MICS 2003 Proceedings

The 36th Annual

Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium

Hosted by The College of St. Scholastica

Authors

 

School

Paper Title

Andrew Allen Anda

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St. Cloud State University

High-Performance Numerical Computation: A Proposal of a Quasi-Capstone Course for CSCI Majors

James Beal, Steve  Case

Student Paper

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Contextual Geolocation - A Specialized Application for Improving Indoor Location Awareness in Wireless LANs

Otto Borchert, Research team ...

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NDSU

Advances in Immersive Virtual Worlds for Science Education

Justin Carlin, Mark Winegar

Student Paper

Mount Marty College

Best Practices for Blackboard

Steve Case

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Minnesota State University, Mankato

Supporting Real-Time Asynchronous Communication within Bluetooth Ad Hoc Networks

Sun B. Chung

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St. Thomas

Exposition As a Learning Tool to Enhance Thinking Skills in Computer Science and Mathematics

Nick DeSteffen, Kalonji Kadima, Yong-Soo Jeon, Daniel  Goulet

Student Paper

University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point

Humane Society Animal Tracking System: A Case Study

Janet Drake

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Univ. of Northern Iowa

Teaching Software Testing: Lessons Learned

Knut-Edvart Ellingsen, Manuel  Penaloza

Student Paper

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Finding a Good Course Schedule

Alec J. Engebretson, Mark M. Meysenburg

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Doane College

Project-Based Courses

Mark Fienup

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Univ. of Northern Iowa

Event-driven Programming in CS I

Shana Fliginger, James Tang, Dr. Manuel Penaloza

 

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Integrating Educational Resources and Curricula through Interactive Software: A Community-based Case Study

Peter Gasper, Caleb Herbst, Chris Rickett, Gregg  Stubbendieck

Student Paper

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

High Level Automated Parallelization of C Code

Tom Gendreau

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Univ. of WI - LaCrosse

Using Java and JDBC in an Introductory Database Course

Benjamin Good

Student Paper

Doane College

Adventures in Robotics

Dennis Guster, Abdullah Al-Hamamah, Paul Safonov

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St Cloud State University

Network Security Log Information: A Preliminary Analysis

Stuart Hansen, Erica Eddy

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UW - Parkside

Introducing Bioinformatics Concepts in CS1

Allan Hart, James Slack

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MN State Univ. - Mankato

Incorporating a servlet programming component in a database or networking course

Jay Hettiarachchy, Gilbert Kuipers

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Ferris State Univ.

Computer Information Systems Curriculum Development Trends

Curt Hill

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Valley City State University

Parsers and Learning Programming in ProgrammingLand

Mark Hines,  Bradley Rosenberger, Edward Joseph Connor, Ahmad Abuhejleh

Student Paper

UW - River Falls & St. Scholastica ADEP - St. Paul

Using XML technologies in Systems Analysis & Design Projects

Kenny Hunt

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Univ. of WI - LaCrosse

Digital Image Processing with Java in Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum

Tim Jacobson, Gregg  Stubbendieck

Student Paper

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Dependency Analysis of For-Loop Structures for Automatic Parallelization of C Code

Penny Johnson

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Carroll College

Top Ten Reasons Not To Use BlackBoard (Course Management Software)

Paul Juell, Jasmeet Bhatia

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NDSU

3D Wizard: A Tool to Easily Build 3D Worlds

Joe Komar

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Univ. of St. Thomas

Preparing Computer Technology Students for the "Real World"

Scott Kuhl

Student Paper

Augsburg College

Perception in Immersive Environments

Curtis Kunkel, Peh Ng

Student Paper

Univ. of MN Morris

Ramsey Numbers: Improving the bounds of R(5,5)

Kent Lee

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Luther College

Teaching Programming Languages through Language Implementation

Yuan Yuan Li, Steve  Case

Student Paper

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Mandarin Chinese

Chi-Cheng Lin, Mingrui Zhang

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Winona State University

The Use of Computer Animation in Teaching Discrete Structures Course

Martha Lindberg

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Minnesota State University, Mankato

Databases that Manage Large Lecture Sections for the Non-Technical User

Doug Moll, Rod Kohout, A.A. Lopez, Engin Sungur, Chad Zeman

Student Paper

Univ. of MN Morris

Performance of 802.11a and 802.11b Networks

Jessica Mack,, Brian M. Slator, Kellee Boulais, Viet Doan, Cole Stanford and the students of CS345

Student Paper

NDSU

Learning by Earning:  The Dollar Bay Project

Daniel C. Markert, Dian  Lopez

Student Paper

Univ. of MN Morris

Data Compression Standards

Ron Marsh, Amarender Challa

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University of North Dakota   

Self-Evaluating Space and Robotic Agents

Merry McDonald, Gary McDonald, Brian Dorn

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Northwest Missouri State University

Teaching Without a Classroom:  Delivering Courses Online

Justin Miller

Student Paper

Univ. of WI - Oshkosh

Developing Pedagogical Visualizations of Dense Matrix Operations on Interconnection-network SIMD Computer

Joel Nelson, Mark Logan, Dian  Lopez

Student Paper

Univ. of MN Morris

A New Min-K-Cut Algorithm with Applications

Jason Nelson

Student Paper

Doane College

Virtual Prairie Dog Simulation Using Genetic Programming

Tien V Nguyen, Hieu T Nguyen

Student Paper

University of Wisconsin - Parkside

Cell-unit algorithm for webcam video compression

Tom O'Neil

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UND

A Development Environment for Formal Languages

Rajendra Penugonda, Steven Case

Student Paper

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Experience Using SQL Server CE to Support Mobile Collection and Analysis of Glucose Data

Noel Petit

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Augsburg College

A College Course on the Internet on the Internet

Victor Piotrowski

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University of Wisconsin-Superior

Information Assurance Curricula and Certifications

Ajaykumar Poondla, Dr.Jeffrey Scot McGough

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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Scientific Computing Tool

Nicholas Rogness, Steven Case

Student Paper

Minnesota State University, Mankato

An Assessment of Design and Implementation Trade-Offs and Their Impact on Mobile Applications

Jachin Rupe, Efoe Akolly, Charles Sheaffer

Student Paper

Augsburg College

A Neural Network Model of the Search Behavior of Cataglyphis Bicolor

Nathan Sachs, Jeff  McGough

Student Paper

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

A Hybrid Process Farm/Work Pool Implementation in a Distributed Environment Using MPI

Akram Salah

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NDSU

Software engineering between Academia and Practice

Annette Schoenberger

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St. Cloud State

Group Assignments:  Some Lessons Learned and Unlearned

Kevin Spires, Marty J.  Wolf

Student Paper

Bemidji State University

Preliminary Results in Replacing a Sorted Array With a Splay Tree in a Memory Intensive Program

Ruchira Kumarasinghe, Victor  Piotrowski

Student Paper

University of Wisconsin-Superior

Design and Implementation of a virtual PunchClock

Kiran Thapa, Steven Case

Student Paper

Minnesota State University, Mankato

An Indoor Positioning Service for Bluetooth Ad Hoc Networks

Monica Van Horn, Angela Richter, Dian  Lopez

Student Paper

Univ. of MN Morris

A Random Graph Generator

William Wehrs, Robert Van Abel

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University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

Data Warehouse: An opportunity for collaboration between administrative computing and academic departments

Daniel Wespetal, Joel Nelson, Dian  Lopez

Student Paper

Univ. of MN Morris

Approximating a Parallel Task Schedule using Longest Path

Sara C. Wieland,  Adam Dunn, Patrick Rice, Blake Dirksen, Simon Halbur, Thomas Gotto, Angela Torres, Todd Swift, Danial J. Neebel

Student Paper

Loras College

Wireless, Web-Controlled, Ball-Collecting Robot 

Qi Yang

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University of Wisconsin at Platteville

Teaching Visual Basic after C++/Java

Chad Zeman, Doug Moll, Andy Lopez

Student Paper

Univ. of MN Morris

What differences does a lab make in teaching TCP/IP