – sponsored by ACM-W |
All GHC Meeting Areas |
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Continental Breakfast – Food & Beverage |
Ania Pavilion |
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Cyber Café – sponsored by HP |
Executive Boardroom 1 |
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Nursing Mothers Room |
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Childcare – sponsored by NetApp |
Toddlers and up Infants |
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Town Hall Meeting. Feedback and Discussion of GHC2010 with Program Co-Chairs. All are invited to participate. |
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8:00 am |
2:30 pm |
K12 Computing Teachers Workshop in partnership
with CSTA and the University of Arizona – sponsored by NSF, the Motorola
Foundation and IBM |
Marriott |
End of
Conference
Program Detail:
Wednesday,
September 30, 2009
9:30-10:30am
Location:
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Improving the User
Experience of Information Technologies In Residential Settings Presenter: Erika
S Poole (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Recently, a number
of researchers in human-computer interaction have begun to examine user
experience difficulties of networked computing in the home. Currently, we
know little about the nature of these difficulties, nor how householders cope
with overcoming them. For my dissertation work, I am conducting empirical
studies and designing software that attempts to improve the user experience
of setting up and maintaining information technologies at home. |
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Secure Distributed
Computation and Communication Presenter:
Arpita Patra (IIT Secure Multiparty
Computation (MPC) is simultaneously, a fundamental problem, both in
distributed computing and cryptography and models real-life applications like
E-Voting, Oblivious Transfer, Privacy-Preserving Database Operations etc. The
key primitives for designing MPC are: Verifiable Secret Sharing; Byzantine
Agreement; Reliable/Secure Message Transmission. Any effective solution for
these problems helps to arrive at efficient MPC solutions. My focus is to
carry on deeper research on these three problems along with MPC. |
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Automatic
Generation of Parallel Programs with Dynamic Scheduling on a Network-on-Chip Presenter: Jungsook
Yang ( As the
billion-transistor era approaches, the complexity increase in embedded systems
design prevents the efficient utilization of resources. Network-on-Chip (NoC)
has been introduced to interconnect multiple IP cores by packet switching
providing modularity, regularity and scalability. In this work, we propose an
application mapping framework and run-time load balancing strategies to fully
exploit the power of parallel processors that use a NoC for communication. |
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Discovery,
Generation and Analysis of Network Policy Configurations Presenter:
Taghrid Samak ( My thesis work has
three main parts: |
PhD Forum 2
Location: San Pedro 1-2
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Warehousing
Markovian Streams Presenter: Julie
Letchner ( This paper presents
LaharOLAP, a warehousing system for a common class of high-level, uncertain
streams derived from noisy, low-level data (e.g. location estimates derived
from RFID). I present novel indexing and compression techniques that improve
the efficiency of query processing on uncertain streams, and demonstrate
orders-of-magnitude speedup on a real-world RFID data warehouse. |
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Classroom Resources
and Impact on Learning Presenter: Margaret A Dickey-Kurdziolek (Virginia Tech) Technology has the
power to make life better and easier. Have we been able to prove the worth of
technology in education? Recent reports released by the United States
Department of Education imply that technology has no added value in
classrooms. This study and others call for more research on learning
resources, such as educational technologies. I am investigating what contexts
educational technologies can be used through in-depth case studies. |
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Augmenting
Autobiographical Memory Presenter:
Andrea Schweer (The Augmented
autobiographical memory systems aim to support people in remembering events
of their lives. My hypothesis is that it is beneficial for such systems to
take into account properties of human memory and thus combine context-awareness
with a typed graph model. To test my hypothesis, I am performing qualitative
end-user studies. I use task-based evaluation to address certain
characteristics of memory that make it difficult to employ standard
evaluation methods. |
New Investigators 1
– Smart Systems
Location: San Xavier
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A Path Based System
for Guidance in Pervasive Environment Presenter: Nova Ahmed (Georgia Institute of Technology) A guidance system in
a pervasive environment has many important applications e.g., guiding
visually impaired person, search and rescue applications. We propose an inexpensive,
scalable solution using RFID tags and readers. A system abstraction virtual
station (VS) is proposed that creates path abstraction among VSs to provide
adequate guidance information. We have presented the system architecture and
a proof of concept implementation. The evaluation of our system shows the
system feasibility. |
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Robust Iris
Recognition using Texture and Phase Features Presenter: Hunny
Mehrotra (National Institute of Technology This paper proposes
an efficient technique for iris using texture and phase features. Inner pupil
boundary is localized using dynamic thresholding technique and Circular Hough
Transform. Texture features are extracted on the normalized iris strip using
Haar Wavelet while phase features are obtained using LOG Gabor Wavelet. The
matching scores generated from individual modules are combined using weighted
sum of score technique. The combined system is giving an accuracy of 97.66%. |
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Retrieving
Cognitive Chunks from Graphical Tablet Drawing Presenter: Unaizah
Hanum Obaidellah ( Investigation is
made on the internal cognitive processes that occur in the working memory
while drawing operations are performed based on a complex abstract diagram.
The graphics tablet and inking pen are used to capture the drawings. Five
participants performed drawings on tracing, copying, recall from immediate
memory and recall from delayed memory. All participants' results converged on
an approach that exploits chunks and the use of spatial schemas. |
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Autonomic Power and
Performance Management for Large-scale Data Centers Presenter: Bithika Khargharia (Cisco Systems) With the rapid
growth of servers and applications spurred by the Internet, the power
consumption of servers has become critically important and must be
efficiently managed. This paper presents a theoretical and experimental
framework and general methodology for hierarchical autonomic
power/performance management in high performance distributed data centers. We
optimize for power & performance at each level of the data center
hierarchy. Our technique improves memory performance-per-watt by 88.48%. |
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New Investigators 2
– Privacy and Social Software
Location: San Ignacio
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Tugging at the
Seams: Understanding the Fabric of Social Sites Presenter:
Clare J. Hooper ( Social networking
websites are becoming increasingly popular, yet it can be difficult to
understand how people use these spaces. We present a systematic
deconstruction method which grants insight into the nature of a given
experience, and show how aspects of social networking functionality might be
reconstructed in different contexts. Providing social material in new
contexts would include more people in interactions which are currently
limited to the web. |
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The Knot or The
Noose? Analysis of Privacy on a Wedding Planning Web site Presenter:
Katie A. Siek ( At any time, at least 2.4 million couples are planning
their weddings. The Knot, an online wedding planning resource, helps couples
plan their weddings with personalized online web-pages called bios. The
amount of information varies in each bio, however some bios have enough
information to help malicious third parties create phishing schemes, identity
thefts, cancellation problems, and robberies. This paper presents a
statistical analysis of privacy concerns for Knot members. |
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Presenter: Julia Grace (IBM Research) As social networks
increase in popularity, we see a rise in corporate adoption of enterprise
social networking tools. We examine social networks in the enterprise, beginning
with the role of social tools within corporations and the motivations and
concerns corporations have regarding social networks. We provide an overview
of enterprise social networks, new trends including microblogging, and the
research surrounding such tools, concluding with a discussion of open
problems. |
Back
to Schedule at a Glance
Wednesday, September 30th
11:00-12:00pm
Location:
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Providing Gbps/User
Connectivity in WLANs Presenter: Candy
Yiu ( In this paper, we
present two SDMA algorithms that exploit the peculiar propagation properties
of 60GHz. We show that in typical indoor environments, one access point can
deliver over 8 gbps total throughput while using only 640 MHz of the
bandwidth. We generalize the algorithms to the case when multiple channels
are available and show that with seven channels, we get aggregate throughput
of over 31 gbps. |
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Towards the Semi-automated
Presenter:
Natalia Villanueva-Rosales ( Despite the enormous
amount of biological knowledge available on the web, automated answering of
questions remains an outstanding challenge. The Semantic Web addresses this
challenge by enabling the representation of knowledge in a machine
understandable way using ontologies. Unfortunately, the design and population
of ontologies is still a manual and cumbersome process. To speed up this
task, our research aims to develop semi-automated approaches including
ontology extraction from databases. |
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Dynamic Clustering
and Visualization using Swarm Intelligence Presenter: Esin
Saka ( Clustering and
visualizing high-dimensional sparse data simultaneously is a very attractive
goal, yet it is also a challenging problem. Moreover, dynamic domains, such
as practically any data generated on the Web, may require frequent costly
updates of the clusters (and the visualization), whenever the dataset changes
(e.g. new data records are added to the dataset). This research proposes
solutions to these problems using a swarm-based approach. |
PhD Forum 4
Location: San Pedro 1-2
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An n-gram Based
Approach to the Classification of Web Pages by Genre Presenter: Jane
E. Mason ( The extraordinary
growth in both the size and popularity of the World Wide Web has created a
growing interest not only in identifying Web page genres, but also in using
these genres to classify Web pages. This thesis hypothesizes that an n-gram
representation of a Web page can be used to automatically classify that Web
page by genre and a new model for the classification of Web pages is
presented. |
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Ant Colony
Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications Presenter: Sameena
Shah (Indian Institute of Technology Ant colony
optimization is a new paradigm for solving problems that can be reduced to
finding short paths, based on how real ants find the shortest path to a food
source. It finds good paths using distributed decisions, local information
and indirect communication. Hence, ACO has found numerous applications for
eg. Traveling Salesman Problem, routing etc. But it doesn’t always find the
optimal solution. Why? How can this be reverted? |
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Using Layout
Information to Enhance Security on the Web Presenter: Terri
Oda ( Web security lies
primarily in the hands of those who create the pages. Unfortunately many
people and organizations that run web sites do not have the time, security
knowledge, or motivation to produce secure sites. As a result, users are
frequently exposed to insecure pages. My research investigates ways to
protect users using existing information from the page layout to produce good
security policy without requiring an expert. |
New Investigators 3 – Network & Program Monitoring
Location: San Xavier
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Information
Checking Protocols Presenter:
Arpita Patra (IIT Information Checking
Protocol (ICP) is a tool for authenticating messages in the presence of
computationally unbounded corrupted parties. It is one of the key primitives
used in secure distributed computing tasks like secure multiparty
computation, Byzantine Agreement, Verifiable Secret Sharing. Here, we first
provide a literature survey on different ICPs and then present an ICP in
synchronous network which provides the best round and communication
complexity among all existing ICPs. |
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DPI based Forensic
Analysis of Network Traffic using Grid Infrastructure Presenter:
Jyotsana Sharma ( Security threats to
network systems have become highly sophisticated which the traditional
solutions fail to identify. Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) based Forensic
Analysis of network traffic allows in-depth analysis of anomalies which
otherwise might go unnoticed. This paper proposes the utilization of Grid
Infrastructure for performing this resource intensive task, while providing
several benefits, the most significant one being the reduction in energy
consumption, thereby providing a more environment friendly solution. |
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Combining Monitors
through Assume Guarantee Reasoning Presenter: Haiqiong
Yao ( Runtime monitoring
provides the confidence of the implementation of the system. It prefers to
check simple properties since the process of verification consumes the
resources limited in a machine. But monitoring multiple properties in a
single large monitor is error-prone. Cooperation of several smaller monitors
instead of a single one is reasonable. We propose an approach to applying
assume-guarantee reasoning in combining monitors to guarantee the soundness
of runtime monitoring. |
CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops Session #1
1:00-2:00 pm
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Session
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For
Undergraduate Student: CSE is
for You: Innovation, Flexibility and Exciting Opportunities. Innovation is central to many jobs in computer
science and engineering. You get the opportunity to create new technology that
helps others. The creativity, innovation, and fast pace of CSE mean that life
will never be boring. Jobs are quite varied, so there’s a place for someone
who wants to work alone or in small teams, and for someone who wants to spend
most of her time working with people to make the world a better place. Work
location, hours, and travel tend to be flexible, so you can often find a job
that fits your goals and style. This session highlights various career paths,
along with strategies for successful preparation for them. Presenters: Soha Hassoun ( |
San Pedro 1-2 |
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For
Graduate Students: This session will address strategies for
surviving and, in fact, thriving in graduate school and developing the
necessary knowledge, experience and skills for a successful career. Topics
include setting realistic goals and expectations, the differences between
getting a M.S. and Ph.D. degree, selecting advisors and mentors, setting research
goals, working as part of a research team, tracking and maintaining your
research and academic progress, and building self confidence. This session
will include the importance of carefully choosing advisors and mentors and
the differences between the two, how to get the most out of your interactions
with your advisor/mentor, responsibilities of both student and advisor/mentor
in making the graduate research experience successful, and working through
problems with the advisor/mentor relationships. Presenter: Yvonne Coady ( |
San Luis 1-2 |
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For
Early Career Researchers: Growing
Your Research Program. Whether you are in academia or a research lab,
growing your research program means tapping into resources that help you
become more successful. Funding can enable you to attract more students, or
work on larger projects. Collaboration enables you to work with people
outside your area of expertise, initiate new projects, and have a lot of fun.
Networking builds those relationships with people inside and outside your
institution that can help you get things done. With representatives from both
academia and research labs, this session will cover strategies for
identifying the resources that are available to you and how best to take
advantage of them. Presenters: Cecilia Aragon ( |
San Xavier |
CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops #2
2:30-3:30 pm
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Session Information |
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For Undergraduates: The
Road to What are the options for pursuing advanced
degrees in computer science and engineering? How do you choose the right
graduate school for you? Is there anything you can do during college to
improve your chances of being admitted? How do you apply? What is the time
line for completing the application process? What are the best kinds of
recommendations? Does work experience help? How can you fund graduate school?
