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Tapia Celebration 2009 - Schedule, as of March 24, 2009
       . . . proceedings for the conference have been published by ACM, read them here.
Legendright arrow Doctoral Consortium Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Break Plenary Speaker Papers Panel Workshop BOF's Posters Other
 
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
 
Thursday, April 2, 2009
 
Friday, April 3, 2009
 
Saturday, April 4, 2009
 
Note: All Doctoral Consortium sessions take place in the Eugene Room on the Ballroom Level.            
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Continental Breakfast (7:30 - 8:15 AM) Ballroom Level Foyer.
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Breakfast (7:30 - 8:15 AM) Ballroom Level Foyer.
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Breakfast (7:30 - 8:30 AM) Ballroom Level Foyer.

 

Opening Remarks and Announcements will be made separately in each of the morning Breakout Sessions below.

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Breakfast (7:45 - 8:00 AM) in the Portland Room, Ballrrom Level.
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(Doctoral Consortium)  Welcome and Introductions: Prof. Charles Isbell. (8:00 - 8:15 AM)
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Invited Talk "Pathways to Success: "Navigating the Ph.D, Overcoming Obstacles, and Identifying Resources" Dr. Mary Ann Leung, Krell Institute (8:15 - 9:00 AM)
8:15 AM
Opening Remarks and Announcements (8:15 - 8:30 AM) Salons E & F.
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Opening Remarks and Announcements.  Plenary introduction by Telle Whitney. (8:15 - 8:30 AM) Salons E & F.
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Plenary I - The Patchwork Promise: Providing a Better Future, Ann Quiroz Gates, Associate Vice President for Research, University of Texas at El Paso (8:30 - 9:30 AM) Salons E & F.
           Download the presentation - PDF, 1.24MB.

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Plenary IV - Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing, Jane Margolis, Senior Researcher, Institute for Democracy, Education and Access at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and author of the recently published book, "Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing" (MIT Press, 2008), which won the 2009 Prose Award from the Association of American Publishers in the Education category. (8:30 to 9:30 AM) Salons E & F
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint, ppt, 6.53MB.
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Workshop III - "Introduction to Petascale Computing" (James Ferguson, Donald Frederick, and Bruce Loftis)

(8:30 - 10:45 AM) Salons A & B.

           Download the presentation - Powerpoint pptx, 3.76MB

Papers Session V


"Engaging Students in Software Development Course Projects" (Jacqueline Hundley and Winard Britt).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint ppt, 549KB.


"Alice and Robotics In Introductory CS Courses" (Briana Wellman, James Davis and Monica Anderson).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint pptx, 447KB.


"Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Autonomic Computing Research at FIU" (Masoud Milani, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Raju Rangaswami, Peter J. Clarke and Tao Li).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint pptx, 13.27MB


"PIRE: A Global Living Laboratory for Cyberinfrastructure Application Enablement" (Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Shu-Ching Chen, Borko Furht, Pete Martinez, Scott Graham, Steve Luis, Juan Carraballo, and Yi Deng).
           Download the presentation - PDF, 39.49MB

(8:30 - 10:45 AM) Salons C & D.

Panel Session VII - "Gaining Insight Into The Publication Disparity" (Quincy Brown, Brian Blake, Cheryl Swanier, Ernest Cross, Rashida Davis, and Caio Soares).

(8:30 - 10:45 AM) Salons G & H.

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"Assessing the Impact of Cache Injection on High-Performance Computing Applications" Edgar Leon, University of New Mexico (9:00 - 10:00 AM)
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Break (9:30 - 10:00 AM) Ballroom Level Foyer.
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Break (10:00 - 10:15 AM), Portland Room.
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Workshop I - Resume Workshop Sponsored by Google (10:00 AM - Noon) Salons A & B. Papers Session I

"A Knowledge-Based Database System for Visual Rating of fMRI Activation Pattern for Brain Language Network" (Magno Guillen, Malek Adjouadi, Byron Bernal, Melvin Ayala, Armando Barreto, Naphtali Rishe, Gabriel Lizarraga, Xiaozhen You, and William Gaillard).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint ppt, 6.08MB.

"Computational Modeling Approaches Help Guide Early Design Efforts for Usability" (Maria Vicente Atas, Bonto-Kane, and Robert St. Amant).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint ppt, 1.98MB.

"Maximizing Network Security Given a Limited Budget" (Nwokedi Idika, Brandeis Marshall, and Bharat Bhargava).

"Performing Traffic Analysis on a Wireless Identified-Free Link Layer" (Damon McCoy, Kevin Bauer, Ben Greenstein, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint pptx, 3.89MB.

