FECS'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'08 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 12:40pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


12:40 - 01:20pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-FECS (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 14 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. Lessons Learned from the First-Time ABET Accreditation Process
                     at a Small HBCU
                     Giti Javidi, Dawit Haile, and Huiqing H. Yang
                     Virginia State University, USA
                  O. Monitoring Students' Progress in Software Engineering Courses
                     Hassan Pournaghshband and Shahriar Movafaghi
                     Southern Polytechnic State University, USA
                     Southern New Hampshire University, USA
                  O. Embedded Assessment of Microcomputer Fundamentals for Embedded
                     Systems Education
                     William A. Stapleton
                     Texas State University - San Marcos, USA
                  O. Preparing Graduates for Industry
                     Manoj Manuja and Anuradha Verma
                     Infosys Technologies Ltd., India
                  O. Teaching an Introductory Programming Course in a Virtual World
                     John Sigle
                     Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA


SESSION 1-FECS:   ACCREDITATION (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 01:20pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Accreditation of a CS Program Under Emerging Criteria
                  Laxmi P. Gewali and John T. Minor
                  University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  CS1 for an Early College Program
                  Chaya Gurwitz and Theodore Raphan
                  Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, New York, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Will There Ever be Consensus on CS1?
                  Robert M. Siegfried, David Chays and Katherine G. Herbert
                  Adelphi University, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Predicting Proficiency of Computer Literacy Based on
                  Student's Characteristics
                  Soojung Lee
                  Gyeongin National University of Education, Kyunggi-do, Korea

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Making a Case for Scripting Languages in CS 1
                  Augustine Ikeji
                  Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK

03:20 - 04:40pm:  During this period, FECS'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to SERP'08, MSV'08, CGVR'08, ICOMP'08,
                  SWWS'08, SAM'08, EEE'08, or FCS'08.  These sessions discuss topics
                  that overlap the scope of FECS'08.


SESSION 2-FECS:   EDUCATION AND THE WEB
                  Chair: Dr. Shahriar Movafaghi, Southern New Hampshire University, USA
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 04:40pm - 05:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Personalized Web Search Based on the Understanding Level of a User
                  Soojung Lee
                  Gyeongin National University of Education, Kyunggi-do, Korea

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Use of Online Learning and new Evaluation Techniques for the
                  Reduction of Specific Conceptual Shortcomings in Basic
                  Disciplines, for Students of Engineering Courses, Using Moodle
                  Paulo A. Garcia, Jose Sidnei C. Martini, Marcos Stefanelli Vieira,
                  and Gilberto Teixeira da Silva
                  Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil


SESSION 3-FECS:   TOOLS AND EMULATORS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 05:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Computers and Physical Construction: Blending Fabrication into
                  Computer Science Education
                  Michael Eisenberg, Ann Eisenberg, Leah Buechley, and Nwanua Elumeze
                  University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Dirac Delta in MATLAB
                  M. Legua, I. Morales, and L. M. Sanchez Ruiz
                  ETSIA - Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
                  CPS - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain


06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)

09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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