Proceedings of the 48th Annual
Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium
Hosted by the University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND on April 10-11, 2015
Memorial Union - University of North Dakota
Thanks to Our MICS 2015 Sponsors!
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Bronze Sponsors
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Career Fair Friday, April 10 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Dakota Lounge
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12:00 - 4:30 pm |
Digi-Key |
Curt Huot, Shawn Rakowski, Chris Kramer, Tim Julius, Ben DeHaan |
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Rockwell Collins |
Elise Loan, Donald Kearney, Michael Veit |
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Fast Enterprises |
Heidi Sayler, Evan Sylvester |
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Epic |
Eric Howe, Josh Leverington |
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Iteris |
Eric Kjeldergaard, Robert Bergman |
Opening Remarks Ballroom Noon - 12:15 pm
Panel Friday, April 10 12:20 pm – 1:20 pm
Ballroom
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12:20 - 1:20 pm |
Kevin Streff, Isaiah P. Grothe, Evan Sylvester, and Donald Kearney
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Poster Session Friday, April 10 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Dakota Lounge
Technical Session I Friday, April 10 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Session I.A: River Valley Room Session Chair: Ron Marsh Theme: Undergrad Research
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1:30 pm |
Lydia Sinapova and Derek Lyons, Simpson College |
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2:00 pm |
Involvement of Undergraduate Students in Research: A Comparison of Course Research Components, Paid Research Activities, Student-Led Projects and Independent / Directed Study Courses |
Jeremy Straub, University of North Dakota |
Session I.B: Lecture Bowl Session Chair: Wen-Chen Hu Theme: Cloud / Big Data
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1:30 pm |
Analyzing and Moving Virtualization of Resources in the Cloud to Enhance Security and Performance |
Dennis Guster, Ashok Jonnalagadda and Laura Lebentritt, St. Cloud State University |
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2:00 pm |
An Empirical Study of NoSQL Databases by Using MongoDB Databases |
Wen-Chen Hu, Naima Kaabouch, U North Dakota, and Hung-Jen Yang, Kaohsiung Normal University Taiwan |
Session I.C: Badlands Room Session Chair: Emanuel Grant Theme: Mobile / Database Applications
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1:30 pm |
Crowdsourcing Automobile Parking Availability Sensing Using Mobile Phones |
Bereket Kifle, Jesus Villalobos, Jesus Quevedo-Torrero and Derek Riley, University of Wisconsin - Parkside |
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2:00 pm |
Punith Etikala, Laura Lebentritt, Erich Rice and Dennis Guster, St. Cloud State University |
Session I.D: Ballroom Session Chair: Peter Bui Theme: Web Applications
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1:30 pm |
Grant Wuerker and Peter Bui, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire |
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2:00 pm |
Lucas Novoa, Charles Volzka and Peter Bui, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire |
Technical Session II Friday, April 10 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Session II.A: River Valley Room Session Chair: Noel Petit Theme: Distributed Computing
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3:00 pm |
Eric Krenz, Mary Pearson and Anne Denton, North Dakota State University |
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3:30 pm |
Ken Johnson, Merhawi Temnewo, Katherine Polys, Don Vo, Paulina Vo, Christian Grant and Noel Petit, Augsburg College |
Session II.B: Lecture Bowl Session Chair: Mark Hall Theme: Computer Science Education
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3:00 pm |
Integration of Mathematical Concepts in the Computer Science, Information Technology and Management Information Science Curriculum |
Donald Heier, Erik Sand, Mary Reed and Kathryn Lemm, University of Jamestown |
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3:30 pm |
Curt Hill and Razib Iqbal, Valley City State University |
Session II.C: Badlands Room Session Chair: David Apostal Theme: Mobile Applications
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3:00 pm |
Francisco Mateo, David Sobol, Jesus Quevedo-Torrero and Derek Riley, University of Wisconsin - Parkside |
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3:30 pm |
Session II.D: Ballroom Session Chair: Hassan Reza Theme: Software Testing / Security
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3:00 pm |
Akalanka Mailewa and Jayantha Herath, St. Cloud State University |
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3:30 pm |
Gone Phishing: Surveying college students on phishing awareness and competency |
Steven Vue, Mark Schmidt and Erich Rice, St. Cloud State University |
Keynote: Dr. David P. Anderson
Topic: Volunteer Computing and the BOINC Software System
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Dr. David P. Anderson will give a Keynote address on the topic of Volunteer Computing and the BOINC software system. Dr. Anderson is a Research Scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. He directs the BOINC project, which develops middleware for volunteer computing. Dr. Anderson received graduate degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He served on the faculty of the UC Berkeley Computer Science Department from 1985 to 1992, then worked at several startup companies before returning to the University. His research interests include volunteer computing, distributed, real-time and multimedia systems, computer graphics, and computer music. |
Technical Session III Saturday, April 11 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Session III.A: River Valley Room Session Chair: Scott Kerlin Theme: Academic Network Administration
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9:00 am |
MiNet: Managing Internet Connectivity in Academic Computing Labs |
Shaun Lynch, University of Wisconsin - Superior |
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9:30 am |
Deploying an IPv4-IPv6 Dual-Stack Network in an Academic Computing Infrastructure |
Shaun Lynch, University of Wisconsin - Superior |
Session III.B: Lecture Bowl Session Chair: Marty Wolf Theme: Computer Science Education
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9:00 am |
Nifty Assignment: Model the Monte Hall Problem through Event-Driven Programming |
Andrew Anda, St. Cloud State University |
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9:30 am |
Mark Fienup, University of Northern Iowa |
Session III.C: Badlands Room Session Chair: Emanuel Grant Theme: Web / Mobile Applications
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9:00 am |
The Fakktion Blog: Prototype of a blogging application that uses relational design |
Deovandski Skibinski Junior and Anne Denton, North Dakota State University |
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9:30 am |
Sanhu Li, Mao Zheng and Hao Fan, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse |
Session III.D: Ballroom Session Chair: Ron Marsh Theme: Systems and Control
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9:00 am |
Daniel Corrigan and Brandon Rossell, Doane College |
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9:30 am |
Utilizing the Portability of Docker to Design a Portable and Scalable Continuous Integration Stack |
Jordan Goetze, North Dakota State University |
Technical Session IV Saturday, April 11 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Session IV.A: River Valley Room Session Chair: Scott Kerlin Theme: Scientific Applications
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10:30 am |
Modeling of Linker Stoichiometry for Optimization of DNA Nanostructure Self-Assembly |
Maddie Thomas, Esteban Sierra and Blake Tish, Simpson College |
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11:00 am |
Max McGrath, Anna Munns, Otto Borchert, Guy Hokanson, Jeffrey Clark, Kathleen T. Cox, Brian M. Slator, North Dakota State University |
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11:30 am |
Jingbo Chu, Yu Qiu, Mao Zheng and Tom Gendreau, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse |
Session IV.B: Lecture Bowl Session Chair: Elena Machkasova Theme: Tools for Teaching
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10:30 am |
Ron McFadyen, University of Winnipeg |
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11:00 am |
Developing beginner-friendly user interactions for the Clojure programming language |
Henry Fellows, Aaron Lemmon, Max Magnuson, Emma Sax, Paul Schliep and Elena Machkasova, University of Minnesota - Morris |
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11:30 am |
David Pagels, University of Minnesota - Morris |
Session IV.C: Badlands Room Session Chair: David Apostal Theme: Algorithms / AI
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10:30 am |
Emily Alfs, Doane College |
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11:00 am |
Pronoun Reference Resolution On the Dutch Word ‘Het’, An Empirical Study |
Bram Oosterlee and Noel Petit, Augsburg College |
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11:30 am |
Optimizing(0,1)-Matrix-Vector Product Computations via Minimum Spanning Trees |
Jeffrey Witthuhn and Andrew Anda, St. Cloud State University |
