3:00-4:00

Registration (Main lobby) and Snacks (Lower lobby)

4:00-4:15

Welcoming remarks (Shawnee/Miami room)

4:15-5:15

Invited Speaker (Shawnee/Miami room)

· Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines

5:15-5:30

Sponsor talk

· Deanna Kosaraju (Anita Borg Institute)   – Networking...Now!

5:45-6:15

Lightning Talks (Shawnee/Miami room)

Moderator: Gwenn Volkert, Kent State University

· Jennifer Marsman (Microsoft Corporation)
   – Cool Work from Microsoft

· Carol McKee (Information Control Corporation)
   – Transitioning from College to Career

· Marta Smith (Franklin University)
   – My Journey to a Career in Computing…Has Just Begun

6:30-7:30

Dinner and Featured Speakers

· Valerie Cross, Miami University

· Mary Bradford, GE

7:45-9:00

Panel Sessions

-  Career Panel (Shawnee room)

Moderator: Jodi Tims, Baldwin-Wallace College

o  Ashley Kline (HMB, Inc.)

o  Wilmari Benitez (GE )

o  Jennifer Marsman (Microsoft)

o  Jaina Sangtani (Manor Care)

o  Lauren Ward (GE)

o  Shannon Whalen(Commercial Timesharing, Inc.)

-   Graduate School Panel (Miami room)

Moderator: Valerie Cross, Miami University

o  Bettina Bair (Ohio State University)

o  Graciela Perera (Youngstown State University)

o  Shannon Steinfadt (Kent State University)

o  Anu Rekha Chennai Thiagaragjan(Miami University)

9:00-10:00

Research Posters (Wyandotte room)

· Najla Alam (Kent State Universiy)
   – EMULI – Model Driven Sensor Stimuli for Experimentation

· Jasmine Berry (Kent State University)
   – Car Detailing Web Site

· Elizabeth Bikun (Miami University)
   – Comparison of Various Hash Functions

· Melodie Campana (Youngstown State University)
   – Systems Data Sync Project

· Priyanka Chandrasekaran (Miami University)
   – Higher Order Ionosphere Error Mitigation for Precision GPS Applications

· Lifang Fan (Miami University)
   – Improve Gapped Alignment in Blast

· Alina Lazar (Youngstown State University)
   – Modeling Forest Dynamics Using Field Data from Zoar Valley, