Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium

Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium

50th Anniversary

April 07–08, 2017

University of Wisconsin–La Crosse

Department of Computer Science

http://faculty.cs.uwlax.edu/~mics2017/

MICS 2017 Robotics Contest Information

MICS 2017 Programming Contest Results

MICS 2017 Programming Contest Problems and Solutions

Session A

Friday, April 07

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

3110 UWL Student Union		Chair: Mao Zheng
12:30 pm	Security Concerns of Registers in Linux Hosts: Using Debug to Find Memory Addresses of Sensitive Data		Hazem Farra, Erich Rice, and Dennis Guster
1:00 pm	Application Level Memory Management Strategies Via the 'Garbage Collector': Performance and Security Ramifications		Abdul Raqeeb, Dennis Guster, and Mark Schmidt

3120 UWL Student Union		Chair: Marty Allen
12:30 pm	Case Study: Information Security Risk Assessment for a Small Healthcare Clinic Using the Security Risk Assessment Tool Provided by HealthIT.gov		Scott Lisbon and Erich Rice
1:00 pm	On the Use of Vulnerable Code in Chromium, the Base of Google Chrome: A Case Study		Melissa Sarnowski, Saleh Alnaeli, Derrek Larson, Keith Ecker, Zachary Blasczyk, and Mark Hall

3130 UWL Student Union		Chair: Tom Gendreau
12:30 pm	Flipping the Classroom: A Case Study		Randy Campbell and Dean Stevens
1:00 pm	Tackling CS education in K-12: Implementing a Google CS4HS Grant Program in a Rural Underserved Area		Sherri Harms

3314 UWL Student Union		Chair: Jason Sauppe
12:30 pm	Practicing the Perceptron: Introducing Data Mining to the CS2 Classroom		François Neville
1:00 pm	On Teaching Big Data Query Languages		Thanaa Ghanem

Poster/Demo Session

Friday, April 07

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Bluffs Hall, 2nd Floor, UWL Student Union
Root Wizard	Seth Gilbert and Chris Johnson
Type Tetris	Daniel Trewin and Chris Johnson
Ultimate Cod Fishing: An Interactive Game for Learning Computer Science	Adrian Abundez-Arce and Chris Johnson
A Scalable Machine Learning Approach for Social News Censorship Prediction	Andrew Quaschnick
Boolean Logic: "Boolean Bomb Squad"	Emma Fischer and Chris Johnson
Reinforcement Learning for Atari 2600 (JStella Learning Environment)	Ian Cichy
Student Grade Reporter	Christian Reese
Educational Videos to Teach Parallel Computing on the Raspberry Pi	Margaret Zimmermann, Jesus Caballero Jr., and Richard Brown

Session B

Friday, April 07

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

3105 UWL Student Union		Chair: Tom Gendreau
2:30 pm	The Structural Analysis and Logical Controller Abstraction of Curator Software		Alexander Staebell and Yi Liu
3:00 pm	Improving Clojure Error Messages for Programming Novices with clojure.spec		Myeongjae Song and Elena Machkasova

3110 UWL Student Union		Chair: Tom Gibbons
2:30 pm	A Many-key Image Encryption Method Using the Lorenz System		Ronald Marsh and Scott Kerlin
3:00 pm	A Secure QR Code Scheme		Julian Brackins and Mengyu Qiao

3120 UWL Student Union		Chair: Chris Johnson
2:30 pm	Exploring World's Interest in Paralympics through Twitter		Venkata Sravya Kalla and Thanaa Ghanem
3:00 pm	Phishing for Users		Sean Stahly, Keathan Fertig, and Matt Miller

3130 UWL Student Union		Chair: John Maraist
2:30 pm	Blending Computer Science and Liberal Arts in a Multi-Disciplinary Graphics Design Program		Donald Heier and Maggie Erickson
3:00 pm	Developing an Interactive GUI dashboard for the Raht Racer		Erik Reis, Josh Wilford, Hamna Zahid, Arsene Foka, and Omar Al-Azzam

3314 UWL Student Union

Chair: Kasi Periyasamy

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Panel: Software Engineering Education - Present and Future

Kasi Periyasamy, Zaid Altahat, Kenny Hunt, Dave Riley,

Derek Riley, and Yan Shi

Session C

Saturday, April 08

9:00 am – 10:00 am

3110 UWL Student Union		Chair: Marty Allen
9:00 am	Data Encryption Device using Radioactive Decay and a Hybrid Quantum Encryption Algorithm		Anthony Kunkel, Karthik Paidi, and Dennis Guster
9:30 am	JavaScript Callbacks: Introducing Concurrency through Callbacks and Closures		Kenny Hunt

3120 UWL Student Union		Chair: Kasi Periyasamy
9:00 am	Defragmenting Textual Data by Leveraging the Syntactic Structure of the English Language		Nathaniel Hayes
9:30 am	Parallelism and replicability: Intel Xeon Phis and protein database querying with the Smith-Waterman algorithm		Jacob Caswell, Brianna Cunniff, Jonathan Lenz, and Phil Nadolny

3130 UWL Student Union		Chair: Andrew Anda
9:00 am	MST-Based and Optimal Grammar-Based (0,1)-Matrix-Vector Product Algorithms		Jeff Witthuhn and Andrew Anda
9:30 am	Augmenting the Computing Ethics Course		Andrew Anda

3310 UWL Student Union

Chair: Mark Fienup

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Birds of a feather session: suggested topics:

Pedagogy: flipped classrooms, online instruction, etc.
Enrollment, retention, hiring of faculty in CS
The future of MICS

Session D

Saturday, April 08

10:30 am – 11:30 am

3110 UWL Student Union		Chair: Marty Allen
10:30 am	Applying Convolutional Neural Networks to Per-pixel Orthoimagery Land Use Classification		Jordan Goetze
11:00 am	Object Classification using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks		Nicholas Boddy

3120 UWL Student Union		Chair: Mao Zheng
10:30 am	Job Board: A Web-Based Scheduler		Cameron Ario and Kasi Periyasamy
11:00 am	Using React Native in an Android App		Yifan Gu, Chaohui Xu, and Mao Zheng

3130 UWL Student Union		Chair: John Maraist
10:30 am	High Performance Computing with 10GB Networking at a Small Institution<\a>		Rachel Frantsen, Stephen Akers, Eric Oseid, and Richard Brown
11:00 am	Managing the Academic Computing Infrastructure in the Age of Automation		Shaun Lynch

3310 UWL Student Union		Chair: Samantha Foley
10:30 am	Introduction to Parallel Processing with an Eight-Node Raspberry Pi Cluster		Bob Laskowski, Greg Dorr, Drew Hagen, and Don Vo
11:00 am	Serving the Underserviced		Curt Hill