Find out the answers to these and other questions in this session which will
tell you all you need to know to apply successfully to graduate school. Presenters: Jodi Tims ( |
San Pedro 1-2 |
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For
Graduate Students: Networking
and Professional Development. This session will help you find a community,
meet people in the field, and promote your research and yourself. You will
learn how to present your ideas in a concise and appealing way to the people
you meet. You will gain skill in making technical and business connections
with others, and leveraging them for success in graduate school and your
later career. Presenter: Susanne Hambrusch ( |
San Luis 1-2 |
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For
Early Career Researchers: Work/Life
Balance. There is never enough time for all the things we
want to have in life: a successful career, good relationships with spouse and
family, hobbies and outside interests. When we spend time on one of these things,
we feel guilty about letting the other areas down. The key is to have a
balance — panelists in this session will tell you about what they have done
to achieve balance in their lives. Is it possible to turn off the email for a
few hours? Should you hire a housekeeper or a nanny? How do you best set work
priorities and schedule your time? Where can you trim your time commitment,
and what efforts should never be cut? Can you live with being less than
perfect in your work? Speakers: Carla Ellis ( |
San Xavier |
CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops #3
4:00-5:00 pm
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Session Information |
Location |
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For
Undergraduate Students: The Is graduate school in computer science and
engineering for you? What’s it like to pursue a Masters or PhD degree? What
benefits do you get once you have the degree? This session will help you
understand what it like to be in graduate school, and the exciting options
you’ll have when you finish. Graduate students, faculty, and graduates will
share their experiences with you. Presenters: Eleni Stroulia ( |
San Pedro 1-2 |
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For
Graduate Students: Publishing Your Research. Publishing is not as hard as it seems. This session discusses strategies for publishing your first and subsequent papers. It covers some patterns that research papers follow, and the ethical concerns of publishing such as plagiarism, dual submissions, and author ordering. You will learn about the different kinds of publications, and the procedures for being published there. We will also share some tips for how to stick to it, despite challenges like writer’s block. Presenter: Lori
Clarke ( |
San Luis 1-2 |
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For
Early Career Researchers: Preparing for Promotion. Do you know what steps you need to take to
prepare for your next promotion? Whether this is preparing a tenure case,
climbing the technical ladder, or stepping into a management role, this
session will teach you what you can be doing now to prepare yourself for that
next big promotion. Presenters: Dilma da Silva ( |
San Xavier |
Thursday, October 1st
Session One
10:00am - 11:00am
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Session Detail |
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Invited Technical Speaker Building a Smarter Planet Josephine Cheng, IBM Fellow and Vice President, We are at an extraordinary moment in history: a
major political transition in the These collective realization has reminded us
that we are all now connected – economically, technically and socially. Free
trade agreements, the Internet and the arrival of globalization are making
the world simultaneously smaller and flatter. In this presentation, I shall
discuss the research activities at IBM Almaden Research to support a smarter
planet by providing: smart energy and water, smart healthcare, smart business
and smart workforce. |
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Academic Track Best Practices for
Introductory Computer Science Panelists:
Ursula Wolz (The The objective of the
panel is to discuss the use of non-traditional teaching techniques, tools, and
curricular approaches to reach a wider audience of potential computer science
students. Our collective efforts are to identify the range of learning
environments that attract women and other under-represented groups to our
discipline in a manner that doesn’t “dumb down” what and how we teach. |
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Track Communicating
Powerfully Across Gender Presenter: Linda M Garverick (Coactive Consultants) “Communicating
Powerfully Across Gender” is a workshop in which participants will gain
awareness of gendered communication styles and learn skills to communicate
powerfully in male-dominated environments. Drawing mainly from the work of
Deborah Tannen, participants will learn how speech patterns differ between
men and women and what habits and speech patterns create misperception and
disempowerment. Participants will complete a self-assessment and experiment
with increasing their conversational range. |
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Technical Track Designing Systems
that Gain Public Trust: Simplicity, Transparency, and Security in e-Voting
Systems Presenters:
Kathy S Faggiani ( Few technological
developments have spurred the level of public distrust generated by e-voting
systems in the AND A Cryptographic
Solution for Patient Privacy in Electronic Health Records Panelists: Melissa Chase (Microsoft Research), Josh Benaloh (Microsoft Research), Kristin Lauter (Microsoft Research) Electronic health
records have the potential to vastly improve health care; however, they also
introduce new and severe security and privacy concerns. This presentation
will first discuss the issue of privacy in electronic health records systems,
then present several recent developments in cryptography, and describe how
they can be used to provide patients with stronger privacy guarantees and
more control over their private health information. |
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Theme Track Developing
Sustainable Technologies for an Improved Future Panelists: Divya Naidu Kolar Sunder (Intel Corporation), Mala Devlin (Cisco Systems), Leslie Thompson (Intel Corporation), Sudesna Dash (Sun Microsystems), Kathleen Fiehrer (Intel Corporation) Considering the
"research, production and consumption" lifecycle for a technology;
women engineers can contribute to each of these phases in innovative ways to
maximize social impact with minimal environmental footprint. Sometimes, it is
the state of social, environment, global issues that often keep them
motivated to continue developing technology. This panel will focus on such
innovative, sustainable methods the industry is pursuing in each of the
technology life cycle phases. |
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Student Track A Wide Career Lens
– Recognizing the Options Moderator: Phyllis Stewart Pires (SAP) Panelists: Maria Olson (SAP), JeanAnn Nicols (Intel), Alysia Andrikopoulos (Google), Betty Chan-Bauza (LifeLock) Do you have a clear
understanding of your strengths and how best to align those to career
opportunities? This panel will explore how best to identify your skills and
strengths, how to create a career roadmap that is flexible and responds to
the opportunities available, and finally how to identify creative career options
to match your skills and strengths based on the varied careers represented by
the panel. |
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Recommendation Track MAGICal Learnings from 1-1 Mentoring of Middle School Girls Panelists: Ira Pramanick (Google), Foz Saeed (GetMagic Corporation), Liz Daoust (Girls' Middle School) This panel will
present learnings from 1-1 mentoring of middle school girls, done as part of
the pilot for the MAGIC (http://www.getmagic.org) program. The goal of MAGIC
is to expose the power of STEM to middle and high school girls through 1-1
mentoring, thereby encouraging them to pursue careers in STEM. Perspectives
of both mentors and mentees will be presented, and program organizers will
discuss key learnings from the pilot. |
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CRA-W/CDC Robotics
Workshop Session One Engineering
Self-Organizing Systems Presenter:
Radhika Nagpal ( Biological
systems, from embryos to social insects, get tremendous mileage by using vast
numbers of cheap and unreliable individuals to achieve complex goals. We are
also rapidly building new kinds of distributed systems with similar
characteristics, from multi-modular robots and robot swarms, to vast sensor
networks. Can we achieve the kind of complexity and self-repair that nature
achieves? How do we engineer robust collective behavior? In this talk, I will
describe several projects from my group where we have used inspiration from
nature — termites, fireflies, and cells — to design new kinds of robots and
networks. For example, simple robots that collectively build structures
without explicit communication, self-adaptive modular robots that respond to
the environment, and wireless sensor networks that use firefly-inspired
algorithms to achieve high throughput. In each case, we use inspiration from
biology to design simple decentralized cooperation, and techniques from
computer science to analyze and generalize these algorithms to new tasks. A common theme in all of
our work is understanding self-organizing multi-agent systems: how does robust
collective behavior arise from many locally interacting agents, and how can
we systematically program simple agents to achieve the global behaviors we
want. Nature has many lessons to teach us. |
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Speaker Citizen Engineer -
Become One Presenter: Greg Papadopoulos (Sun Microsystems) Engineering is no
longer solely concerned with finding a simple, elegant way to implement a set
of design requirements. Success is no longer solely measured by the speed and
efficiency with which design specs are met. Technological prowess and
ingenuity are no longer enough. Engineers now need knowledge of subjects
beyond the scope of traditional engineering. A successful engineer needs to
be part environmentalist, part IP attorney, part MBA, and part diplomat – all
while being an expert in an engineering discipline, a great teammate and a
skilled communicator. Recent trends are
also redefining the role of the engineer in society, a trend that could
potentially be more attractive for women’s participation and leadership. The
increasing complexity of products leads to greater dependence on engineering,
yet most people don’t understand engineering, nor the underlying sciences and
technologies. That can be frightening to the general public and lead to bad
public policy and misconceptions that can hold back new innovations. There is
a pressing need for engineers to become more proactive with society – to
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Session Two
11:15 – 12:15
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Technical Speaker Lessons Learned in the Course of
Addressing Real World Problems Through Research Jen Mankoff, Associate Professor in the Human Computer
Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon Over the course of my career, I have
always felt the need to let real world problems drive my selection of
research problems. Some examples include making computers more accessible to
individuals who have difficulty typing, engaging individuals in energy-saving
behaviors, and exploring how individuals with chronic illness select online
content that is trustworthy. I will discuss some
of this work, describing how the application area was selected, what research
problems arose from the application area, and how I balanced between
competing needs such as real-world meaning and research-worthiness. I will
conclude with some lessons learned about how application-driven research can mesh
with long term and short term research career goals. |
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Academic Track The Value of Awards
and How to Get Them Panelists: Katy Dickinson (Sun Microsystems), There are hundreds
of awards available to women in computing, including: MIT's TR35, ACM Hopper
Award, Senior Member or Fellow of ACM, IEEE, or National Academy, ABI's Women
of Vision awards. What difference does it make if you get awards? What awards
are appropriate for your career? How do we ensure that more women students,
professionals, and academics will get into the queue and on the lists of
those honored? |
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Industry
Track The Imposter Panel Panelists: Shamsi T. Iqbal (Microsoft Research), Jennifer Tour Chayes (Microsoft), Rachel Weinstein Petterson (Google), Nancy M. Amato (Texas A&M), Tanzeem Choudury (Dartmouth College), Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft Research), Amy Karlson (Microsoft Research) The "imposter
syndrome" is a common yet typically unacknowledged condition where those
experiencing it have difficulties believing in and internalizing their own
accomplishments. The panel will provide an opportunity for audience members
to see that they are not alone in having “imposter” fears, and to hear how
the distinguished panelists have coped with and surmounted challenges in
self-confidence. |
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Technical Track Opportunities and
Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research Panelists: Judy
Olson (UC Irvine), Aisling Kelliher ( The objective of the
panel is to discuss best practices, challenges, and benefits of conducting
interdisciplinary research. We will focus on how to promote and establish
collaborations and how to involve both undergraduate and graduate students in
interdisciplinary research. We will also address issues of promotion and
tenure, funding, and finding positions as interdisciplinary scientists. |
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Theme Track Women and the Flat
Connected World Panelists: Meenakshi
Kaul-Basu (Sun Microsystems), Bev Crair (Quantum Corporation), Claudia Galván
(Microsoft Corporation), Kristin Yvonne Rozier (NASA), Lydia Ash (Google),
Radha Ratnaparkhi (IBM), Sumitha Prashanth (Sun Microsystems) Globalization has
forced companies to create new processes to empower distributed teams to
collaborate. It could mean that individuals have to travel for longer periods
of time across the globe, work at odd hours, and work from home or make other
adjustments to accommodate a new working lifestyle. |
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Student Track Landing a Job and
Succeeding in Industry: Bridging the gap between in-class learning and
job-related skills Panelists:
Diane Curtis (Microsoft), Hilary Pike (Microsoft), Helene Crowfoot (IEEE
Computer Society), Jackie Shuler (Electronic Arts), Alison Young (Unitec) This panel discusses
the gap between in-class learning and job-related skills and presents a
number of ideas for students to effectively use their out-of-class time to
bridge this gap. We will emphasize resume-building experiences to help
candidates distinguish themselves from the college-hire crowd with specific
emphasis on how building technology for social good can help them. After this
session, you'll have an outline of next steps towards landing a job. |
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Steering Committee
Recommendation in Cooperation with the Tapia Celebration of Diversity in
Computing Women of
Color: Identifying and Discussing the Unique Issues Panelists: Valerie
Taylor (Texas A&M), Tiki L
Suarez-Brown (Florida A&M University), Anne Quiroz-Gates (University of
Texas, El Paso), Jamika Burge (Pennsylvania State University), Monica
Martinez-Canales (Intel) The Coalition to
Diversify Computing (CDC – www.cdc-computing.org),
a joint organization of the ACM, CRA, and IEEE-CS, organized this panel to
provide an open discussion about effective environments and career paths that
lead to success for women of color. CDC organizes the Richard Tapia
Celebration of Diversity in Computing. The panelists will discuss
issues relevant to support mechanisms and climates that are necessary for
women of color to thrive. Further, the panelists will discuss their
particular career paths, identifying issues that still need to be addressed. |
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Workshop Session Two Living
Better with Robots Presenter:
Cynthia Breazeal
(MIT) The emerging field of Human-Robot
Interaction is undergoing rapid growth, motivated by important societal challenges
and new applications for robotic technologies for the general public. In this
talk, I present five projects currently under development in the Robotic Life
Group at the Media Lab. Two projects explore “invisible robot” applications
where we have integrated robotic technologies into everyday artifacts like
clothing or desktop computers, and the rest focus on more anthropomorphic
social robots and interactive game characters. These projects are motivated
by the promise of social robotics and related technologies to play a
beneficial role in the daily lives of people. An important goal of this work
is to leverage scientific understanding of human brains, bodies, and behavior
to design robotic technologies that can enhance human performance, learning,
communication, and quality of life. Specific applications in eldercare,
health, education, and social networking will be highlighted. |
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Session Three
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Technical Speaker Assistive Technology for People
with Cognitive Impairment: The Present and the Future Martha Pollack, Dean and Professor, We are in the midst of a profound demographic
shift, moving from a world in which the majority of people are relatively
young, to one in which a significant proportion are over the age of 65. This
change poses both a challenge and an opportunity for the design of
intelligent technology: while many older adults will remain healthy and
productive, overall older adults have higher rates of physical and cognitive
impairment. Advances in two areas of computer science—wireless sensor
networks and AI inference strategies—have made it possible to envision a wide
range of technologies that can improve the lives of people with disabilities. This talk will focus on assistive technology for people with cognitive
impairment. Such technology can provide information that helps a person
navigate through her environment, when she might otherwise be disoriented;
can issue personalized reminders for daily tasks that might be forgotten; and
can perform in-home assessment of a person’s performance of routine
activities, alerting her and her caregivers to changes that may indicate a
need for professional evaluation. I will describe a range of projects on
assistive technology for cognition, stressing in particular the need for such
systems of being highly individualized and responsive to the changing capabilities
and demands of their users. |
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Academic Track Time is on My Side:
Practical Tools for Managing Your Time Presenter: Rebecca DeWitt (Lockheed Martin Corporation) The 'Time
Management' module will show participants how to focus on distinguishing between
what’s critical and what’s significant. It will also equip students with the
necessary skills and tools required to identify distractions and
interruptions and discuss possible solutions. Participants will be taught via
hands-on experience how to create plans based on priorities. |
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Industry Track How we did it:
Breaking through the Glass Ceiling Panelists:
Karin Meyer (Intuit), Debra Danielson (CA), Catherine C. Lasser (IBM), Nadia
Shouraboura (Amazon), Jeanne Yuen (Intel) Women in technology
fields are consistently underrepresented in senior level positions. Although
women represent a smaller portion of the entry level workforce than men in
high tech fields, their numbers decline disproportionately with increased
seniority. This panel of female technical executives will share obstacles and
opportunities they have encountered in their careers along with advice and
inspiration on how to break through barriers. |
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Technical Track Open Source
Community Development Panelists:
Teresa Giacomini (Sun Microsystems), Valerie Bubb Fenwick (Sun Microsystems),
Silona Bonewald (League of Technical Voters), Sandy Payette (Duraspace),
Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Kathryn Vandiver (NetApp), Mary Colvig
(Mozilla) The open source software
movement has changed how products are developed, and how communities interact.
The community of developers, writers, users, academics, managers and
evangelists is critical to open source. In fact, the community is sometimes
more important than the software. How do communities grow? Through
traditional marketing? How is trust among engineers built? What shapes a
community's culture? What infrastructure does a community need? How do these
needs change? |
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Theme Track Three Key Areas for
Gender and IT Reform: Uncovering Bias in Recommendation Letters, Patenting
& Technical Innovation Processes, and Broadening Organizational Cultures Panelists:
Joanne McGrath Cohoon ( This interactive panel will inform attendees about social science research findings on three topics: the influence implicit gender bias has on recommendation letters; the form and extent of women’s participation in IT patenting, and the value of diverse teams; and necessary ingredients for organizational change. The objective is increased knowledge and skills for improving the quality of women’s participation and increasing the pace of women’s advancement in computing. |
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Student Track Have You Considered
Becoming an Entrepreneur? Panelists: Baat Enosh
(NCWIT), Sandy Jen (Meebo), Megan Casey (Squidoo), Shaherose Charania (Women
2.0), Kjerstin Erickson (Forge) Instead of
interviewing after graduation, some decide to start their own company. Join
us and get inspired by women who decided to go the entrepreneurial route.
Either straight after school, or shortly after, they chose the excitement of
creating something new. We will learn about tech startups and social change,
and help dissolve any concerns associated with being an entrepreneur. Come
and get excited about the new age of entrepreneurship. |
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Steering Committee
Track Recommendation SRC Competition (Second
Round) 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. |
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CRA-W/CDC Robotics
Workshop Session Three Panel
on Career Paths in Robotics Panel Chair:
Maria Gini ( Junior researchers
working in industry, research labs, and academia will talk about their
career, reflecting on the journey that has taken them to their current
position and providing insights on jobs and career opportunities in robotics. |
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Session 4 - Birds of a Feather Sessions/SRC/Robotics
4:30pm
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Birds
of a Feather Session Women In the
Defense Industry Presenter:
Lynne Miller, Raytheon The objective of
this Birds of a Feather session is to build a support network and share
issues of women currently working or preparing to work in the defense
industry. |
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Birds of a Feather
Session Inspiring Girls in
Technology: Making Every Outreach a Success Panelists: Reena
S Lee (Google), Linda Kekelis (Techbridge), Shannon Madison (Google), Martha
Pena (Techbridge), Marie Anaya (Techbridge) This BOF session
brings together the expertise of Techbridge and Google, partners that have
successfully collaborated and introduced girls to technology and engineering.
The facilitators will provide guidance on how to organize an influential
outreach event for K-12 girls, while drawing on the participants'
experiences. The session includes an Outreach Fair showcasing effective K-12
hands-on activities; participants are encouraged to bring examples of
hands-on activities to share during the Fair. |
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Birds of a Feather
Session Support Groups for
Women in STEM: International Perspectives Panelists: Kate
Tsoukalas ( Retaining women in
STEM fields has been a challenge globally. Studies suggest that peer support,
mentoring, and female role models help. This session brings together student
leaders from around the world to discuss the strategies and challenges of
building and sustaining support groups. Are these groups working? Surprising
results from our research will be presented in this interactive discussion
with group leaders. Supplementary information is also available at
http://sites.google.com/site/stemgroupsatghc09/. |
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Birds of a Feather
Session Imagining Together:
Using Technology and Extreme Ideas to Solve the Toughest Problems of the
World Panelists: Lani
Fraizer ( Imagine a world
without poverty, hunger and disease; greater survival prospects for future
generations, better educated children, equal opportunities for women, and a
healthier environment; a world in which developed and developing countries
worked in partnership for the betterment of all. Now imagine that you are
part of the solution. This session serves as a forum for techno-social
students, educators and professionals to discuss strategies and technologies
for social change. |
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Birds of a Feather
Session Baby Loading,
Please Wait: Pregnancy, Panelists:
Laurian C. Vega (Virginia Tech), Mara Silva (Virginia Tech) Research has shown
that babies do matter when working within and graduating from academia. Not
only does bias play a part, but also managing new responsibilities on top of
work-life balance presents new challenges. In this panel we will discuss
whether graduate school is a ‘good’ time to become pregnant, and what should
future mothers know about pregnancy? Our goal is to create a semi-informal
discussion and raise awareness. |
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Birds of a Feather
Session Breaking Free:
Creating and Innovating Like No One Else Panelists: Joann
Ordille (Avaya Labs Research), Maria Gini ( Where does our next
great idea come from? What is creativity? How does it happen? Can it be
encouraged? In this Birds of a Feather Session, we will brainstorm about the
aspects of creativity, experiment with exercises to spark it, and share our
experiences of creativity and innovation. We will also discuss creativity
design tools, and how they might be used to spur innovation. |
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Steering Committee
Track Recommendation SRC Competition
(Second Round) 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. |
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CRA-W/CDC Robotics
Workshop Session Four Challenges and
Results of Multi-Robot and Multi-Human Systems Speaker: Manuela
Veloso (Carnegie Mellon) We envision humans
coexisting with robots - such vision offers many technical challenges but
also opportunities for robot development. In this talk, I overview the
problems and results in multi-robot robot perception, cognition,
communication, and action. I illustrate planning and coordination algorithms
with our robot soccer teams. I then introduce the opportunities for robots to
observe and learn from implicit or explicit guidance from humans. I present a
recently successful autonomous indoor robot, CoBot, that acts as a visitor's
companion. CoBot includes a symbiotic interaction approach to capture
complementary limitations and expertise of humans and robots. The talk
concludes with a discussion of the main interesting research questions in
multi-robot, multi-human environments. |
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Session Five
10:00am – 11:00 am
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Technical Speaker: TakeBacktheTech:
Reclaiming Technology to End Violence Against Women Chat Garcia Ramilo,
Global
Coordinator of the Association for Progressive Communications’ Women’s
Networking Support Program Women all over the world are discovering the
potency of technologies and using them in advancing their rights especially
in the campaign to end violence against women. Advocacy to stop violence
against women is a powerful force that has freed women from harm and abuse.
To this day however, violence continues to be a reality for many women. This presentation is about how technology is changing the ways women
experience and confront violence. To some extent, technologies have aided
perpetrators in harassing, exerting control and even inflicting harm through
mobile devices, spy software, email tampering, tiny surveillance cameras, GPS
technologies, cyber stalking and misogyny in virtual reality environments. On
the other hand, the internet has been creatively used by women in poorly
resourced countries with limited access to technology. Girls in As tech-savvy women, we have a role to play in shaping technologies to
keep women safe. Technology practice is as much part of creating technology
as is engineering and design. How can we demand more of technology and use it
to protect, exercise and advance women’s rights? |
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Academic Track Becoming an
Academic Leader Panelists: Lori
Pollock ( The goal of the
panel is to discuss how a faculty member can move to the level of leadership
within their university or research community. Examples include becoming
department chair, dean, major committees within the university, or organizing
and managing large research grants or centers on campus or with other
universities. |
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Industry Track Technical
Mentorship and Sponsorship: Why You Need It and How to Find It Panelists: Raquel Romano (Google), Erin Chapple (Microsoft), Jennifer El (Symantec), Leah Melvoin (Amazon), Ira Pramanick (Google), Cathleen Wharton (Sun Microsystems) Did you know that
the odds of being promoted at any level of your career are dramatically
increased when you have a "sponsor" with a seat at the
decision-making table who can advocate on your behalf? But this can only
happen if that sponsor has detailed knowledge of your body of work, thought
processes, decision-making skills, and technical strengths. This panel is
dedicated to helping you find such a mentor. |
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Technical Track From Spec. to
Silicon: Successful Validation of a Server-class SoC Microprocessor Presenter: Manisha Hardikar (Sun Microsystems) Transformation in
the computing landscape is resulting in unprecedented levels of silicon
integration, with an incredible amount of functionality packed into server
processors. The trend for system-on-chip (SoC) designs has created challenges
for verifying functional correctness and validation of operation before
shipping server products to customers. AND Performance
Benchmarking through the Lifecycle of Chip Development Panelists: Meenakshi Kaul (Intel Corporation), Jeni Panhorst (Intel Corporation) Performance
benchmarking is the lifeblood of product development, playing a crucial role
in product architecture, design, and optimization, as well as marketing and
customer communication. It starts when the product is just an idea on a
whiteboard and continues until long after the product is in customers' hands.
This presentation will focus on the benchmarking of microprocessors,
including the motivations behind benchmarking, selection of benchmarks,
benchmarking methodology, and unique challenges. |
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Theme Track The “F word”: The
Uneasy Relationship Between Feminism and Technology Presenters:
Jill Patrice Dimond (Georgia Institute of Technology), S. Revi Sterling ( Did you know that we
are in a 3rd wave of feminism, and one of its most active arenas is
technology? Yet, at most women and computing events, feminism is rarely
discussed, while its principles are embraced. Why is the F word scary to
women? In this panel, we will discuss the current state of feminist theory --
such as “technofeminism” and “Third-wave feminism” -- and questions that it
invokes. |
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Student Track Women Researching
Women: Gateways to Technology-enabled Socio-economic Development Panelists: Julie S. Weber (University of Michigan and Microsoft Research), Divya Ramachandran (University of California at Berkeley), Nithya Sambasivan (University of California at Irvine), Ilda Ladeira (University of Cape Town) An important agenda
in the developmental discourse is the empowerment of women. This panel will
focus on women as researchers and women as target populations, presenting
three case studies of women researching women in developing regions within |
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Steering
Committee Track Recommendation Change Agent Awards
Panel – sponsored by Google The Anita Borg Change Agent Awards celebrate the
accomplishments of technical women from emerging countries. These awards are
designed to recognize up-and-coming leaders that impact or advance women’s
participation in technology, while also internationally expanding the reach
of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. This panel
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Session Six
11:15am – 12:15pm
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Human-Centered Design Research Brenda Laurel, Professor and Chair
Graduate Program in Human-centered design research methods serve two
vital purposes in the world of design. The first has to do with the ethos of
the designer. The notion of the designer as a Great Man (or Woman) still
haunts the design field, even though we have largely passed into an era of
collaboration – primarily because of the increasingly transdisciplinary
nature of design work. A degree of humility and a great deal of curiosity are
required of today’s designers. Who are these people for and with whom we
design? The second vital purpose of human-centered design research lies in our
ability to change human attitudes and behaviors by understanding people well
enough to “meet them where they are” with design interventions. Whether
direct or indirect, such design interventions are unapologetically aimed at
changing values, actions, or social norms in areas of concern to us as
citizen designers today. Designers bear responsibility for the effects of their work, from the
social, environmental, and economic effects of its life cycle to the changes
in the world it may produce. An open, inquisitive mind and the methodologies
of human-centered design research empower designers to step up to a critical,
ethical, and active engagement with the world. |
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Academic Track Mentoring:
Difficult and Sensitive Issues Panelists: Lisa
M Marvel ( How should an
advisor mentor a graduate student who is making little progress in their
research? What is the best mentor response to a mentee who is experiencing
sexism? The objective of the proposed panel is to improve mentoring,
especially with respect to guiding the mentor and mentee to discuss difficult
issues such as sexism or lack of progress. We plan to accomplish this goal by
role-playing both effective/ineffective mentoring. |
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Industry Track The Software Soul:
Maximizing Profitability by Unleashing the Spirit of Software Teams Panelists: Mala Devlin (Cisco Systems), Meenakshi Kaul-Basu (Sun Microsystems), Divya Kolar (Intel Corporation), Karin Catlin (Adobe Systems), Hong-Chung Tzou (Intuit) Software success is
directly tied to the effectiveness of software teams. |
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Technical Track The Automated
Braille Writing Tutor: Using Computing Technology to Enhance Braille
Education for the Visually-Impaired in Developing Communities Panelists: M.
Bernardine Dias (Robotics Institute, The Automated
Braille Writing Tutor project addresses the challenges of learning to write
braille among the visually-impaired populations; especially in developing
communities. Furthermore, it is an example of how computing technology can be
created for the social good of this population. There will be a demonstration
of the Braille Tutor's features and capabilities and a description of its
design and field testing in schools for the visually-impaired in several
countries. AND Kidney Heroes:
Improving Health Management through Video Games Presenters:
Diane P Pozefsky (UNC - Chapel Hill), Maria Ferris (UNC Kidney Heroes is a
web-based video game intended for pre-teen patients with chronic kidney
disease (CKD). The cost of non-adherence in patients with CKD is staggering,
both financially and in terms of human suffering. The purpose of this game is
to reinforce the medical knowledge and behaviors required for middle school
patients to understand and manage their disease to prepare them to take
responsibility for their own care as adults. |
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Theme Track ICT for Emerging
Economies - Why do we bother? Presenters:
Elmarie Venter (SAP Research CEC This talk will give
an overview of challenges and opportunities for Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT) in Emerging Economies (EE). It will address
the following questions: what are the specific needs and requirements of EE?
How should existing ICT solutions be modified to address them? How can ICT in
EE contribute to sustainable socio-economic development? It will describe 2
living lab research projects for Healthcare and Commerce in AND Saving Lives using
ICTs: Delivering Affordable, Quality Healthcare in Developing Countries Presenter: Zahara Khan (Sehat First) Developing countries
face critical human development challenges. Advancements in ICTs present a
unique opportunity to overcome these challenges. A social entrepreneur will
provide a "firsthand account" of how a group of organizations is
using ICTs (Mobile devices, RFID, VOIP Phones, OpenSource Software) to save
the lives of underserved people in |
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Student Track Computational
Geometry Collaborative Learning with Origami – Panelists: Taghrid Samak (DePaul University), Alex McFerron (DePaul University), Zahra Ferdowsi (DePaul University), PhikShan Foo (DePaul University), Krista Larson (DePaul University), Paula Laurent (DePaul University), Lopa Roychoudhuri (DePaul University), Kathryn Strezo (DePaul University), Maryam Ramezani (DePaul University) Research indicates
that developing math and computing problem solving skills can be challenging
for women and minorities in a classroom setting. Class size and the presence
of more advanced students may discourage students from actively
participating. We propose a |
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Steering Committee Track Recommendation Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award Winner
– sponsored by Microsoft This award will be presented to a junior
non-tenured faculty member (under the age of 40) at an academic or
research institution, who is pursuing high-quality research in any field of
engineering or physical sciences, while contributing significantly to promote
diversity in his/her environment. A $5000 prize is given at the Awards
Ceremony Thursday evening. The award winner will discuss her achievements
during this session. |
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Friday,
October 2nd
Session Seven
1:45pm
– 2:45pm
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Technical Speaker: Talk
Title: Bits
and Bites: Explaining Communications Security (and Insecurity) in Susan Landau, Distinguished Engineer, Sun
Microsystems Communications security is hard enough to
explain for computer scientists: Why is it easy to wiretap cell phone calls
and hard to wiretap VoIP? What is location difficult to determine in an IP
network —- after all, packets get to where they’re going, don’t they? If the
military can manage secure communications, why can’t the public? Providing
answers to these questions becomes significantly harder if the audience is non
technical — but no less important. In a world of both terrorism and natural
disasters, understanding the what begets communications security — and
communications insecurity — is critical for people making public policy
decisions. In this talk I will discuss the technical concerns behind
communications surveillance and communications security, as well as what its
is like to bring these issues to people in |
San Luis 1-2 |
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Academic Track Solving the Two
Body Problem Panelists:
Kristin Yvonne Rozier ( The two-body problem
of dual-technology-career households affects the majority of partnered women
in STEM fields, influencing many faucets of their careers from hiring
practices to promotion potential. Strategies for solving this problem are
presented by women of varying career stages, in academia, industry, and
government labs, from across the |
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Industry Track Is Your Future in
the Individual Contributor or Manager Track? Panelists: Lauren Haworth (Genentech), Carola Fellenz Thompson (SAP Labs LLC), JeanAnn Nichols (Intel), Alysia Andrikopoulos (Google), Aglaia Kong (Symantec) We're told that to
get ahead in our careers, we need to move into management. But we get
satisfaction from doing the technical work. Management is a good choice if it
takes you in the right direction, and provides work that stimulates you. If
you love what you do now, should you risk your happiness and move into
management just because you're told it's the only way to get ahead? |
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Technical Track On the Evolution of
Large Scale Distributed Systems Presenter:
Corina Stratan (Vrije Universiteit This presentation
introduces the main models of large scale distributed systems and discusses their
evolution. As researchers are envisioning a “world wide cloud” that would
connect computational resources in a global infrastructure, we aim to give
insight on the technical challenges in achieving this objective. We analyze
several types of distributed systems (grids, peer-to-peer systems, volunteer
computing systems and clouds) and discuss whether their models and
technologies can converge. AND High Throughput
Computing on the Open Science Grid (OSG) Infrastructure Presenter: Alina Bejan (Open Science Grid) This presentation
discusses concepts of high throughput and grid computing for science and
engineering that involve the use of nationally distributed computing
resources. The focus will be on enabling the use of the Open Science Grid
cyberinfrastructure, to perform large-scale computations and data-intensive
processing in various research fields. Participants will be provided with
technical information that will allow them to further explore grid
technologies for their own research. |
San Pedro 1-2 |
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Theme Track Multi-level
International Programs Working to Change Perceptions About IT Courses and
Careers Panelists: Catherine
Lang ( Three programs from
different countries aimed at encouraging students to consider IT careers will
be presented. Digital Divas, from AND Panel: Selected
Outreach Activities in Panelists:
Yvonne Coady (University of Victoria), Anne Many different
outreach activities exist encourage children to enter computer science. It is
often thought that such activities represent a good opportunity to catch
people, especially girls, before they opt out of the computer science
pipeline. In this panel we propose to talk about four such activities that
are aimed at children of various ages, and the overall vision of the funding
agency that allowed them to participate. |
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Student Track The Panelists: Andrea
Danyluk ( Undergraduate
research is fun and rewarding. Several programs provide opportunities for
undergraduate research, yet word of these doesn’t always reach students or
faculty. Even when it does, undergraduate research remains a mystery to many.
This panel will give undergraduate students the opportunity to hear about
research from their peers, will give faculty the chance to learn about the
mentoring experience, and will provide information on research programs and
funding sources. |
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Steering Committee
Track Anita Borg
Technical Leadership Award Winner The Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award recognizes
and celebrates an outstanding women technical leader. The recipient will be
honored and receive a $10,000 cash award at the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration
of Women in Computing Conference’s Awards Ceremony. In this session, the
award winner will speak about her work |
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Friday,
October 2nd
Session Eight
3:00pm
– 4:00pm
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Invited
Technical Speaker TechBridgeWorld
and Computing Technology for Developing Communities Bernardine Dias, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Most developing communities have not benefited
from technological advancements to date. In cases where technology has
benefited these communities, the benefits are often highly asymmetric. While
many organizations continue to focus on enabling sustainable development, few
organizations have studied the role of technology in this process.
TechBridgeWorld at Designing and implementing technology that can enhance suitable and
sustainable development presents unique challenges in creativity and
resourcefulness. TechBridgeWorld capitalizes on the collective experience and
talent of faculty, staff, and students at Carnegie Mellon University, and
joins forces with partners from around the world to extend the benefits of
computing technology to developing communities. Central to our vision is encouraging locally suitable and locally
sustainable technology solutions by adhering to each community’s vision of
progress, thus preserving their ownership of the benefits and consequences of
the realized development. As with any bridge, the technology “bridges” we
create will benefit participants on both sides of each bridge, enhancing
technology skills and increasing awareness about sustainable development and
global cultures. By increasing meaningful access to computing technology in
developing communities, TechBridgeWorld envisions enhancing not only the
development process, but also the creativity and diversity of technological
innovations accessible to all. In this talk I will share some of our experiences, stories, and lessons
learned in five years of TechBridgeWorld work in partnership with several
communities around the world. |
San Luis 1-2 |
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Academic Track Recruitment and
Retention at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions Panelists:
Jennifer Rosato ( Primarily
undergraduate institutions (PUIs) award nearly 60% of all the bachelor’s
degrees in computer science and therefore have a significant impact on the
pipeline of women in computing.
Despite lacking similar resources of larger institutions, they can
leverage their unique characteristics to create a comprehensive program aimed
at both recruiting and retaining women.
Panelists will discuss their experiences from 4 different PUIs and
share resources on starting efforts at other institutions. |
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Industry Track The Economy and the
Future of Computing Panelists: Joann Ordille (Avaya Labs Research), Linda Apsley (Microsoft Corporation), Jan Cuny (National Science Foundation), Catherine C. Lasser (IBM), Ramune Nagisetty (Intel) News reports keep
predicting "profound change" in society as a result of the current
economic upheaval. This panel brings together some of the foremost women
strategists and researchers in computer science and engineering to discuss
how these profound changes could impact computing. What strategic shifts do
we see in industry competition, products and research? How do we anticipate
the next 2 to 5 years playing out in the technology industry? |
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Technical Track A Walk in the
Clouds - Industry Leaders Talk About Cloud Computing and What It Means to
Them Panelists:
Shivani Sud (Intel), Victoria Coleman (Samsung Information Systems A group of talks
related to Cloud Computing ranging from an introduction of the term to
enterprise deployments. Explore the current state of industry along with
perspectives from leaders of various industry verticals and the actual
consumers of the technology, their experiences and expectations from the
technology. |
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Theme Track Networking Women in
Computing in a Global Context Moderator: Yuko Takahashi (Tsuda College, Japan) Panel: Technology has made
the global communication faster and easier, and made us realize the
challenges that technical women face are not exactly the same globally. We need to gain understanding of various
issues and concerns that women face when we start to work outside the culture
that we have grown up with. This panel includes
panelists who have been actively involved in networking women in computing
world in countries like -
Why are less
women studying computing and technology? Is it a global issue, or a cultural
issue? -
Are there any
unique opportunities for women in FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) ? -
Do the
governments need to get involved in encouraging women in technology? |
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Student Track Mastering the Art
of the Technical Interview: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Panelists: Gabriel (Gabby) Silberman (CA), Erin Chapple (Microsoft), Traci Wicks (Intuit), Ellen Spertus (Google), Lindsey Fowler (Amazon), Nancy Amato (Texas A&M University), Beverly Walker (Lockheed Martin), Lynn Pastorius (Vanguard) Understanding
interview skills and behaviors is important for securing an interview and
receiving a job offer. In this session, industry and academic representatives
involved in hiring for technical positions will enact and comment on
techniques for effective preparation, behaviors, and follow-up. |
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Steering Committee
Track Recommendation Anita Borg Social
Impact Award Winner – sponsored by Microsoft The fifth Anita Borg Social Impact Award,
an international prize, will honor an individual or team who has caused
technology to have a positive impact on the lives of women and society or who
has caused women to have a significant impact on the design and use of technology.
The recipient of the 2009 Anita Borg Social Impact Award will receive a
$10,000 award and will be honored at the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women
in Computing conference Awards Ceremony and will be discussing her work/her
teams work in this session. |
San Pedro 1-2 |
Friday, October 2nd
Session Nine
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Invited Technical Speaker Title of the talk: TBD Window Snyder,
Former Chief Security Officer, Mozilla Corporation Program Materials are currently missing |
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Academic Track Computational
Biology Trends and Careers Panelists: Manasi
Vartak (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Olena Marchenko ( Computational
Biology has recently become one of the fastest growing areas of computer
science. This panel will be an informative and discussion-oriented session
that will provide an introduction to the field of computational biology,
address its current trends and challenges, and discuss careers available to
computer scientists with and without a background in biology. The hour-long
panel will comprise of three short presentations followed by an open
discussion session. |
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Industry Track The Fight or Flight
Moment: Understanding Why We Leave or Stay in Industry Presenter: Sue Dorward (Sudo Coaching LLC) Technology companies
anticipate significant long-term, global growth and a shortage of skilled
employees, exacerbated by the staggering 52% attrition rate among SET women.
