MinneWIC 2010 - Program (almost final)

Friday, February 12

4:00-6:00pm Welcome reception, registration, poster and BOF session, EE/CS Atrium and Room 3-180

4:00-6:00pm, Poster session, EE/CS Atrium

  1. POSTER: A Framework for Developing Multitouch Applications to Enhance K-12 Education,
    Jaelle Scheuerman, Robyn Krage, Lori Rebenitsch, Antonette Logar
  2. POSTER: Bird Species Recognition through Spectrogram Processing and Labeling,
    Katie Wolf
  3. POSTER: "Virus Tracker: An interactive tool for Visualizing the Spread of Flu Virus",
    Urvashi Mishra, Daniel Boley
  4. POSTER: A Design of the Test Engine,
    Mao Zheng, Wanyi Zhao, Xiaoyao Qin, Zhenyu Xu
  5. POSTER: Sustainable Multi-Robot Patrol of an Open Polyline,
    Elizabeth Jensen, Michael Franklin, Sara Lahr, Maria Gini
  6. POSTER: Segmentation-Based Image Compression,
    Emily Jones
  7. POSTER: An Autonomous Robot with Face Detection and Identification Capabilities,
    Janet Burt, Mary Scaramuzza, Allison Schedin
  8. POSTER: Wikipedians? Cyclopaths? A Quantitative Analysis of Power Users in Online Communities,
    Katherine Panciera, Reid Priedhorsky, Aaron Halfaker, Thomas Erickson, Loren Terveen
  9. POSTER: Impact of Improved Evacuation Plans on Insurance,
    Urvashi Mishra, Andrew Miller, Shashi Shekhar
  10. POSTER: Difference in use of web 2.0 tools among undergraduates in a variety of educational fields,
    Shinjini Kar, Arshia Khan
  11. POSTER: HiPerCiC: High Performance Computing in the Classroom,
    Stephanie Tanner, Dick Brown
  12. POSTER: Peer Review System,
    Hannah Miller, Daphne Brinkerhoff
  13. POSTER: Studying Adolescent Brain Development Using Neuroimaging, Cognitive and Genetic Data,
    Tushar Garg, Vanja Paunic, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Kelvin O. Lim, Monica Luciana, Richard Mushiln, Tim Mullins
  14. POSTER: Web design for non-profit organizations,
    Joanna Gandecka, Shinjini Kar
  15. POSTER: Gender Differences in Internet Usage,
    Ritika Jhangiani, Arshia Khan
  16. POSTER:A Measure of Semantic Relatedness Using the Concept of Allowable Paths in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS),
    Mugdha Choudhary, Ted Pedersen
  17. POSTER: Random Walks in WordNet to Measure Lexical Semantic Relatedness,
    Yanbo Xu, Kang James, Ted Pedersen
  18. POSTER: An Android Application for Blood Pressure Reading,
    Prapti Shrestha
  19. POSTER: Design and Development of Fully Integrated Two-Way Media System for Distance Learning for Synchronous and Asynchronous Avatar-Based 3D Learning Environments,
    Allyn Chen, Warren Shafer, Brock Dubbels
  20. POSTER: Analytics based design decisions for small-scale consumer world wide web marketing,
    Elizabeth Fernandes, Darren Pearson, Brock Dubbels

5:00-6:00, BOF, EE/CS Room 3-180

  1. BOF: Outreach with the Girl Scouts,
    Jennifer Rosato, Ritika Jhangiani, Kate Abraham

6:00-7:30pm Dinner and Opening Remarks, Radisson University Hotel, Humphrey Ballroom

7:30-8:30pm Keynote speaker, Radisson Hotel, Humphrey Ballroom

Jessica Hodgins, Carnegie Mellon University,
"Robotics -> Animation -> Robotics"

Chaired by Victoria Interrante, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

8:30-8:45pm Break

8:45-9:45pm Invited talk, EE/CS Room 3-180

Jerri Barrett, VP of Marketing, Anita Borg Institute
"The Impostor syndrome"

Chaired by Joan Francioni, Professor, Computer Science, Winona State University

9:45-11:00pm Social activity: surprise programming contest, EE/CS Rooms 2-170 and 2-172

Saturday, February 13

8:00-8:45am Breakfast, EE/CS Atrium

8:45-9:45 Keynote speaker, EE/CS Room 3-180

Gilda Garreton, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems
"How Open Source and Collaboration aid Innovation in VLSI"

Chaired by Antonia Zhai, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

9:45-10:00am Break

10:00-11:00am Career/Graduate School Panel, EE/CS Room 3-180

Jessica Hodgins (CMU), Gilda Garreton (Sun Microsystems), Lara Rubbelke (Microsoft), Denise Morrow (Target), Katie Panciera (grad student)
Moderated by Amy Csizmar Dalal, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Carleton College

11:00-11:15am Break

11:15-12:15 Concurrent sessions

  1. Faculty workshop on Recruiment and Retention,
    Lecia Barker, Research Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
    Chaired by Sue Talley, Associate Dean, School of Undergraduate Studies, Capella University
  2. BOF: Lets kindle the spark,
    Urvashi Mishra
  3. Life in the Computer Security Field,
    Darlene Tester, Data Privacy Manager, Fingerhut

12:15-1:30pm Lunch, EE/CS Atrium

1:30-2:30pm LT and BOF, EE/CS Room 3-180

  1. LT: Increasing The Appeal -- Curriculum adjustments and paradigm shifts to increase interest in Information Technology,
    Marcia Entwistle, Dan Swets
  2. LT: Social Media leveling the platform between men and women on the web can lead to attracting more women to technology.,
    Arshia Khan, Thomas Gibbons, Meridel Kahl, Ritika Jhangiani, Michael Lewis, Joshuah Schmitz, College of St. Scholastica
  3. BOF: Encouraging CS Women through Undergraduate Research,
    Dick Brown and Libby Shoop

1:30-3:00pm Career fair, EE/CS Atrium

Accenture, BI, IBM, Medtronic, PTC, Vital Images.

1:30-3:00pm Resume Clinic and mock interviews, EE/CS Room 3-180

Darlene Tester (Fingerhut), Lara Rubbelke (Microsoft), Carrie Gruber (PTC), Beth Carlson-Stevermer (PTC), Tanya Yourchuck (PTC), Laura Nissen (PTC), Sandy Jacobs (Target), Julie Larson (Target), Maureen O'Boyle (Target), Jenny Petzel (Target), Erica Shelton (Target), Anne Strasser (Target), and more...

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