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Illinois Department of Computer Science Affiliates
Conference 2006
Wednesday, April 26
| 3:00 -
5:00 |
<strong>Open Session on
University Relations and Recruiting</strong> in 2405 SC<br/>
Facilitated by Engineering Career Services, the ACM and other student
organizations. |
| 5:30 - 8:00 |
<strong>Reverse Job Fair & Opening Reception</strong> on
2nd,3rd,4th Floors SC<br/>
Posters, Demos, and Exhibits of faculty, graduate and undergraduate research projects in a casual environment with music, food, and beverages.
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Thursday, April 27
| 7:30 - 8:45 |
<strong>Breakfast Service</strong> <br/>
Continental breakfast and coffee at Siebel Center's Bevande Cafe
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| 9:00 - 10:30 |
<strong>Web Services: Hype and Reality: What Developers Need
to Know to be Successful</strong> in 2405 SC<br/>
Web services are the current hot topic in commercial
software. Software vendors are touting their programming
environments as the best way to develop web services. But
does this technology make a difference? What is important in
using web services successfully? Developers of successful
web services systems will share their experiences.<br/><br/>
Moderator: <a
href="/directory/directory.php?name=johnson">Professor Ralph Johnson</a><br/>
Panelists:
<ul>
<li>Jeffrey Bar, Web Services Evangelist - Amazon.com</li>
<li>Alan Warren, Director of Engineering - Google</li>
<li>Carl Gunter, Director Illinois Security Lab - UIUC</li>
<li>Bill Beshilas, Senior Planning Consultant - Allstate</li>
</ul>
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
<strong>The Future of Multicore Programming:Next Generation
of Programmers and Programming Tools</strong> in 2405 SC<br/>
Multicore and other parallel processor designs have
increased demand for parallel computing. The paucity of
established programming models, tools, and trained
programmers for these machines makes education and research
in parallelism timely, necessary, and exciting. This panel
will discuss how to meet the demand for tools, talent, and
techniques advancing research and stimulating education. <br/><br/>
Moderator: <a
href="/directory/directory.php?name=harrison"> Professor
Luddy Harrison</a><br/>
Panelists:
<ul>
<li>Eric Kronstadt Director, Deep Computing Systems - IBM</li>
<li>David Sehr, Senior Principal Engineer - Intel</li>
<li>John Nickolls, Director of Architecture - Nvidia</li>
<li>David Callahan, Technical Fellow - Microsoft</li>
</ul>
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| 12:45 - 1:45 |
Lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:30 |
<strong>The Untethered Medium: Design Challenges in
Advancing Mobile Interactivity</strong> in 2405 SC<br/>
To advance current mobile interactions, communication devices must expand in multiple dimensions, enabling seamless communication and overcoming limitations currently imposed by human factors issues. This panel will address how industry and academia can best converge toward this end and what skills will be demanded of future mobile communications workers.<br/><br/>
Moderator: <a
href="/directory/directory.php?name=campbell">Professor Roy
Campbell</a><br/>
Panelists:
<ul>
<li>Kelly Spencer, Director of Systems - State Farm</li>
<li>Mark Randolph, Director Mobile Platforms and Services
Laboratory - Motorola</li>
<li>Luddy Harrison, Professor of Computer Science - UIUC</li>
<li>Scott Counts, Research Scientist - Microsoft Research</li>
</ul>
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| 4:00 - 5:30 |
<strong>Advancing Industrial Innovation via Academic Alliance</strong> in 1404 SC<br/>
Keynote by Dan Ling, Director of Microsoft Research
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| 5:30 - 6:30 |
<strong>Reception</strong><br/>
Industrial Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards
Reception
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| 6:30 - 7:30 |
<strong>Birds of a Feather Dinner Parties</strong>
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| 7:30 - 9:00 |
<strong>Women in Computer Science Awards Banquet</strong>
in 2405 SC<br/>
Keynote Speaker Pat House, co-founder Siebel Systems
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Friday April 28
| 7:30 - 8:15 |
<strong>Breakfast Service</strong> <br/>
Continental breakfast and coffee at Siebel Center's Bevande Cafe
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| 8:30 - 10:00 |
<strong>Personal Digital Content Creation: The Next Wave of Killer
Apps</strong> in 2405 SC<br/>
Currently requiring artistic expertise on the part of users,
applications in digital content creation (DCC) must find a
way to overcome the skill barrier for widespread
success. This panel overviews recent advances and ideas
promising to ensure that personally generated
computer-assisted media doesn't degenerate into a new
generation of boring home movies.<br/><br/>
Moderator: <a
href="/directory/directory.php?name=hart"> Professor John
Hart</a><br/>
Panelists:
<ul>
<li>Peter Lowe, Senior Director, Consumer Applications - Apple</li>
<li>Roger Germundsson, Director of R&D - Wolfram Research</li>
<li>Michael Cohen, Research Scientist - Microsoft Research</li>
<li>Kelly Snapka, Art Director - Volition</li>
</ul>
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 |
<strong>It's Not Too Much To Ask: Ensuring software
reliability through Formal Methods</strong> in 2405 SC<br/>
Researchers are making excellent progress on formal and
automated ways to assure the correctness of complex systems.
New tools address scalability and deployment with automated
analyses demonstrated to be effective across millions of
lines of code, and fully verify practical high-level
specification models. This panel explores emerging
techniques to improve software reliability.<br/><br/>
Moderator: <a href="/directory/directory.php?name=meseguer">Professor Jose Meseguer</a><br/>
Panelists:
<ul>
<li>Byron Cook, Senior Researcher - Microsoft </li>
<li>Ben Watson, Research Program Manager - Lockheed Martin</li>
<li>Grigore Rosu, Professor of Computer Science - UIUC</li>
<li>Dan Morris, Manager and Practice Director Healthcare and
BPM Consulting - InfoSys</li>
</ul>
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| Afternoon |
<strong>Optional Work Group or Working Sessions for interested research groups</strong> |
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