In 2008, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and others sponsored studies to better
understand how to retain women technologists. I will summarize, compare, and
interpret the results of Harvard's "Athena Factor," Catalyst's
"Women in Technology," and ABI/Stanford's "Climbing the
Technical Ladder" studies. |
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Technical Track OpenStreetMap: The
Wiki Map of the World – This session was cancelled 9/1/09 Presenters: Sarah Manley (CloudMade), Sarah Manley (CloudMade) Mapping and
geolocation is currently one of the hottest trends in technology, with
everything from phones to cameras incorporating GPS capability. OpenStreetMap
is a global, open source map that anyone anywhere can contribute, edit and
use. It could be considered a Wikipedia of maps. OpenStreeMap is licensed
through the Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution license, which allows
users to change, improve, add and use the map data in anyway they like. |
San Luis 1-2 (and the CyberCafe) |
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Theme Track Empowering
Immigrant Communities Through Technology Panelists: Gaby Aguilera (Google), Laura Valdéz (Caminos), Michelle Guevara (Caminos), Emily Johnston (Google) The digital divide
is commonly recognized in the developing world, but often ignored in our own
communities. Caminos, a non-profit organization, and THREAD, a volunteer
initiative at Google, train |
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Student Track Girls, Computer
Science, and Games Presenter: Gail
Carmichael ( Because of their
popularity with today's younger generation, video games are a great way to
capture the attention of middle and high school aged students. This
presentation will describe a week long mini-course that took advantage of
this fact to teach computer science skills to grade eight and nine girls,
who, at the end of the course, were able to create their own video games. AND From Computer Games
to a Career in IT Presenter: Anne Marie Agnelli (CA) Opportunities abound
for women in the IT industry which spans from video gaming to software and
hardware, as well as technical positions. Anne Marie Agnelli, vice president,
communications and community relations for CA, Inc. will address how being
exposed to technology through computer gaming can help girls and young women
see the opportunities and benefits a career in IT can offer. Agnelli will
also focus on how careers for females in the IT industry not only blend
within the technical side of the business but also spill into areas such as
marketing, communications, finance and legal. Session attendees will gain
insight on the dynamic career paths that young women can attain within the
world of IT. |
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Steering Committee
Track Recommendation Application of Quality Attributes for
Software-Intensive System Architecture Development Presenter: Elizabeth Penisten (Raytheon) The Software Engineering
Institute at Carnegie Mellon has established several architecture-centric
methods that are in wide acceptance among the architecture industry.
Raytheon has tailored and applied several architecture-centric methods
as part of the Raytheon Enterprise Architecture Process (REAP) for a variety
of initiatives that include: a reuse intensive architecture to support
demonstrations for an Air Force customer; a product line architecture for
vehicle tactical visualization display systems; and a large-scale software
project involving multiple customers, subcontractors, and partners. |
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Friday,
October 2nd
Session 10: Birds of a Feather Sessions
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Birds of a Feather
Session Tips, Tricks and
Software for Keeping Research Organized Panelists: Umaa
D Rebbapragada ( This BOF will
present advice, ideas and software for maintaining organization throughout
one's research career. We focus our discussion on four areas: the research
journal, literature searches, experimental work, and the paper-writing
process. The panel will demonstrate to newbie researchers the benefits of
staying organized from day one. We anticipate that veteran researchers will
benefit from a lively discussion of new and useful software tools for
keeping’s one research organized. |
San Luis 1-2 |
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Birds of a Feather
Session Service Learning
for Local and Global Social Change Panelists: Grace Wang (UCSD), Mandy Bratton (UCSD), Jeanne Ferrante (UCSD) Service learning is
one pedagogical method that bridges the gap between theory and practice and
that aims to cultivate a sense of civic engagement in students. Service
learning combines the skills that students learn in their coursework with
meaningful projects that benefit society. This program will invite
participants to engage in a discussion of the ways in which service learning
can be integrated into the curriculum on their own campuses. |
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Birds of a Feather
Session Speed Mentoring for
Latinas in Computing Panelists:
Dilma Da Silva (IBM Research), Nadia Anguiano-Wehde (IBM), Cecilia Aragon
(Lawrency Berkeley National Lab), Claris Castillo (IBM Research), Gilda
Garreton (Sun Microsystems), Patty Lopez (Intel), Mara Silva (Virginia Tech) Speed mentoring is a
networking exercise where people get advice in a series of short, one-on-one
conversations with other mentors. In this session we will apply the “speed
mentoring” technique to create opportunities for Latinas in Computing to
identify new possible mentors/protégés. Participants go through a series of
short interactions where they can get quick feedback on specific cultural
situations, challenges, barriers, and opportunities. |
San Pedro 1-2 |
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Birds of a Feather
Session Female IT and
Health Professionals - Linked for Social Good Presenter:
Nusrat Rahman (Association for Advancement of Information Technology) |
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Birds of a Feather Cross-Cultural
Communication Challenges Faced by Women in Computing Panelists: Cindy Rubio-González (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Dora Maria Abreu (Pershing LLC), Rosa Enciso (University of Central Florida), Anna Koufakou (Florida Gulf Coast University), Cindy Rubio-González (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jocelyn Simmonds (University of Toronto) We will identify,
discuss and enhance awareness about the cross-cultural communication
challenges that women in computing face. We will discuss communication skills
needed to succeed in our careers by overcoming communication barriers and how
to the serve the community being a medium of knowledge and experience. The
last part of the discussion will focus on important communication skills
every woman in computing must have: public speaking and work presentations. |
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Birds of a Feather
Session The Introverted
Volunteer: Yes, You Can! Presenters: Melissa J Garcia (IBM), Ashaki A Ricketts (IBM) Excited about
volunteering but not ecstatic about working with a group of strangers? Learn
innovative ways you can contribute to society while staying within your
comfort zone! This session will help you identify volunteer opportunities
that fit your personality and lifestyle. Discover ways you can use technology
to enhance the effectiveness of your service. Expect to leave with a renewed
sense of commitment to action and a practical guide to getting involved. |
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Birds of a Feather
Session NonTrads: Women
Following a non-Traditional Path in Pursuit of a Technical Degree and Career Panelists: Susan Frank (Farmingdale State College), Marie Rosenblatt (University at Albany), Heather McCalley (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Jessica Lowell (Northeastern University), Jennifer Walter (Vassar College), Anastasia (Staci) Burke (Pace University), Marie Lluberes (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez), Gerardine (Geri) Lamble (Santa Clara University) NonTrads, coined by
the founders of the nonTrads group, describes women overcoming obstacles
following a non-traditional path to their goals in the computer science profession.
These include raising a family, switching careers, and unexpected
catastrophic events. The nonTrads group provides a forum for moral support
and a means for sharing resources helpful to others facing such challenges.
Our goal for GHC2009 is to solidify the nonTrad community. |
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Friday,
October 2nd
Ignite Talks
2:00pm
– 4:00pm
Location:
Arizona
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A New Image of
Computing Presenter: Jill Ross (Image of Computing) This session will
help you become aware of efforts aimed at improving the public
image of computing. We will share the results of a nationwide
study recently conducted to study perceptions of college-bound high
school students. WGBH Educational Foundation and ACM (the Association
for Computing Machinery) with support of a grant from the National
Science Foundation (NSF) have a two-year project called New Image
for Computing (NIC). The project is aimed
at increasing the number of high school students across all
segments of society who recognize the excitement and potential
of computing and computer science to achieve fulfilling
career opportunities. A strong and diversified computing workforce
is essential in our country's ability to compete in the global economy.
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Artemis: Women
Teaching Women Computer Science Presenter:
Therese M Avitabile ( The Artemis Project
is a free summer program run by four female Brown undergraduates that
introduces 8th-grade girls to computer science. The girls learn to use
graphics tools, study basic computer science topics and learn a programming
language. This is a fun and relaxed way to introduce girls to computer
science at an age when many girls abandon the sciences altogether,
encouraging them to continue studies in computer science. |
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Changing the Future
– One Girl at a Time Presenter: Dawn Carter (Amazon) Are you wondering
how organizations and educators are changing the future for middle school
girls? This panel of recognized leaders will share best practices on ways
they are motivating middle school girls to study in the STEAM fields. These
leaders serve as advocates to promote STEAM disciplines and use programs as a
catalyst & model for educational excellence. Are you ready to see how you
can help change the future? |
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Coding for Charity:
How to run a Give Camp Presenter: Jennifer Marsman (Microsoft) A Give Camp is a
weekend-long event where software developers code for charity. This is a
truly amazing and inspirational event that is very much in line with this
year’s theme of “Creating Technology for Social Good”. The purpose of this
session is to describe the concept of a Give Camp, provide best practices for
organizing and running a successful Give Camp, and answer any questions. |
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Feminist
Perspectives on Teaching Introductory CS Presenter: Emma
L Anderson ( This presentation
shares an understanding of the gender issues in computer science from the
perspective of a programmer-turned-raving-feminist by challenging current
ideas on changing gender bias in the field, and engaging in debates between
the gender studies and computing communities about encouragement and
empowerment of female students, single-sex classrooms and teaching techniques
such as pair programming. |
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FemProf –Advancing
Undergraduate Female Students to a Professoriate Career: A Case Study Presenter:
Nayda Santiago ( FemProf, a
collaborative initiative between University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and
University of Houston Downtown, aims at establishing a model for
significantly increasing the number of undergraduate female students pursuing
a doctorate and professoriate career in computing. This panel presents the
FemProf model and shares significant experiences, lessons learned, obstacles
faced, and the main evaluation findings. |
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MathMovesU – A
Defense Company’s Efforts to Encourage Engineering Presenter: Kassie Bowman (Raytheon) This presentation
will give an overview of MathMovesU, a program developed by Raytheon to
encourage middle schoolers to pursue engineering. This program has touched over 700,000
students, teachers, and parents since it started in 2005. One of the exciting developments this year
is a new sponsorship at Epcot® at the Walt Disney World® Resort called the Sum of All
Thrills™, an
interactive experience to instill a passion for engineering principles. |
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Playing with Presenter:
Jessica Dickinson Goodman ( This talk is for
attendees who are interested in teaching young women to love computing using |
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Powering Online
Social Movements Presenter: Ruchi Sanghvi (Facebook) Facebook has taken online communication to a new level, enabling individuals to not only interact with their friends but fuel online grassroots movements, bring support to social causes, and encourage governments to be more transparent and open. This session will examine how a user’s social graph motivates and enables next-generation technologies like News Feed and Facebook Platform to increase the relevance of content and open up the conversation to developers around the world. |
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The Real Projects
for Real Clients (RPRCC) Initiative: An ACM-W Project Aimed at Recruiting
Young Women Into, And Retaining Them in, Computing Majors Presenter: David Klappholz (Stevens Institute of Technology) The Real Projects
for Real Clients Courses (RPRCC) initiative is a new (K-12 and college level)
ACM-W project aimed at recruiting young women into, and retaining them in,
computing-related majors. The initiative’s approach is based upon a
35-year-long psychological study that followed hundreds of mathematically-
and scientifically-talented youth from middle school to middle age and
elucidates gender differences in career choice. |
Wednesday, September
30th
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: Ania
Pavilion
Graduate Entries (In alphabetical order by title):
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Computer Aided
Insights Into the Biomechanics of Dinosaurs Presenter:
Zartasha Mustansar (The University of The quest to unravel
hidden secrets in the history of life has served as one of the basic impulses
for paleontologists to study the preserved remains of organisms that have
been extinct for millions of years. The author presents work that
demonstrates how novel insights into paleontology can be gained, using
computer simulation and biomechanics principles. The research is novel&
interdisciplinary, using a range of computing techniques including X-ray
micro-tomography; physics based modeling, supercomputers and virtual reality
visualization. |
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Dynamic NBTI
Management in Multicore Processor Presenter:
Taniya Siddiqua ( NBTI is an emerging
silicon reliability problem. In this work we explore a combined approach to
mitigate NBTI in the functional units (FUs) which exploit system-level,
microarchitecture-level and circuit-level optimizations. At
microarchitecture-level, we propose an NBTI-aware instruction scheduling
policy. Also, we design an NBTI-aware FU which uses a circuit-level technique
'Power Gating'. Combining both these techniques achieves an attractive
improvement in the lifetime reliability. Applying system-level optimization is
our future work. |
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Eat All You Can in
an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet: A Case for Aggressive Resource Usage Presenter: Ramya Raghavendra (UCSB) In contrast to a
focus on efficiency, we advocate aggressive usage of available resources.
This view is embodied in what we call the Buffet principle: continue using
more resources as long as the marginal cost can be driven lower than the
marginal benefit. We also discuss broadly the considerations in applying the
Buffet principle in practice. Finally, we outline the MAC protocol we are
building using the Buffet principle. |
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Handover
Optimization in Fourth-Generation Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Presenter:
Xiaohuan Yan ( In future wireless
systems, the integration of different wireless network technologies can
provide mobile users higher bandwidth and reduced cost. In order to enjoy
these benefits, effective vertical handovers algorithms become a critical issue.