(10:00 AM - Noon) Salons C & D.

Panel Session I - "The Role of Department Chairs in Broadening Hispanic Participation in Computing" (John Fernandez, Ann Gates, Desh Ranjan, and Manuel Perez-Quinones).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint ppt, 896KB.

(10:00 AM - Noon)
Salons G & H.
10:00 AM
ACM Poster Competition Presentations (10:00 AM - Noon) Salon A.

Papers Session III


"Broadening Participation: a Community College Strategy" (W. Richards Adrion and Renee Fall).
           Download the presentation - PDF, 9.16MB.


"INSPIRED Computing Academies for Middle School Students: Lessons Learned" (Peggy Doerschuk, Jiangjiang Liu, and Judith Mann).


"Building Information Assurance Education Partnerships with Minority Institutions" (Drew Hamilton, Steven Owor, and Khalil Dajani).

"Later Stages Support for Security Requirements" (Jose Romero-Mariona, Hadar Ziv, and Debra Richardson).

(10:00 AM - Noon) Salons B & C.

Panel Session III - "What you need to know: Insights into the industry technical career track" (Caroline Simard, Andrea Davies Henderson, and Freada Kapor Klein).

(10:00 AM - Noon) Salons G & H.

BOF IV - Reshaping the image of computing among college-bound teens - Moderator: Ben Wiehle, New Image for Computing

(10:00 - 11:00 a.m.) Salon D.
           Download the presentation - PDF, 115KB.
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"A Multi-Tasking, Tablet PC-based Approach to Teaching Introductory Statistics" Alexandre Probst, Colorado School of Mines (10:15 - 11:15 AM)
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Town Hall Meeting - Input from all attendees (10:45 - 11:45 AM) Salons E & F.
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BOF V - Cultural Diversity in IT

"National Center on Cultural Diversity in Computer and Information Technology" - Moderator:  Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University

(11:00 AM - Noon) Salon D.

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"Uncertainty Quantification and Uncertainty Reduction Techniques for Large Scale Simulation Models" Haiyan Cheng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (11:15 AM - 12:15 PM)
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Adjourn Tapia 2009 (11:45 AM)
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Lunch - Salons E & F (Noon - 1:30 PM) Robotics Participants will have a Brown Bag Lunch during their discussion, in Salons A & B (Noon to 12:40 PM).
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Lunch (Noon - 1:30 PM) Salons E & F.
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Lunch (12:15 - 1:30 PM) in the Portland Room.
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Special Presentation - “Teleimmersion as a Means for Better Communication Between People” by Ruzena Bajcsy, University of California, Berkeley.  Everyone is welcome to attend. Salons A & B.  (12:45 - 1:30 PM)
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint, ppt, 19.48MB.
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"Quantifying and Improving Wireless Privacy" Damon McCoy, University of Colorado, Boulder (1:30 - 2:30 PM)
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Plenary II - Adaptive Drama Management: Bringing Machine Learning to Interactive Entertainment, Charles Isbell, Associate Dean, College of Computing, and Associate Professor, Laboratory for Interactive Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Systems Group, School of Interactive Computing College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (1:30 - 2:30 PM) Salons E & F.
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Plenary IV - Ken Kennedy Distinguished Lecture, 2009 Tapia Celebration (a tribute to Rice University Professor Ken Kennedy, who was one of the world's foremost experts on high-performance computing).
            Web Information Management: From Search to Social Networks, Hector Garcia- Molina, Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. (1:30 - 2:30 PM) Salons E & F.
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Break (2:30 - 2:45 PM) Portland Room.
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Break (2:30 - 3:00 PM) Ballroom Level Foyer.
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"Analysis of Motion Landscapes" Lydia Tapia, Texas A&M University, (2:45 - 3:45 PM)
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Workshop II - "How to start a STARS Leadership Corps to improve retention and recruiting in computing." (Tiffany Barnes, Teresa Dahlberg, Marguerite Doman and Karen Bean).

(3:00 - 5:00 PM) Salons A & B.

Papers Session II


"A Platform-Based Design Environment for Synthetic Biological Systems" (Douglas Densmore, Matthew Johnson, Nade Sritanyaratana, and Anne Van Devender).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint ppt, 10.00MB.


"DANCING: Dance And Choreography; an Intelligent Nondeterministic Generator" (Mario Nakazawa and Andrea Paezold-Ruehl).


"An Initial Approach to Mining Multiple Perspectives of a Business Process" (Aubrey Rembert and Clarence Ellis).


