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Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium:

The Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS) is a regional conference dedicated to providing an educational experience to higher education participants. The conference focuses on integrating computer-based technology into teaching and learning processes of all disciplines, along with incorporating the study of this technology into the curriculum.

The Symposium was established in 1967, making it one of the nation’s oldest conferences focusing on computer-related issues at smaller higher education institutions. MICS was formerly known as the Small College Computing Symposium.

For more information on the history and goals of MICS, see http://www.micsymposium.org.

Keynote:

Andrew Elofson

Founder of PCs for People

PCs for People was formed in 1998 when Andy Elofson, a Blue Earth County social worker, arranged a donation for a local teen that was computerless. In 2001 a relationship/internship program was developed with Minnesota State University - Mankato. Since that time, PCs For People has donated thousands of computers to those who would not otherwise have the opportunity to easily access technology and actually own a computer.

PCs for People takes donated computers and rebuilds, refurbishes and redistributes them to people with limited access to technology. PCs for People allows people to give something back to the community and increase their knowledge of computers in doing so. In 2010, PCs for People was awarded a contract to distribute 1,000 computers to low income families throughout the state of Minnesota.

Technical Session I DECC 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 302 Chair: Paul Wagner
12:30 PM	Nifty Assignments: A Team & Project Oriented Undergraduate Computer Graphics Course	Ronald Marsh
1:00 PM	Nifty Assignment: Ethics in Artificial Intelligence using Robot-based Movies	Kristine Peters

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 202 Chair: Karen Arlien
12:30 PM	Overtime Effects on Project Team Effectiveness	Brandon Olson, David Swenson
1:00 PM	Mobile Augmented Reality for Grocery Shopping	Monica Thompson, Daniel Stevenson
1:30 PM	A Comparative Analysis to Validate the Benefits of Formal Versus Informal Software Model Transformation	Kaden Daley, Emanuel Grant

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 203 Chair: Joseph Clifton
12:30 PM	Developing Computational Thinking Skills across the Undergraduate Curriculum	Christopher Kuster, John Symms, Christopher May, Chenglie Hu
1:00 PM	A modular approach to teaching parallelism at all levels of CS curricula	Richard Brown, Elizabeth Shoop
1:30 PM	Introductory Programming using Processing	Mark Meysenburg

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 204 Chair: Elena Machkasova
12:30 PM	A Mobile World Wide Web Focused Search Engine Using Implicit Feedback	Malvika Pimple, Wen-Chen Hu
1:00 PM	Security Policy Concerns in a Virtualized Host/Network Environment	Dennis Guster, Olivia Lee, Dustin Rogers
1:30 PM	Runtime Characteristics of the Quadratic Sieve	Chad Seibert, Dave Roberts

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 205 Chair: Yi Liu
12:30 PM	A Parallel Depth-first Search Algorithm for Global Optimization Using Interval Analysis	Adam Baldwin, Asai Asaithambi
1:00 PM	Virtualizing Network Traffic To Improve Performance and Security in a Virtualized Production Environment	Corey Hemminger, Smith Martin, Nicole Gillespie, Dennis Guster
1:30 PM	Classifying Networks for Network Coding	William Janssen, Eric Manley

Technical Session II DECC 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 302 Chair: Noel Petit
2:30 PM	Trends in Computer Science Laboratories	Stuart Hansen,
3:00 PM		Paul Wagner,
3:30 PM		Kent Lee, Terrence Mason

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 202 Chair: Qi Yang
2:30 PM	Using the Wiimote in Computer Graphics Projects	Joseph Clifton
3:00 PM	Teaching Map-reduce Parallel Computing in CS1	Richard Brown, Elizabeth Shoop, Patrick Garrity, Timothy Yates
3:30 PM	Introducing Software Engineering to the Freshman Student	Yi Liu, Wei Wang, Onyeka Ezenwoye

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 203 Chair: Cate Sheller
2:30 PM	Helping Bridge the Digital Divide: Solutions for Technological Deprivation, Affordable Connectivity and Acquiring Needed Computer Skills	Scott Jones
3:00 PM	Video Game Education	Brian Flannery
3:30 PM	Animation Techniques: A comparison	Narda Hamilton, Ronald Marsh