In my project, a received signal strength measurement based method is
developed to increase the efficiency of handovers between wide and local area
networks. It is demonstrated that the proposed method significantly enhances
the performance of the handovers. |
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How Well Can
Anonymous Networks Protect Your Privacy? An Exploration on the Quality of Internet
Anonymity Services Presenter: Jing Jin ( Privacy and
anonymity are major concerns for Internet users. Anonymous networks provide
services to disguise the identity and correspondence between communicating
parties. However, the effectiveness of low latency anonymity services against
timing attacks is unexplored. We proposed an Energy-based metric to
quantitatively measure the effectiveness of anonymous networks in the
presence of timing attack. We found strong correlations between energy-based
metric and the timing attack results through our systematic measurement. |
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Observation-Based
Cooperation in Multi-Robot Systems Presenter: Briana Wellman (The In multirobot
systems, robots communicate explicitly or implicitly. Explicit
communications, or messages sent directly between robots, can be
computationally inefficient and result in performance degradation when
communications fail. In implicit communications, robots decide their actions
based on other robots' actions and what they observe in the environment. In
our approach, we investigate robots performing exploration tasks using
implicit communications in the form of observation of intent and state. |
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Partitioned
Scheduling with Fewer Processors Presenter: Charulakshmi Vijayagopal ( We consider the
partitioned Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling of real time periodic
tasks on identical multiprocessors in a multiprocessor. We characterize our
task sets by two parameters: maximum utilization, Umax and the maximum ratio
between consecutive task utilizations, gamma. For a given Umax and gamma we
have a developed a novel method for determining the maximum number of
required processors, M(Umax, gamma).It is guaranteed that any task set with
maximum utilization <= Umax and utilization ratio <= gamma can be
portioned on to M(Umax, gamma) processors. Compared to the current state, our
method requires as much as 35% fewer processors. |
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PhishZoo: An
Automated Web Phishing Detection Approach Based on Profiling and Fuzzy
Matching Presenter: Sadia Afroz ( Phishing is a
web-based attack that exploits users to acquire sensitive data. Most phishing
attacks work by creating a fake version of the real site's web interface to
gain the user's trust. This paper proposes a phishing detection
approach--PhishZoo---that uses profiles of trusted websites' appearances
built with fuzzy hashing to detect phishing. PhishZoo provides similar
accuracy to blacklisting approaches, with the advantage of classifying new
targeted attacks against smaller sites. |
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Semantic Clipboard:
Providing Policy Assurance When Reusing Content on the Web Presenter: Oshani W Seneviratne (MIT) An experiment on
Creative Commons attribution license violations on Flickr images revealed the
attribution license violation rate on the web to be around 70-90%. Therefore,
it can be argued that we need tools and techniques to enable the reuse of web
content in a policy aware manner. Semantic Clipboard is a realization of such
a tool. This tool can be used to transfer provenance and license metadata in
a completely transparent manner. When mashing up content from several
different sources a suitable license is calculated depending on the
constraints of the component licenses. |
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Software
Transactional Distributed Shared Memory Presenter: Alokika Dash ( We have developed a
transaction-based approach to distributed shared memory(DSM) that supports
object caching and generates path expression prefetches. To our knowledge,
this is the first prefetching approach that can prefetch objects whose
addresses have not been computed or predicted. Our DSM uses prefetching and
caching of remote objects to hide network latency while relying on the
transaction commit mechanism to preserve consistency. We have evaluated this
approach on a matrix multiply benchmark. We have found that our approach
enables to effectively utilize multiple machines in a cluster and also
benefit from prefetching and caching of objects. |
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Towards Synthetic
Firewall Policy Generation for Configuration Analysis and Testing Presenter: Taghrid Samak ( Researchers are
always in need to have a repository of ready made policies for conducting
research and development. Such policies are needed for performance testing as
well as configuration analysis. We address in this research the challenge of
generating representative policies to be used in configuration analysis of
firewalls. Two approaches are proposed to provide flexibility and coverage as
well as human-like features. |
Undergraduate Entries (In alphabetical order by
title):
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Conceptual Modeling
for Real-time Data Warehouses Presenter: Aakriti Agarwal (Nanyang Technological University) In spite of the
advent of real-time data warehouses (RTDW), not much work can be seen with
regards to modeling of these systems. In this context, we propose a
conceptual modeling approach “RealMDER” to address the peculiarities
associated with these systems. We define new graphical elements to cover the
real-time paradigm and highlight the advantage capturing such information has
on the downstream warehouse processes. |
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Presenting Clinical
Survival Probability Charts on Presenter: Nan Meng ( In order to make the
web based Lung Cancer Survivability Prediction Tool (LCSPT) accessible and
convenient to doctors working in clinical setting, we developed a new
interface for mobile devices. Two challenges are addressed: speed of the data
transfer and the display size of the LCSPT. Furthermore, the information
needs to be displayed in a useful and effective manner in small screen. |
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Recommendation-based
Query Relaxation via Space Partitioning and Mapping Functions Presenter: Manasi Vartak (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Although databases
expect precisely defined queries, users seldom have prior knowledge about the
data to formulate such queries. Therefore, queries may not satisfy
cardinality constraints and can output empty answer sets. Users then have to
employ a frustrating and computationally expensive trial-and-error process to
create appropriate queries. In this work we propose a novel technique based
on space partitioning and mapping functions to incrementally relax queries to
ensure output cardinality. |
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Towards Emotionally
Intelligent Machines: A Comprehensive Mood Classification System Presenter: Lucy H Vasserman ( Affective computing,
building machines with emotional intelligence, is an important field of
research within Artificial Intelligence today. An emotionally intelligent
computer must be able to both identify emotions in its user and express
emotions itself. Focusing on the former, this system takes a document as
input and identifies the mood conveyed in the text as happy, sad, or angry,
using Naïve Bayes classification. |
Wednesday, September
30th
7:00 –
Location: Ania
Pavilion
(In alphabetical
order – by title)
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3D Collaborative Environments for Social
Good Presenter: Gilda Garreton Advances on
technology for virtual spaces have been tremendous in recent years due to the
popularity of those environments, especially in the younger generations. Such
environments provide a strong sense of social presence, making them ideal for
education and community collaboration. This session will present a Sun Labs
open source project called Project Wonderland., a Java 3D toolkit for
creating collaborative virtual worlds where users can communicate and share
applications. |
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A Cryptographic
Solution for Patient Privacy in Electronic Health Records Presenter: Melissa Chase (Microsoft) Electronic health
records have the potential to vastly improve health care; however, they also
introduce new and severe security and privacy concerns. This poster will
summarize the issue of privacy in electronic health records systems, present
several recent developments in cryptography, and describe how they can be
used to provide patients with stronger privacy guarantees and more control
over their private health information. |
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A Framework for
Quantifying F-ACTIN Organization Patterns in Response to Candidate
Pharmaceutical in Astrocytoma Cells Presenter: Chi Cui ( The quantification
of F-actin organization patterns at the resolution of optical microscopy is
desirable for many biology research applications. In this work we developed a
framework and a number of image analysis techniques for quantifying the
F-actin pattern into a few descriptive numerical features per image, which
facilitates quantitative comparison across images and across experiments. We
integrate our image analysis algorithms into a prototype software built on
MatlabTM. |
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A Method for
Identifying Evolutionarily Conserved Temporary RNA Secondary Structure
Elements Presenter: Oana I Sandu ( The secondary
structure of RNA molecules is important in their function and can be
predicted computationally from the primary RNA sequence information. We
devise a method of predicting secondary structure helices involved in the
folding of RNA into its final structure. Our method starts with a set of
related RNA sequences and a known final structure and predicts potential
competing helices, accounting for conservation of the structures during
evolution. |
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A Path Based System
for Guidance in Pervasive Environment Presenter: Nova Ahmed (Georgia Institute of Technology) A guidance
capability in an indoor pervasive environment has many applications: guiding
a visually impaired person, search and rescue. We propose a low cost,
scalable solution that incorporates RFID tags and readers to sense the
environment. We use a system abstraction virtual station (VS), a distributed
component that creates a path among VSs for guidance information. We have
presented the system architecture and a proof of concept implementation of
our system. |
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A Social Networking
Environment to Support Collaborative Scientific Research Presenter: Aida Gandara (UTEP) As scientific
research becomes more collaborative, there is an emerging need to enhance the
design of software for multi-disciplinary scientific teams. Coordination
theory is an area of research that is being used to identify and model
collaborative techniques in a tool called WFTalk. The goal of WFTalk is to
provide models of collaborative techniques that can be embedded in software
(workflow) tools to facilitate discussing and meeting research goals. |
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A Survey on Common
C# Beginners' Errors Presenter: Nazneen Malik ( It is our hypothesis
that beginners in C# that have had prior programming experience make more C#
specific mistakes than others. By C# specific mistake, we mean implementation
of the language construct such that it would be correct in a more familiar
language but incorrect in C#. We conducted an experiment on a
university-level C# class with students who fit this category and our results
proved our hypothesis. |
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Accounting for
Input Uncertainty in Discrete-Event Simulation Using an Interval-Based
Approach Presenter: Ola Batarseh ( Usually the maximum
likelihood estimation is used to estimate input parameters of simulation
models. This traditional approach does not capture the uncertainties
associated with the input parameters. In this poster, we present a new
interval-based simulation mechanism to help improve simulation robustness
when uncertainties exist. The new mechanism incorporates variabilities and
uncertainties in systems based on imprecise probabilities. We compare our
simulation mechanism with the Second-Order |
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All Are Virtualized
and So is Our Technology - Business Needs of Virtualization Presenter: Radhika Parameshwaran (IBM INDIA Private Limited) Application of
virtualization technology in server consolidation and application
virtualization has direct and potential impact on the socio-economic
financial sectors. Indeed virtualization works well for most of the
organizations in reducing cost, managing resources and being eco-friendly.
This technical paper will have emphasis on Virtualization features of the
POWER series and AIX Operating system and how can we enable these features
for the cause of social economic growth while being eco-friendly. |
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An Examination of
the Usage, Perceptions, and Security Issues of Career Mommies Who Use Online
Communities of Practice to Aid in Their Own Social Good Presenter: Loreen Powell ( The word “help” is
music to most working mother’s ears. The concept of sharing ideas, knowledge,
and helpful hints regarding the challenges of raising a family is very
attractive. As such, many working mothers are joining “invitation only”
online Communities of Practice (CoPs) that are ready to “help” its members
engage in the process of collective learning. This presentation will help
career-oriented mothers utilize, create, and embrace technology for social
good. |
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An Introduction to
Parallel Computing for Multi-Physics Applications Presenter: Elizabeth M. Kallman (Ball Aerospace) Computer scientists
are in great demand to work with engineers to design high performance
computer codes for scientific applications of global importance. This is
interdisciplinary, involving researchers from diverse fields. For their ease
of implementation and scalability on parallel machines, iterative solvers for
the solution of linear equations which arise in these applications are
attractive. An overview is given of two packages which provide parallel
iterative solver technology: PETSc and Trilinos. |
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Application-Aware
Prioritization Mechanisms for On-Chip Networks Presenter: Reetuparna Das ( Network-on-Chips
(NoCs) are likely to become a critical shared resource in future many-core
processors. The challenge is to develop policies and mechanisms that enable
multiple applications to efficiently and fairly share the network. Existing
arbitration/prioritization policies in the routers fail to fully achieve this
goal, because they treat every packet equally, regardless of which
application issued the packet. We propose application-aware prioritization
policies based on the stall-time criticality of packets. |
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Broadening Student
Participation in Computer Science and other Computing programs in Arizona
Secondary Schools Presenter: Faye Tadayon-Navbabi (ASU Department of Computer Science and Engineering) Most students in |
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Bug Descriptions
Similarity Measure using Similarity Packages Presenter: Rajitha Rani Satharla (The When using Defect
tracking system such as Bugzilla for large software projects, it is quite
possible that same bug might be worded differently and has already had
solution. If a smart bug tracking system can be built, which can keep track
of those duplicate bugs and highlight them, it will help developers to reuse
their code and ultimately build more efficient software and also save time. |
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Building Free
Software Tools to Help People with Disabilities Today Presenter: Guy Barker (Microsoft) This poster
describes the work of a software developer to make available free assistive
technology software tools. One tool available at his Herbi.org web site helps
students develop their handwriting skills and is now used across the |
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Classroom Resources
and Impact on Learning Presenter: Margaret A Dickey-Kurdziolek (Virginia Tech) Technology has the
power to make life better and easier. Have we been able to prove the worth of
technology in education? Recent reports released by the United States
Department of Education imply that technology has no added value in
classrooms. This study and others call for more research on learning
resources, such as educational technologies. I am investigating what contexts
educational technologies can be used through in-depth case studies. |
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Coded Autorate
Multiaccess Protocol for Elastic Links (CAMEL) Presenter: Candy Yiu ( Software Defined
Access points (SoDA) enable flexibility in deployment of multiple protocols
over the same infrastructure. However, since most radio functions are pushed
to software results an increase of 10ms in latency, existing rate adaptation
algorithms and 802.11 ACK-based mechanisms will not work. We develop a new
MAC protocol and a rate adaptation algorithm that combines rate adaptation,
back off behavior, and coding in order to overcome the challenges posed. |
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Presenter: Annette Baumann ( In university
education there are two groups involved - students and scientific staff. So
far interaction takes place mainly within these groups. Students and
scientific staff are facing each other not only in their roles as teachers
and learners, but also as researchers and student assistants. Bringing together
both groups in teaching and research rises a valuable opportunity with
collaborative learning and knowledge exchange to enhance university
education. |
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Computer Science
Recruitment for the 21st Century (CSRecruit21) Presenter: Charissa A Mathis ( CSRecruit21 has a
goal to create recruitment software to reverse the trend of decreasing
interest in Computer Science(CS) among American students. The current
generation, especially females, tends to be attracted to fields with clear
social relevancy. Lacking understanding of the social applications of CS
creates negative associations during 3rd through 6th grade when students form
opinions about science. Our software showcases CS with interactive games
& puzzles, and alumni profiles. |
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Computers in Homes Creating Technology for Social Good Presenter: Dianne Eileen Das (Computers in Homes) In |
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Computing
Opportunities in Plant Sciences Presenter: Martha Narro ( The revolution in
molecular, biochemical and genomic technologies has resulted in vast amounts
of heterogeneous data in the plant sciences. Computational expertise is
essential to reveal patterns and generate new understanding from these data. This poster describes
collaborations with plant biologists to create cyberinfrastructure and
tools with the goals of advancing understanding of crop yield, ecology, basic
plant biology, and the people who generate and use plant science information.
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ConfAid: Using
Causality to Debug Configuration File Errors Presenter: Mona
Attariyan ( Many applications
provide a large number of configuration options to increase the flexibility
of their behavior. Although customization is desired but it comes with the
cost of misconfiguration problems. In this work, we propose a new diagnosis
tool called confAid that troubleshoots configuration errors that are due to
an incorrect configuration file. ConfAid is able to find all the
configuration options that affect the program at any point of the execution. |
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Creating Community-Based Environmental
Stewardship: The Urban Forest Mapping Project, An Open-Source Project for
Social and Environmental Good Presenter: Amber Bieg (Urban Forest Mapping Project) How do we engage community-based
environmental stewardship through open-source technology? The Urban Forest
Mapping Project (http://www.urbanforestmap.org) is a cross-agency,
collaborative, open-source project that aims to raise awareness, engage
communities, gather data and calculate environmental impacts of urban trees.
By engaging community through technology, the project raises awareness of the
critical role trees play in our urban ecosystem, encourages the involvement
of citizen foresters, and helps foster a living environmental legacy. |
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Creating Community
for the Technology Good Presenter: Erin Donahue ( Creating Community
for the Technology Good addresses the creation of a supportive community for
Computer Science majors by creating a Computer Science oriented living space.
This will focus on the creation, the best utilization, and the benefits of
the living space. This Birds Of a Feather session is targeted at non-commuter
students and faculty who want to support the student community. |
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Creating Technology for Social Good with
Open Source Presenter: Aakriti Agarwal (Nanyang Technological University) This informal session will be a great
arena for those interested in learning about open source and about its
umpteen opportunities or for those wanting to share their experiences of
working on open source projects. We intend to set up an online forum where
participants can post open source opportunities they come across. We hope
that this talk will turn into an interesting discussion and will benefit the
audience. |
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Credibility of Experimental Science Presenter:
Alicia Grubb ( This poster
discusses ongoing research to build theories about the community of
experimental scientists. This research is the result of a large set of
interviews with scientists from different domains. Empirical methods were
used to build theories about reproducibility, credibility, scooping, data
sharing, results sharing, and the effectiveness of the peer review process.
To better understand this topic, an abstraction was created to categorize and
classify the community. |
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Data Management
Systems for International Studies Presenter: Suchita Parepalli (RTI) The Global Data
Entry Development System (GDEDS) is a PC-based system developed by RTI
International for large multi-site international studies. GDEDS is a
table-driven, customizable system that supports 16 studies in multiple
languages. GDEDS consists of components which allow patient enrollment,
randomization, data entry, editing etc. Its flexible design facilitates
research on safe pregnancy and birth outcomes to help improve health and to
prevent death among women and children globally. |
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Designing for the
100+ Year Archive Presenter: Cathleen Wharton (Sun Microsystems) A long-term, digital
preservation archive is required to last for the existence of a corporation,
and in the case of a country’s national archives for the state of the union.
If you archive your personal photos, you expect them to last for the
existence of your family line. This presentation provides an overview of the
hard computational problems along with key design and technology
considerations for building digital archives. |
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Docking@Home:
Searching for New Drugs using Volunteer's Computers Presenter: Trilce Estrada ( The design of new pharmaceutical drugs relies on finding small molecules, called ligands, that dock into proteins and play an essential role in protein functions. Computational simulations are used to search the large space of potential ligands, reducing the time and cost required by several orders of magnitude. Docking@Home builds a distributed system based on idle cycles from volunteers' computers capable of providing the power required to perform this search. |
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Dynamic Model for
Real-Time Ambulance Relocations based on Coverage Variation Presenter: Saba Sajjadian ( Dynamic real-time
relocation of ambulances throughout the day is one of the most important
issues that emergency medical services have to consider. Ambulance relocation
decisions must be made online under time constraints to guarantee timely
response to future accidents as well as optimum regional coverage. We develop
a two-stage optimization model to satisfy the objectives. We evaluate the
performance of our optimization model and solution methods using real data. |
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Effective
Compositional Verification for Asynchronous Designs Presenter: Haiqiong Yao ( Current approaches
to compositional verification based on assume-guarantee reasoning need to
generate appropriate environment assumptions to verify desirable properties.
We propose an alternative method to refine components by examining their
interface interactions. Components are refined iteratively by removing
behaviors not synchronized with their respective neighbors. The experiments
on several large asynchronous circuits show that this method effectively
removes impossible behaviors from each component and demands on fewer
resources. |
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Efficient Methods
for Topic model Inference on Streaming Document Collections Presenter: Limin Topic models are
useful for analyzing large text collections by representing high dimensional
data in a low dimensional subspace, but are computationally expensive. We
improve performance and scalability by alternating between standard, offline
training and fast, lightweight topic inference for new documents, based on
trained models. We evaluate several inference methods, including a novel
approach inspired by text classification, in terms of speed and accuracy. |
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Empowering Individuals
to Change the World: Leveraging Technology to Make Employee Giving Easy Presenter: Lilia Paradis (Microsoft) Employee giving
programs yield billions of dollars to various causes annually. Anu tells why
philanthropy is good for employee morale and shares her experience as a
loaned executive with the local |
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Evaluating the use
of GPUs for Hyperspectral Images Presenter: Yajaira Gonzalez ( This project
evaluates the use of the CUDA computing platform of the NVIDIA GPUs for the
analysis of Hyperspectral images. These images which contain information from
across the spectrum are characterized for the large amount of data they
possess. Algorithms developed to analyze these images are known for being
highly computational and time consuming. The goal of this project is to use
the CUDA platform for the implementation of those algorithms in order to
reduce their computation time. |
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Exchanging and
Sharing Information among Law Enforcement Agencies in Presenter: Ewa Musial (University at The project focuses
on issues related to the communication and exchange of data among |
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Factors and
Obstacles Encountered by Women who Pursue a Degree in Engineering Presenter: Rose Mary Wentling ( This study examined
the factors that have hindered, motivated, and assisted women who graduated
with a degree in engineering. By studying and understanding the barriers that
hinder women in deciding to pursue and in completing a degree in engineering,
as well as, the factors that assist and encourage them, we can learn how to
break down the barriers and how to facilitate the educational journey of
female engineering students. |
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Faster I/O using
Hint-Based Optimizations in the MPI+PVFS2 I/O-Stack Presenter: Christina M Patrick ( In order to improve
performance of I/O-intensive applications, we focus on the MPI-IO and PVFS2
file-system I/O-stack. We intend to exploit application-specific knowledge at
lower layers in the I/O-stack. We introduce a novel architecture which
enables percolation of hints from one layer to another, partial action on a
hint and passing a hint “as is” to a lower layer. We demonstrate this using
adaptive prefetching in the file-system using application-specified hints. |
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Female Gender Participation
in ICT research Presenter: Oladunni Abosede Daramola ( Female gender
participation in active research in ICT in higher institutions of learning is
less than 50% in developed world, less than 30% in developing and even lesser
in the underdeveloped world. Several reasons and solutions have been proposed
with little or no progress, there is need for reexamination of this and call
for workable solutions that will bring about increase participation of the
female gender in ICT research. |
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Finding and
Maintaining a Job with the Presenter: Maria Vicente Bonto-Kane (NAVAIR) This poster will
give pointers for anyone seeking a job with the |
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Focus of Expansion
in Saliency-Based Visual Model Presenter: Elnaz Nouri ( Salient features in
a scene attract attention. Some low-level cues such as intensity, color,
orientation have been studied as task independent features and are known to
shift the visual attention and eye movements. We try to measure the impact of
the optical flow field and study the effect of Focus of Expansion in a
saliency-based model of attention. A new computational model accommodating
the Focus of Expansion is presented. |
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Formal Verification
on Leading Edge Microprocessor Design Presenter: Catherine Ahlschlager (Sun Microsystems) This presentation describes advanced formal verification techniques used in the second generation of processor design for pre-silicon functional verification and post silicon bring-up. Formal verification refers to use of mathematical techniques to ensure that designs conform to functional correctness of described specifications. We will highlighting values that formal method brings to our verification effort and lessons that we have learned through this experience to apply to future project. |
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FOSS In Business Presenter: Meenakshi Amirtharaj ( *Open source fosters
a community of developers and the cost involved is less. The end-users are
involved in the production. |
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GPA as a Method to
Measure Pauses for Language Competency Presenter: Putri Zulkifli ( GPA (Graphical
Protocol Analysis) acts as a tool in exploring ways to study pauses in
writing. Pauses captured provide a cognitive insight in the process of writing.
Thus, may be a method in measuring the degree of language competency.
Different modes of writing, such as writing letters into boxes, were used.
Language knowledge are categorised based on native language, second language,
familiar and unfamiliar character set. Differences in the competency levels
can be seen through the pauses obtained from different methods and languages.
Preliminary data will be presented that shows patterns of pauses occurring in
the language production process. |
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Hierarchical Clustering
using Affinity Propagation Presenter: Inmar Givoni ( We present a new
hierarchical clustering algorithm – an important variant of clustering that
is useful for analyzing biological data, decision making in operational
research domains, and many other tasks. We show that our method is able to
outperform greedy, initialization-sensitive methods due to its powerful
underlying formulation as probabilistic inference in a graphical model. |
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Increasing the
Success Rate for Women Studying Computer Science Presenter: Banucicek Gurcuoglu ( Gender inequality in
the successful study of computer science is a common problem. But this
problem becomes more crucial in countries like |
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Issues in Creating
an International Internet Classroom Presenter: Tasneem Kaochar ( What is needed to
provide free, high quality K12 education through the Internet? To answer this
question, we must first understand how, why and what types of online academic
resources K12 educators are using in the classroom. We will present results
from surveys of |
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iSTEM: Infusing
iPod Technology into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Presenter: Cathleen Richardson ( The |
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It's About the
Experience Presenter: Chiara F Fox (Adaptive Path) The most successful products and services will be those that know who they are and deliver on a cohesive experience strategy because they recognize that the experience is the product that we deliver and the only thing users care about. In this talk, I put forth the importance of taking an experienced-based approach to product strategy, with examples ranging from the original Kodak camera to the iPod. |
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Learning
Unconstrained Global Optimization Through SVM based Adaptive Multistart Presenter: Sameena Shah (IITD) For large-scale
global optimization, we propose GOSAM (Global optimization with Support
vector regression based Adaptive Multistart). GOSAM builds a training set of
the objective function’s local minima discovered till the current iteration,
and applies Support Vector Regression to construct a regressor that learns
the structure of the local minima.Simulations show that GOSAM requires
significantly fewer number of function evaluations to reach the global
optimum as compared to other evolutionary methods. |
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Making Robots
Socially Useful: A Network Approach Presenter: Ellen Brigham (Home Brew Robotics Club) In order for robots
to reach their full potential for socially useful work, designers need to
consider the uses of LAN and WAN for deployment. This paper represents work
in progress on a paradigm for using the network to accelerate the development
and deployment of commercially available, socially useful robots. Examples of
robots under construction for elder care and hostile work environment tasks
will be discussed. |
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Managing and
Querying Spatial Building Design Data: A Case Study in the Architecture,
Engineering and Construction Domain Presenter: April Webster ( The ARTIFACT project
is a collaborative endeavour between computer scientists and civil engineers.
Its goal is to support the extraction and integration of information needed
to make critical decisions for large construction projects. The research
presented herein focuses on spatial building design data: its extraction from
native applications, subsequent integration with previously extracted
non-spatial design data and, the development of custom AEC-specific spatial
query predicates to query the integrated data. |
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Managing and
Querying Unstructured Data in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction
Domain Using an Ontology: Case Study Presenter: Jamila S Salari ( Many projects create
repositories of unstructured PDF documents. This project attempts to improve
answering queries on such data. After a background literature review, we will
build a prototype to manage the data and to identify the types of queries
that can be answered with and without an ontology as guidance. Our goal is to
gain insight into the research problems associated with ontology-assisted
data exploration. |
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Methods for
Re-imagining Social Tools in New Contexts Presenter: Clare J. Hooper ( Digital exclusion
refers to a lack of access to technological facilities such as social
networking websites. People without PCs can benefit from these sites if we
enable access via a wider variety of communication channels. We describe
methods to better understand social technologies, towards re-providing these
technologies in new contexts. We hope to provide the basis for improving
access to such tools, enabling more people to benefit from these facilities. |
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Methodologies and Tools for Computation
Offloading on Heterogeneous Multicores Presenter: Ashwini Bhagwat (Georgia Institute of Technology) Frequency scaling has hit the power wall
and multicore computing is here to stay. Unlike homogeneous multicores that
have uniform architecture and ISA across cores, heterogenous multicores have
differentially capable cores that provide optimal performance for specialized
functionality. This heterogeneity translates into difficult programming
models, and extracting its potential is not trivial. This work addresses the
issues of porting existing sequential code to such multicores through program
analysis and profiling |
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New Model to Test the Effects of
Incubator Noise on Immature Mice Presenter:
Zohra Tridane ( The goal of the overall project is to improve quality of life by designing an active noise cancellation (ANC) system that can be installed in incubators so that premature infants can be protected from hearing loss. |
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Performance Analysis of a New Online
Delivery System at the Presenter:
Diala Gammoh ( The College of Engineering and Computer
Science at the |
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Performance Simulations for a Synthetic
Aperture Radiometer Measuring Peak Surface Wind Speed in Hurricanes Presenter:
Ruba Amarin ( The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD)
is a multi-frequency microwave radiometer at C-band that uses synthetic
aperture thinned array technology to create a wide swath version of the
proven Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer that will provide complete
images of ocean surface winds and rain in hurricanes. This poster presents a
brief description of the HIRAD array antenna and an analysis of some of the
methods used in computing reconstructed brightness temperature images. |
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Personal Health Log Presenter:
Silvia Figueira ( A problem senior citizens have is the
control of their medical treatments. It's hard for them to remember to tell
the doctor details from a doctor's appointment, and when to take their
medications. They have trouble reporting their condition and current
treatment to a new doctor. The solution this project proposes is a personal
health log that is accessible via smart phone, this provides patients with
control over their medical treatments. |
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Poetry and Prose Performances Project Presenter:
Jessica Dickinson Goodman ( The Poetry and Prose Performances Project
explores the uses of YouTube as a forum for educational resources for
students who find reading difficult. This semester I have recorded short
stories by O Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oscar Wilde, poetry by T.S.
