Proceedings of the 42nd
Midwest Instruction and Computing
Symposium (MICS 2009)
April 17-18, 2009
South
Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Concurrent Session I Friday April 17 10-11:30a.m. |
Student
Projects Room:
CB 309 Chair: |
||
10:00 am |
Caleb Spronk |
|
10:20 am |
Paul Dadah |
|
10:45 am |
Nick Walker |
|
11:05 am |
Brad Riske |
Programming
Languages Room: CB 203 Chair: |
||
10:00 am |
Jeremy Bleichner |
|
10:20 am |
Kevin Arhelger |
|
10:45 am |
Implementation of an Optimal Matrix-Chain
Product Exploiting Matrix Specialization |
Swetha Kukkala |
11:05 am |
J. C. Bugner |
Web Technologies Room: CB 205 Chair: Antonette
Logar |
||
10:00 am |
Adam Rossmiller |
|
10:20 am |
Assessing the Effectiveness of the Model
View Controller Architecture for Creating Web Applications |
Nick Heidke |
10:45 am |
Jaelle Scheuerman |
|
11:05 am |
Usage of a Web-Based Factorial Experiment
Testing System (FETS) |
Nem Schlecht |
Curriculum and
Recruitment Room: CB 206 Chair: Edward Corwin |
||
10:00 am |
James Bohy |
|
10.30 am |
Shaun Lynch |
|
11.00 am |
Using Recursive Java Generics to Support
Code Reuse in the CS2 Course |
Andrew Holey |
Concurrent Session II Friday April 17 1-2:30p.m. |
Computer Systems Room:
CB 309 Chair: |
||
1:00 pm |
Using Recycled Computers to Construct a
Beowulf Cluster for Molecular Modeling |
Creston Fleming |
1:20 pm |
Joshua Job |
|
1:45 pm |
Exploring Cache Optimization for
Bioinformatics Applications |
Shannon Dybvig |
2:05 pm |
Spencer Herzberg |
Panel Discussions Room: CB 330 Moderator: Val Manes |
||
1:00 pm |
Restoring the
Popularity of Computer Science: Curriculum adjustments, paradigms shifts, and
marketing strategies to increase interest in Information Technology |
Marcia Entwistle |
1:45 pm |
James Bohy |
Classroom
Innovation and Management Room: CB 203 Chair: |
||
1:00 pm |
Don Gable |
|
1:30 pm |
Virtual DUSEL (vDUSEL)
The Online Educational Project for Sanford Center for Science Education |
Stephen Krebsbach |
2:00 pm |
Mark S. Hall |
Algorithms Room: CB 205 Chair: |
||
1:00 pm |
Top 10 Guidelines (More or Less) for Making
Good Oral Presentations |
John Weiss |
1:20 pm |
A Graphical User Interface for Analysis of
Friction Stir Welds |
Michael Janes |
1:45 pm |
Determining Critical Regions to Empirically
Verify Thresholds within the Partitioning Problem |
Scott Kerlin |
2:05 pm |
Tyler Haugen |
Networks and OS Room:
CB 206 Chair: Ziliang
Zong |
||
1:00 pm |
Implementation of the Multi-Threading
Support Framework of A User-level Transport Mechanism |
Yong Lai |
1:20 pm |
Implementation of the Deadline-based
Selective Retransmission For Maintaining Low End-to-End Delays |
Suhas Lande |
1:45 pm |
Collin Anderson |
|
2:05 pm |
Joshua Job |
Concurrent Session III Saturday April 18 8:30-10:00a.m. |
Algorithms Room:
CB 309 Chair: |
||
8:30 am |
Thomas O’Neil |
|
9:00 am |
Edward Corwin |
|
9:30 am |
Patrick Fleming |
Programming
Languages Room: CB 330 Chair: |
||
8:30 am |
Design and Implementation Issues In
Developing An Online Tool Repository |
Jordan Ritz |
9:00 am |
Daniel Ehrenberg |
|
9:30 am |
James Juett |
Artificial
Intelligence Room: CB 203 Chair: John Weiss |
||
8:30 am |
Continuous-Wave Stepped-Frequency Radar for
Target Ranging and Motion Detection |
John Weiss |
9:00 am |
John Weiss |
|
9:30 am |
Edward Taylor |
Network Room: CB 205 Chair: |
||
8:30 am |
James Yu |
|
9:00 am |
Ron Marsh |
|
9:30 am |
Dennis Guster |
Poster
Session Room: CB 206 Chair: |
||
8:30 am – 10:00
am |
What should the
format of an introductory computer science course be that includes
non-majoring and undeclared students? |
Shana Watters |
The Simplex
Method Cycles |
Anne Hillebrand |
|
Live-and-Tell
language-sharing system |
Biagio Arobba |
|
Real-Time Fuzzy Logic Controllers for
Autonomous Robot Navigation with U-Shaped Obstacles |
Nian Zhang |
Concurrent Session IV Saturday April 18 10:30-noon. |
Panel Discussion Room : CB 309 Moderator: |
||
10:30 am |
Addressing the
Conflicting Needs of an Introductory Computer Science Course |
Shana Watters |
11:15 am |
Establishing
Standards for Delivering Online Undergraduate Courses: Lessons from the
Trenches |
Gail Hodge |
Pedagogical
Techniques Room :
CB 203 Chair: |
||
10:30 am |
Brandon Holt |
|
11:00 am |
Rob Robinson |
|
11:30 am |
Curt Hill |
Research
Presentations Room: CB 205 Chair: |
||
10:30 am |
Detecting Wormholes in Friction Stir Welds
from Welding Feedback Data |
Antonette Logar |
11:00 am |
Efficient and Effective Practical
Algorithms for the Set-Covering Problem |
Qi Yang |
11:30 am |
John Weiss |
Artificial
Intelligence Room: CB 206 Chair: |
||
10:30 am |
Alan Christianson |
|
11:00 am |
Web Content Adaptation for Internet-Enabled
Mobile Handheld Devices |
Wen-Chen Hu |
11:30 am |
Agent Smith: An Application of Neural
Networks to Directing Intelligent Agents in a Game Environment |
Tyler Haugen |
Acknowledgements
The
Organizing Committee for MICS 2009 thanks to our sponsors; keynote speaker;
faculty presenters and volunteers; attendees; student presenters and
volunteers; the staff of the Educational Program; the chair, faculty and staff
of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science; MICS Steering Committee,
and the school administration for the support to this symposium. We hope our
visitors have a great stay in the Black Hills, and the attendees enjoy the
symposium.