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 204 Chair: Mike Rowe
2:30 PM	On Clustering in the Subset Sum Problem	Thomas O'Neil
3:00 PM	Item Retention Improvements to Dropsort, a Lossy Sorting Algorithm	Abram Jackson, Ryan Mcculloch
3:30 PM	Improving error messages in the Clojure programming language	Brian Goslinga, Eugene Butler, Elena Machkasova

Topic Harbor Side Convention Center – Room 205 Chair: Andrew Anda
2:30 PM	Intelligent GPS Systems	Chad Seibert, Peh Ng
3:00 PM	Optimization of Job Efficiency in a Heterogeneous and Distributed Beowulf Cluster through Node and Job Analysis	Robert Foertsch, Matti Kariluoma, Brian M. Slator
3:30 PM	Principles for the Exploration and Construction of Reactive Swarm Systems	Karl Altenburg

Technical Session III CSS 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Topic Tower 2607 Chair: Terry Mason
8:30 AM	Nifty Assignment: Parallelism in a Data Structures course using Java threads and concurrent data structures	Elizabeth Shoop, Shilad Sen, Richard Brown
9:00 AM	Nifty Assignment: A Rigorous Course Sequence Based on VB.NET	Qi Yang
9:30 AM	Nifty Assignment: iOS 3D Game Development using Unity3	Kuravi Hewawasam

Topic Tower 2611 Chair: Imad Rahal
8:30 AM	Using Python, Django and MySQL in a Database Course	Thomas Gendreau
9:00 AM	Enabling Group Work: Developing an Automated Evaluation System that Collects, Manages, and Analyzes Student Performance Data	Shaun Lynch
9:30 AM	Computer Science: Teaching Methods - Artificial Intelligence in Gaming	Shinjini Kar

Topic Tower 3121 Chair: Kenneth Grenier
8:30 AM	Playing a Virtual Musical Instrument	Matthew Stangel, Dan Torgerson, Mike Rowe
9:00 AM	Google Earth Visualization of Magnetometer Data	Brian Love, Noel Petit
9:30 AM	LandscapeEC: Adding Geographical Structure to Cellular Evolutionary Algorithms	Lucas Ellgren, Nicholas Mcphee

Topic Tower 3150 Chair: Ron Marsh
8:30 AM	Can You Trust Your JVM Diagnostics?	Isaac Sjoblom, Tim S. Snyder, Elena Machkasova
9:00 AM	Browsing Mobile World Wide Web by Using Intelligent Web Recommendations	Anupam Thakur, Wen-Chen Hu
9:30 AM	Using An Enhanced Dictionary to Facilitate Auditing Techniques Related to Brute Force SSH and FTP Attacks	Ryan Mcdougall, Nicole Gillespie, Dennis Guster

Technical Session IV CSS 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Topic Tower 2607 Chair: Stu Hansen
10:30 AM	Nifty assignment: Introducing issues in concurrency using the Manycore Testing Lab	Richard Brown, Elizabeth Shoop
11:00 AM	Nifty Assignment: OS Project for Today's Student	James Jones
11:30 AM	Nifty Assignment: An insightful empirical comparison of sorting algorithms	Elena Machkasova

Topic Tower 2611 Chair: Nic McPhee
10:30 AM	Teaching in China, Teaching Chinese Students in the U. S.	Curt Hill
11:00 AM	Comparison of Online Tools That Can Be Used to Enhance CS1 Distance Learning	Mark Hall
11:30 AM

Topic Tower 3121 Chair: Karl Altenburg
10:30 AM	Noise and Erosion Algorithms for use in Procedurally Generated Content	Travis Archer
11:00 AM	Comparing Quantum Random Number Generators to Traditional Pseudo-Random Number Generators for Effective Key Generation	Dustin Rogers, Joseph Mbari
11:30 AM	Implementing a Distributed Key Algorithm to Enhance Confidentiality and Provide Fault Tolerance	Isaac Rego, Nicole Gillespie, Dennis Guster

Topic Tower 3150 Chair: Jennifer Rosato
10:30 AM	A Web-based Testing Tool	Yaozhong Li, Bohong Zhou, Bian Wu, Mao Zheng, Tom Gendreau
11:00 AM	Verification & Validation of Object-Oriented Functional Design using Formal Specification Techniques	Vanessa Jackson
11:30 AM	Lock-Free Algorithms for Thread-Safe Programming	Patrick Garrity