Proceedings of the
45th Annual Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium
Department of Computer Science
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614
April 13 - 14, 2012
Technical Session I 12:30 - 2 PM Friday, April 13
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ITTC 28 |
Artificial Intelligence Applications |
Session Chair: Philip East |
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12:30 |
Pye Phyo Maung |
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1:00 |
Approximating Missing Results using an Artificial Neural Network |
Tyler Kostuch, Trent Thomas, Tim Julius, Jayson Walberg, Josette Staples, David Block and Francois Neville |
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1:30 |
Augmenting Crowd-sourcing Techniques with Artificial Intelligence |
Travis Archer |
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ITTC 29 |
3D Modeling and Computer Vision |
Session Chair: Olaf Hall-Holt |
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12:30 |
James Ribe, Alora Killian and Daniel Anderson |
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1:00 |
Polygon-Based Stereo Matching Using Normalized Cross Correlation |
Bjorn Mellem and Francois Guiot |
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1:30 |
Matt Blanchard, Cody Gronseth and Jon Sandness |
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ITTC 134/146 |
Educational Technology |
Session Chair: Ben Schafer |
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12:30 |
Curt Hill |
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1:00 |
Don Gable |
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1:30 |
Student-Owned Devices for Classroom-wide Communication and Collaboration |
J. Ben Schafer and Stephen Hughes |
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ITTC 322/328 |
Misc.: Video Game Development & 3D-Display Technology |
Session Chair: Thomas Gibbons |
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12:30 |
Curtis Mackie |
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1:00 |
Thomas Griebel and Nicholas Burek |
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1:30 |
Mary Scaramuzza, Shane Nelson and Nicholas Blackhawk |
Break, Career Fair, and Poster in Lounge Area on 100 Level of ITTC
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Poster |
Comparing Single-Agent and Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in a Cooperative Setting |
Douglas Macfarland |
Technical Session II 2:30 – 4:00 PM Friday, April 13
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ITTC 28 |
Genetic Algorithms |
Session Chair: Joseph Clifton |
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2:30 |
Chris Craven |
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3:00 |
Nicholas Cornhill |
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3:30 |
Joel Gawarecki, Adam Smith, Jaris Van Maanen and Linsey Williams |
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ITTC 29 |
Mobile Applications |
Session Chair: Ben Schafer |
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2:30 |
Architecture Design to Support a Smartphone-based Student Response System |
Alexander Preston and Aaron Mangel |
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3:00 |
Location-Based Services Design and Implementation Using Android Platforms |
Wen-Chen Hu, Naima Kaabouch, Hung-Jen Yang and Ather Sharif |
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3:30 |
Qi Lai, Mao Zheng and Tom Gendreau |
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ITTC 134/136 |
Computer Science Educational Tools |
Session Chair: Brandon Olson |
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2:30 |
Robert W. Hasker, James Reid and Andrew Rosene |
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3:00 |
Yiwen Wang and Mao Zheng |
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3:30 |
Reshaping Curriculum Design from Concept to Assessment through Technology Driven Methodologies |
Washington Helps and Emanuel Grant |
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ITTC 322/328 |
Computer Systems |
Session Chair: Dennis Guster |
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2:30 |
Rebuilding an Academic Network Infrastructure Employing Virtualization and Failover Clustering |
Shaun Lynch |
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3:00 |
Using Node and Batch Analysis to Efficiently Render Animations |
Robert Foertsch and Brian Slator |
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3:30 |
Configuring and Tuning a Distributed Computer System to Support Complex Molecular Simulation: Phase I Collecting Performance Metrics |
Medina Sultanova, Jake Soenneker and Dennis Guster |
Technical Session III 8:30 – 10:00 AM Saturday, April 14
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ITTC 28 |
Algorithms |
Session Chair: Thomas O'Neil |
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8:30 |
Zachariah Huebener and Kylie Van Houten |
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9:00 |
Sam Estrem and Kurt Krebsbach |
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9:30 |
Thomas O'Neil |
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ITTC 29 |
3D Modeling and Cameras |
Session Chair: Olaf Hall-Holt |
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8:30 |
Stereo Image Capture and Interest Point Correlation for Interior 3D Modeling |
Eileen King, Tommy Markley and Andrew Crocker |
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9:00 |
Refinement of Plane Based Calibration Through Enhanced Precision of Feature Detection |
Rogan Magee, Jared Brown and Leah Roth |
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9:30 |
Creating Panoramic Images: A Hardware Comparison Between Sony BRC-300 and EVI-HD1 Cameras |
Chris Cornelius, Charles Nye and Ian McGinnis |
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ITTC 134/136 |
Computer Science Education |
Session Chair: Thomas Gibbons |
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8:30 |
Western Technical College and University of Wisconsin - La Crosse 2+2 Computer Engineering Technology-Computer Science Program |
Jeff Fancher and Thomas Gendreau |
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9:00 |
Mark Meysenburg |
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9:30 |
Transforming the Curriculum with Big Data: The Need for Data Resources in the Computer Science Curriculum |
Brandon Olson and Thomas Gibbons |
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ITTC 322/328 |
Security |
Session Chair: Joline Morrison |
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8:30 |
Zachary Forster, Isaac Schemm, David Spiegel, Matthew Wisby, Joline Morrison and Mike Morrison |
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9:00 |
Susan Lincke |
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9:30 |
Using the Strombringer System Tool Suite to Test for Vulnerabilities in a University Research and Development Autonomous System |
Dimitri Podkorytov, Dennis Guster and Jake Soenneker |
Technical Session IV 10:30 AM- Noon Saturday, April 14
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ITTC 28 |
Artificial Intelligence Applications |
Session Chair: Philip East |
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10:30 |
Erik Steinmetz, Noel Petit and Ahmet Erciyas |
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11:00 |
Colin Potts and Kurt Krebsbach |
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11:30 |
EnMAS: A New Tool for Multi-Agent Systems Research and Education |
Connor Doyle and Martin Allen |
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ITTC 29 |
Misc. Computer Science Education |
Session Chair: Tom Stokke |
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10:30 |
Sherri Harms |
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11:00 |
The Kiwi Project Revisited: Promoting Student Learning Though Community Involvement |
Tom Stokke |
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11:30 |
Philip Polstra |
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ITTC 134/136 |
Novel Computer Science Courses |
Session Chair: Stephen Hughes |
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10:30 |
Evaluating the Use of Flowchart-based RAPTOR Programming in CS0 |
Michael Thompson |
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11:00 |
Three-phase Motor Control in a Real-Time Embedded Systems Programming Course |
Joseph Clifton |
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11:30 |
Teaching Mobile Computing using Proof-of-Concept and Studio-based Instruction |
Stephen Hughes |
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ITTC 228 |
Misc. Java Programming Language |
Session Chair: Mark Hall |
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10:30 |
Stephen Adams |
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11:00 |
The Role of Method Call Optimizations in the Efficiency of Java Generics |
Jeffrey Lindblom, Seth Sorensen and Elena Machkasova |
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11:30 |
Mark Hall |
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ITTC 322/328 |
Web Services |
Session Chair: Noel Petit |
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10:30 |
Joseph Lee and Eunjin Kim |
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11:00 |
Brian Dawn and Noel Petit |
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11:30 |
Jack Spirou, Erik Steinmetz, Wojciech Komornicki and Noel Petit |