"Predicting Cross-Country Results using Feature Selection and Evolutionary Computation" (Caio Soares and Juan Gilbert).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint ppt, 1.44MB.

(3:00 - 5:00 PM) Salons C & D.

Panel Session II - "Industry as Change Agent: Intel's Experiments to Retain Students in STEM and Expand the Ph.D. Market" (Karen Kim, Kimberly Sills, Sheila Humphreys, and Stephanie Wallach).
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint ppt, 106KB.

(3:00 - 5:00 PM)
Salons G & H.
3:00 PM
Robotics Competition (3:00 - 4:50 PM) Columbia and Willamette Rooms.

Papers Session IV


"Characterizing the Association between Mobile Users Using Wireless Network Traces" (Pierrot Chery, Jiang (Leo) Li, and Legand Burge).
"Programming Efficiency in Parallel Computing" Keisha Cumber, Stephanie Diehl, Chuck Koelbel, and Vivek Sarkar).
"Exploring Multi-Core Limitations through Comparison of Contemporary Systems" (Ashley Deflumere and Sadaf R. Alam)
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint ppt, 1.24MB.

"On the Efficacy of Present grid computing software for deploying a medical grid" (Javier Delgado and Malek Adjouadi).
           Download the presentation - PDF, 717KB.

(3:00 - 4:50 PM) Salon D.

Panel Session IV - "Diversity Challenges and Opportunities in K-12" (Joanna Goode, Chris Stephenson, Jane Margolis, and John Landa).

(3:00 - 4:50 PM) Salons G & H.
           Download the presentation - PDF, 3.22MB.

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"KilltheWinner in Four Aquatic Environments" Beltran Rodriguez-Mueller, San Diego State University (3:45 - 4:45 PM)
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Wrap up: questions from other students to the panelists. (4:45 - 5:30 PM)
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BOF VI - "Student Recommendations for Increasing Participation in Science and Engineering" (Quincy Brown, Christopher Harris, Jessica Rivas, Jose Romero-Mariona, and Juan F. Sequeda).

(5:00 - 6:00 PM) Salon A.

BOF VII - "Changing the World: Using Technology to Address Social Issues" (Andrea Grimes and Sheena Lewis).

(5:00 - 6:00 PM) Salon D.
           Download the presentation - PDF, 4.73MB.

Panel Session V - "Steps to a PhD: A Student's Perspective" (Charles Lively, Lydia Tapia, Suzanne Matthews, and Tiffani Williams)

(5:00 - 6:30 PM) Salons G & H.

Panel Session VI - "Giving Dilbert a makeover: Broadening participation in computer science through collaborations in ecology and natural resources" (Julia Jones, Thomas Dietterich, Xiaoli Fern, Weng-Keen Wong, Ethan Dereszynski, Twinkle Lettkeman, Jonathan Palacios, Matthew Clothier, Liz Burrows, and Nicole Czarnomski)

(5:00 - 6:30 PM) Salons B & C.

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BOF I - "Developing, Recruiting, and Retaining Underrepresented Groups in the National Laboratory System" (Rebecca Hartman-Baker and Arnold Tharrington".
           Download the presentation - Powerpoint pptx, 1.56MB.

(5:15 - 6:15 PM) Salons A & B.

BOF II - "Can Virtual Worlds bring a 'Second Life' to CS Education"? (Jeanette Allen, Anja Remshagen, Li Yang, Brittany Burgey, Randle Copeland, Brittany Johnson, and Shimiel Small).

(5:15 - 6:15 PM) Salons C & D.

BOF III - "Access Computing and Accessibility Research" (Richard Ladner).
           Download the presentation - PDF, 1.64MB.

(5:15 - 6:15 PM) Salons G & H.

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Scholarship Orientation (6:00 - 6:30 PM) Salons A, B & C, Ballroom Level.
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Break and VIP Reception (6:00 - 6:45 PM)
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Student Welcome and Networking Session (6:30 - 8:00 PM) Salons A, B & C.
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ACM Poster Competition and Reception (6:30 - 9:00 PM) Mt. Hood Room - 2nd Floor (Restaurant Level). Supported by IBM
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Banquet and Awards

Banquet Speaker - Imagine Your Future: Invent Your Career, Mario Pipkin, General Manager, Enterprise Experience Division, Microsoft Corporation. Banquet Speaker Supported by Microsoft

(6:30 - 9:00 PM) Salons E & F.

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Opening Reception (8:00 - 10:00 PM) Salon E.

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edited by mks, 7-16-2009, 11:00 AM, CST