First New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium:
Celebrating Excellence and Diversity in Computer Science

The committee of New England Computer Science Chairs (NECSC) and the Empowering Leadership Alliance ( ELA) invite all undergraduates in colleges or universities in New England to participate in the first New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium which is being organized to celebrate Excellence and Diversity in Undergraduate level Computer Science in New England.

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Date: Saturday 4/18/2009

Venue: Science Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA

Schedule:
  9:00-10:30 registration
10:30-11:00 Keynote speaker: Prof. Roscoe Giles
11:00-12:30 Poster Session I
12:30- 1:30 Lunch
  1:30- 2:30 Poster Session II
  2:30- 3:30 Student Research Presentations
  3:30- 4:00 Closing Remarks

Call for Participation

Please register to attend the symposium at
http://popper.cs-i.brandeis.edu:8090/register.html
Directions to the Wellesley College Science Center are at the bottom of this page

Morning Poster Session: 11:30-12:30

  1. Convex Partitions with 2-Edge Connected Dual Graphs - Marwan Al Jubeh, Tufts University
  2. Designing My First Game - Patrick Antoine, Tufts University
  3. Architectural Design of iSENSE Web Software System - William Brendel, UMass Lowell
  4. Petrified- Design and Development of a Multiplayer Survival/Horror Game - Skyler Clark, Worcester Polytechnical Institute
  5. Scheme-based web applications - Chris Corcoran, UMass Lowell
  6. Learning Programming and Teamwork with Sudoku - Laura Costello, Tufts University
  7. Improving the Privacy Settings Interface of Online Social Networks - Charisse Cotton, Tufts University
  8. Access Control in P2P Networks - Jason Croft, Boston College
  9. Polynomial Time Primality Testing and Sub-exponential Factoring Algorithms - David Emerson, Boston College
  10. WiiPaint: Gesture recognition and interface design in a collaborative art application - Chloe Fan, Wellesley College, (Speaker)
  11. Using the SunSPOT Platform for Wireless Data Collection - John Fertitta, UMass Lowell
  12. iRobot Create API Implemented in Scheme - John Fertitta, UMass Lowell, (Speaker)
  13. Motivating Sustainable Behaviors with an Online Social Visualization - Catherine Grevet, Wellesley College
  14. Using the Nintendo Wii to Assess Motility - Rebecca Groveman, Mount Holyoke College, (Speaker)
  15. Relative Distribution for increasing efficiency of Genetic Algorithm - Surabhi Gupta, Mount Holyoke College
  16. XQuery Optimization - Philip Hanson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  17. Evaluating the role of syntax for novice programmers - Ariel Hathaway, Wellesley College
  18. Image Analysis of Microorganisms: Developing a System for the Identification, Segmentation, and Tracking of Cells and Cell Populations - David House, Boston University
  19. Video-Game Interaction through Vision-Based Input - Shahbano Imran, Boston College, (Speaker)
  20. Implementation, Analysis and Improvement of an Integer Programming Method for the Combinatorial Design of Drug Molecules for Cocktails - Andrea Johnston, Wellesley College

Afternoon Poster Session: 1:30-2:30

  1. Exploring the Exocortex: An Approach to Optimizing Human Productivity - Mike Katsevman, Brandeis University
  2. Calculating Gibbs Free Energies with Subgraph Isomorphism - Sean Kelley, Tufts University
  3. OPENPKMN: Lessons learned from an eight-year software project - Matthew Laquidara, UMass Amherst
  4. Between-Pathway Models - Mark Leiserson, Tufts University, (Speaker)
  5. Phoney Money - Jeffrey Li, bu
  6. Measuring the properties of the post-saccadic visual error calculation - Henry Lo, UMass Boston
  7. A Tetris web application - Katherine Logwood, Mount Holyoke College
  8. Codename: Vargach - A game - John McDowell, UMass Amherst
  9. Optimizing random number sequence utilization in Markov Monte Carlo models - brandeis Michael , Raybman
  10. A Context-sensitive ontology alignment algorithm - Kelly Moran, Tufts University
  11. Genetic Programming in Robot Obstacle Avoidance - Bradford N Barr, Hampshire College
  12. Three types of randomness - Adam Raczkowski, Tufts University
  13. Ecolibrary - Limo Sadalla, Brandeis University
  14. An Evolutionary Simulation of Trends Data - Paul Sawaya, Hampshire College
  15. Graphical Programming and Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles - Sarah Shiplett, Wellesley College
  16. Administrative Role-Based Access Control for Linux - Ayla Solomon, Wellesley College
  17. Analyses of Chemical Spectral Data using Matlab - Megan Strait, Wellesley College
  18. Automusic - Peter Swire, Brandeis University (Speaker)
  19. Efficient Query Relaxation via Translation to Skyline Mapping Functions - Manasi Vartak, Worcester Polytechnical Institute
  20. Who goes first? Finding Fair Rankings of the Points in a Partially Ordered Set - Alicia West, Wellesley College
  21. My own version of Frogger - Zoe Yang, Mount Holyoke College
  22. Re-Connect: Social networking for research opportunities - Donna Yee, Wellesley College

Student Presentations: 2:30-3:30

Proceedings

All abstracts will be collected into a Symposium Proceedings that will be distributed to the attendees as well as to our Corporate Sponsors. A subset of the abstracts will be selected for one of two poster presentations at the Symposium. There will also be a one hour session in which six students will be allowed to give 10 minute presentations of their research. At the end of the symposium, prizes for the best posters in various categories will be awarded.

Awards

Several awards will be offered, including:

Directions to the Wellesley College Science Center

Directions to the Wellesley campus are available at
http://www.wellesley.edu/Admin/travel.html
and a campus map showing the Science Center is available at
http://www.wellesley.edu/CampusMaps
and here is a google map showing the Wellesley Square commuter rail stop next to Wellesley College:
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Acknowledgements

This conference is sponsored by the Empowering Leadership Alliance and we encourage students and faculty to join the ELA. The Wellesley College faculty and staff have also done an amazing job with the local arrangements need to prepare for this first New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium.