Proceedings
of the 49th Annual Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium
Hosted by the University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa on April 22 – 23, 2016
Thanks
to Our MICS 2016 Sponsors!
Technical Session I 1:00
– 2:00 PM Friday, April 22
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ITTC 28 |
Security |
Session Chair: Terry Letsche |
|
1:00 |
A Novel Multi-touch Authentication
Scheme for Mobile Devices |
Dicheng Wu and Mengyu Qiao |
|
1:30 |
Laura
Lebentritt, Raqeeb Abdul
and Dennis Guster |
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ITTC 29 |
Algorithm Complexity |
Session Chair: Andrew Anda |
|
1:00 |
Developing a Memory Efficient Heuristic
Algorithm for Playing m, n, k Games |
Nathaniel
Hayes and Teig Loge |
|
1:30 |
Comparison of (0,1)-Matrix-Vector Product
Difference-Based Algorithms |
Jeffrey
Witthuhn and Andrew Anda |
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ITTC 134/136 |
Faculty Birds-of-Feather |
Session Chair: Mark Hall |
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|
1:00
– 2:00 |
Suggested
Topics: 1)
Pedagogy:
Lecture, Flipped-classroom, On-line instruction, etc. 2)
Enrollment, Retention, Faculty Hiring in Computer
Science 3)
Future of MICS |
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ITTC 322 |
Mobile Interfaces |
Session Chair: Mao Zheng |
|
1:00 |
User Interface Adaption in Android
Device for Orientation Change |
Qian
Xu, Sihan Cheng and Mao Zheng |
|
1:30 |
Sihan Cheng, Qian Xu
and Mao Zheng |
|
ITTC 328 |
Robotics Contest Practice Board |
|
1:00
- 3:30 |
A
practice board and map are available to share. |
Posters/Demonstrations
|
Demonstration ITTC 146A (N. Balcony) |
Samantha
S. Foley, Dan Koepke, Christa Brehm,
Justin Ragatz and Jason Regina |
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Poster |
Reinforcement
Learning for Advanced Board Game AI |
Derek
Stotz and Larry Pyeatt |
|
Poster |
Meteorological
Visualization using MATLAB and a Gaming Engine |
Joseph
Kelzenberg and Mark Petzold |
|
Poster |
Recommender
Systems Using Cluster Analysis on Semantic Tag Data |
Hope
Haugstad |
|
Poster |
Digital
Notes for Students with Disabilities |
Bennett
Carson |
Technical Session II 2:30
– 3:30 PM Friday, April 22
|
ITTC 28 |
Stochastic and Quantum Computing |
Session Chair: Dennis Guster |
|
2:30
|
Paul
Ryan, Shivam Soni, Renat Sultanov and Dennis Guster |
|
|
3:00 |
Karthik Paidi, Anthony Kunkel, Dennis Guster,
Renat Sultanov and Erich
Rice |
|
ITTC 29 |
Image Processing |
Session Chair: Noel Petit |
|
2:30 |
Daniel
Nix and Jeff McGough |
|
|
3:00 |
Mason
Stilwell, Jack Hamby and Conrad Parker |
|
ITTC 134/136 |
Computer Science Education |
Session Chair: Thomas O’Neil |
|
2:30
|
Towards Math Integration in the Computer
Science and Technology Curriculum |
Donald
Heier, Mary Reed, Erik Sand and Kathryn Lemm |
|
3:00 |
Thomas
O'Neil |
|
ITTC 322 |
Miscellaneous Algorithms |
Session Chair: Derek Riley |
|
2:30
|
Christopher
Hanson and Salem Hildebrandt |
|
|
3:00 |
Michael
Fischer and Derek Riley |
|
ITTC 328 |
Robotics Contest Practice Board |
|
1:00
- 3:30 |
A
practice board and map are available to share. |
Technical Session III 8:30 – 9:30 AM Saturday, April 23
|
ITTC 28 |
Machine Learning |
Session Chair: Timothy
Urness |
|
8:30
|
Identifying Splice Sites Of Messenger
RNA Using Support Vector Machines |
Paige
Diamond, Zachary Elkins, Kayla Huff, Lauren Naylor, Sarah Schoeberle,
Shannon White, Timothy Urness and Matthew Zwier |
|
9:00 |
Emily
Alfs |
|
ITTC 29 |
Image Processing |
Session Chair: Stuart Hansen |
|
8:30
|
Abdel-Rahman
Madkour, Margaret Connell and John Stone |
|
|
9:00 |
Stephen
Akers, Nadia El Mouldi and Thomas Weihe |
|
ITTC 134/136 |
Web App
|
Session Chair: Derek Riley |
|
8:30
|
Elijah
Verdoorn, Joe Peterson and Austin Pejovich |
|
|
9:00 |
Michael
Carey and Derek Riley |
|
ITTC 322 |
Networking |
Session Chair: Shaun Lynch |
|
8:30
|
Making Progress on IPv6: New Insights
after an IPv4-IPv6 Dual-Stack Deployment |
Shaun
Lynch |
|
9:00 |
Deploying a Virtualized Network Infrastructure
in an Academic Computing Environment |
Shaun
Lynch |
|
ITTC 328 |
Programming Languages |
Session Chair: Elena Machkasova |
|
8:30 |
Henry
Fellows, Sean Stockholm, Thomas Hagen and Elena Machkasova |
|
|
9:00 |
Examining
The Prevalence and The Historical Trends of Indirect Function Calls in Open
Source Systems: A Case Study, gcc 2001-2011 |
Saleh
M. Alnaeli and Melissa Sarnowski |
Technical Session IV 10:00 – 11:00 AM Saturday, April 23
|
ITTC 28 |
Miscellaneous |
Session Chair: Sean Stahly |
|
10:00 |
Sean
Stahly and John Hastings |
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|
10:30 |
Tianyu Pang, Nathan Maveus and Soren Bjornstad |
|
ITTC 29 |
Neural Networks |
Session Chair: Scott Kerlin |
|
10:00 |
Performing Semantic Segmentation on an
Extremely Small Dataset |
Rodney
Lalonde, Hao Du, Ryan van Mechelen
and Skylar Zhang |
|
10:30 |
Using Neural Networks to Detect Examples
of Ad Hominim in Politics and Microblogging
Platforms |
Jordan
Goetze |
|
ITTC 134/136 |
Image Processing & Computer Vision |
Session Chair: Jeff McGough |
|
10:00 |
Using Computer Vision to Assist the
Scoring of Modern Fencing |
Stephanie
Athow and Jeff McGough |
|
10:30 |
Refining 3D Reconstruction Of Stereo
Camera Images With Least Squares |
Jacob
Forster, Joseph Jung and Andrew Turnblad |
|
ITTC 328 |
Computer Science Education Pedagogy |
Session Chair: Sherri
Harms |
|
10:00 |
Christine
Sorensen, Andrew Hoover and Christer Karlsson |
|
|
10:30 |
Enabling Student Innovation through
Virtual Reality Development |
Sherri
Harms |
Keynote
Dr. Sarah Diesburg
Dr. Sarah Diesburg
is an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Iowa. Her research
interests address security and privacy on electronic storage, where she is
published in multiple conferences and journals. She received her Ph.D. in
Computer Science in 2012 from Florida State University, her M.S. degree in
Information Assurance in 2008 from Florida State University, and her B.S.
degree in Computer Science in 2004 from the University of Northern Iowa.
Talk Title: Ghosts of Deletions Past: New Research and
Challenges in Securely Deleting Your Data