Eliot and Robert Frost, and _Peter Pan_ by J.M. Barrie. I have been open
sourcing all documents, observations, and theories surrounding the project to
the project blog: pfour.wordpress.com. |
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Proprietary Software Versus Open Source
Software Presenter: Radhika Parameshwaran (IBM India Private Limited) The various pros and cons of open versus
proprietary software will be presented to the audience which will enable them
to make an effective and appropriate choice. This will include comparison on
the following aspects: Development and modifications Usage aspects
Distribution Technical support Skill sets of personnel involved Technology
and methodologies Costs involved Contributions Maintenance contracts Product
modifications and evolution Customer benefits Licensing issues Product
Documentation Product Stability, reliability, scalability and availability. |
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Real-Time Human-Guided Evolutionary
Optimization Presenter: Elena Erbiceanu (UCF) Many artistic tasks in domains like
content generation in the movie and entertainment industries rely on
extensive human processing. We introduce “real-time human-guided evolutionary
optimization” as a solution to lessen the artist’s effort. “Surface
Highlighting via Interactive NeuroEvolution” defines visual appearance of
objects in a scene with merely sparse artist guidance. Unlike traditional
approaches, evolution happens interactively in real-time, instantaneously
adapting to sparse incremental user-input and “suggesting” creative
solutions. |
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Recursive View Maintenance of Regions and
Connectivity in Networks Presenter:
Mengmeng Liu ( We have proposed novel techniques for
distributed recursive stream view maintenance. Our work is driven by emerging
applications in declarative networking and sensor monitoring, where
distributed recursive queries are increasingly important. We propose a scheme
called absorption provenance that encodes tuple derivability in a compact
fashion, provenance-aware operators that are bandwidth efficient and smart
techniques to avoid unnecessary network messages while maintaining correct
answers. |
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Reliable and Secure Message Transmission Presenter:
Arpita Patra (IIT Achieving reliable/secure message
transmission (RMT/SMT) in an unreliable network is a fundamental problem in
distributed computing. This work addresses several key questions in this
area: given a network, does any RMT/SMT protocol exist? Does an efficient
protocol possible? What are the inherent lower bounds on different parameters
of RMT/SMT? How to design optimal solutions? This work reports several lower
bounds, efficient/improved/optimal solutions, and first solutions to several
newly formulated problems. |
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Ride Lynx - Good For the Planet, Good For
the Wallet! Presenter:
Tammi Smith ( Ride Lynx offers a new twist to the old
concept of carpooling and ridesharing. It addresses some of those reasons why
more of us do not carpool. Ride Lynx is a mechanism that matches drivers and
riders within the same corporation through a secure, web-based software
program. It helps eliminate the fear of commuting with a total stranger, and
it helps society by promoting “Go Green”. |
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Routing Challenges in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks Presenter: Pramita Mitra ( The
highly dynamic and unpredictable topology of wireless ad-hoc networks
requires efficient routing protocols to allow mobile nodes communicate over
multi-hop radio links. However, the absence of fixed infrastructure poses
significant challenges on the design of routing protocols. This poster
focuses on finding solutions to two important routing challenges, i.e., (1)
route disruption due to node mobility and (2) route configurability for
multiple applications with differing Quality-of-Service (QoS) needs. |
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Saliency-Based Visual Model Presenter:
Elnaz Nouri ( In this session we will talk about the saliency-based
visual models. A visual attention system based on the neuronal architecture
of the early primate visual system has already been proposed(Laurent Itti,
Christof Koch) and we want to see how we can use Focus of Expansion to
enhance the visual saliency map computed. |
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Science and Technology in 21 Century:
Infuse Diversity, Globalization and Cross Presenter: Hang Chen (Johnson C. Smith University) The desire to use computing in another
field influences students' interest in CSE. Demonstrate them how the
technologies interact with other disciplines will instill an enthusiasm in
technology and enhance their learning experience. Diversity and globalization
define our era. Global transformations require youth to develop new skills
and habits of mind. Using technologies as tools to infuse diversity and
global perspectives into curriculum will prepare students to be globally
competent. |
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Semantic Similarity Measurement Presenter: Beibei (Betty) Yang (UMass Lowell) Semantic similarity refers to the likeness
between concepts that are not lexically similar. Semantic similarity provides
a common way to build ontologies, which in turn provides knowledge for the
semantic web. This work presents a survey of different algorithms to measure
the semantic similarity of texts. Such a survey would make it easier to
improve these algorithms and build applications based on the most promising
algorithm. |
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Social Impacts on the Enrollment of Women
in Engineering Related Studies in Presenter:
Diala Gammoh ( In this work, we will be discussing the
women engineers in |
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Stimulating Factors: Increasing Women's
Interest in Computer Science in Presenter:
Deniz Gursel ( In the computer science field there is a
men domination in |
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Structural Changes in C++ Software
Systems Presenter: Jessica H Lowell (Northeastern University) Complex network theory has been used to study
the structures of complicated systems, including software systems. One
question in object-oriented design is how software systems change as they
mature. The former of these can be used in the study of the latter, by
analyzing structural changes across versions using complex network theory.
This paper presents a network-theory-based analysis of the structural changes
across versions of object-oriented systems written in C++. |
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Techbridge Engages Girls in Technology
and Engineering: A High Touch, High Impact Model for Success Presenter: Linda Kekelis (Techbridge) Techbridge with its high touch, high
impact helps spark an interest in technology and engineering in girls. This
poster will describe the program elements that make for its success in
engaging girls in technology and engineering as well as highlight resources
to successfully introduce role models. Included are hands-on technology and
engineering projects that engage girls’ interests, career exploration
activities that expand career options, trainings and resources for teachers,
role models, and families. |
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The First Byte: A Real Taste of the
Internet at the Base of the Socio-economic Pyramid Presenter: Shikoh Gitau ( In this research, we
report on a 12 week study with 10 ladies from a previously disadvantaged community
in urban |
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The Mentoring Experience: How to Seek a Presenter:
Maria Vicente Bonto-Kane ( This poster presents pointers on how to
seek mentors, how to make the initial
contract that lays out expectations between mentor and mentee, how to make
the most of the mentoring experience, and, finally, how to evaluate and wrap
up the mentoring experience. It will
be most useful for students and also for professionals seeking or giving the mentoring
experience. |
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Tools for Presenter: Laura L Raderman (Gemini Security Solutions) Online communities do not have the same face to face interaction that most humans base trust on, so we must depend on other means to build trust in these communities. I will present public key technology and two specifications that can be used to build this trust without everyone having to meet in person. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) provide differing philosophies on building this trust. |
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Topology Control in Simple Presenter:
Fei (Sophie) Che ( Topology control is the problem of
assigning powers to the nodes of an ad-hoc network so as to create a
specified network topology while minimizing the energy consumed by the network
nodes. Here, we study the topology control problem under the Simple |
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Toward an Optical
Biosensor for Integrated Biofilm Detection Presenter: Mariana T. Meyer ( Many types of
bacteria communicate with each other via intercellular molecular signaling,
and thereby regulate their behavior according to population. At a threshold
population, bacteria aggregate and form a pathogenic matrix, or biofilm. We
have developed a platform for optical monitoring of Escherichia coli biofilm
growth and response in microfluidics. Optical absorbance of the biofilm was
measured using an external photodiode and correlated to measured thickness to
quantify growth. Detailed device fabrication parameters and experimental
results will be presented. Our goal is to develop this platform into an
integrated, compact device with parallel throughput for applications in
developing antibiotics. |
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Trust, Learning, and Usability Presenter: Laurian C. Vega (Virginia Tech) Designing software and online tools so
that students find them not only usable, but also credible is a growing
issue. In this poster we introduce a study that evaluated usability's effects
on trust and learning online. We investigated what design element was being
trusted and what aspects of usability influenced trust. Using a novel method
of evaluation, we present preliminary findings that lead to a model and implications
for design. |
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United to Enhance Women’s Opportunities:
Increasing Numbers Technology-Wise Presenter: Alicia Chong (ITESM) MenTe (First ACM-W Student Chapter in
Latin America and Women in Technology group) from Tecnologico de Monterrey in
Mexico started with three main purposes: to develop friendship within the
girls majoring in these fields, to promote technology related majors so the
number of girls involved in these fields increases and to take opportunities
around the world directed towards women, to meet new people and develop new
chances. After learning from others around the globe and through networking
we are seeking for an increase in female enrollment and preventing female
desertion from technology careers. Providing a positive impact in society. |
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Use of Local Grammars to the IE-purposes
(on the example of Ebay) Presenter:
Olga Morozova (LMU The research is focused on the information
extraction from the semi-structured web data and based on the creation of the
local grammars with the help of UNITEX. As a result the local grammar graphs
are constructed, that allow to extract all the needed information from the
investigated domain (German ebay articles concerning jewelry). That
simplifies the search and the comparison of products in the immense growing
flow of information. |
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Using Clustering
Techniques for Creating Accountable Health Care Groups Presenter: Ridhima Rajkumar ( We identify groups
of primary care physicians which could be held accountable for patients in given
geographical location. The need arises based on studies which has proven that
people who identify PCP as usual source of care are healthier .The approach
is as follows. First I use clustering techniques to find groups of physicians
that stay optimally close to each other and in the second step I allocate
patients to these groups using social networking analysis tools. Hence, my
contribution are the algorithms that would give optimal groups of physicians
and patients such that every patient gets coordinated health care. |
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Using Describers to
Simplify ScriptEase Presenter: Neesha Desai ( ScriptEase is a tool
that allows non-programmers to design their own video games. A key goal of
ScriptEase is to be as simple and intuitive as possible. For my Master's
research I developed a method of referring to game objects using
"Describers". Describers replace the more traditional programming
approach of defining variables. This poster presents the results of a user
study that compared the describers against defining variables. |
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Using Random Code
Generators to Cover Core Microprocessor Test Areas Presenter: Sarah A Kay (Intel) Random Code
Generators (RCGs) have unique capabilities for covering the presilicon
validation environment test space. This paper will present a brief
introduction to the RCGs in use at the Ft Collins Design Center and how they
are used to cover the test space within the core of the sixth generation
Itanium Processor Family (IPF) microprocessor. Results are presented based on
data available to date. |
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Utilizing
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in CS1 Presenter: Cynthia Lester ( CS1 has been
perceived as a difficult course for students to pass; and, a review of
passing rates in a course taught from 2006 to 2008 supported this perception.
Informal student surveys revealed that students wanted a more interactive
learning environment where they could get help on complex course topics. The
work in progress describes how institutions without graduate programs can use
undergraduate teaching assistants to create valuable learning experiences. |
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Videoblogging:
Video Communication for Everyone Presenter: Deirdre Straughan (Sun Microsystems) Video is a popular
and effective way to share information, of any kind. But, until recently, it
was too expensive for routine communication needs. Now, using consumer
equipment and online, anyone can get their video message out to their
colleagues, community, and the world. Expect to take home ideas and solid
knowledge about how video can work for you, without a huge investment in
time, equipment, or skills. |
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What Does it Mean to
be Green? Understanding the Numbers Behind a Greener Lifestyle. Presenter: Melissa J Garcia (IBM) Greening your home
and workplace means more than just florescent light bulbs. Get the most out
of your time and effort by understanding the greenest solutions for your
lifestyle! This session will focus on how much energy/waste green solutions
actually save and what some corporations are doing to help. Whether you have
solutions to share with your peers or are wondering how you can do your part,
join our idea-driven discussion about going green. |
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Wikitology: A
Wikipedia Derived Novel Hybrid Knowledge Base Presenter: Zareen S Syed (University of We are developing
“Wikitology” a Wikipedia derived novel hybrid knowledge-base using Wikipedia
and other related knowledge resources to expose the knowledge hidden in
different forms such as rdf triples, links, graphs, tables and free text to
applications thereby enabling effective access and utilization of world
knowledge. We have successfully developed and evaluated Wikitology 1.0 for
concept prediction, Wikitology 2.0 for co-reference resolution and are
targeting Wikitology 3.0 towards knowledge-base population. |
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Young Women in
Computing: Promoting Diversity and Success in Computer Science Presenter: Nicole Ray ( The Young Women in
Computing program is funded by the Broadening Participation in Computing NSF
grant. Their goal is to draw underrepresented groups into the field of
computer science to promote diversity and innovation. Young Women in
Computing began this process with female high school students in summer camps
three years ago, and now the program is widening their influence by teaching
robotics and animation to local middle school students. |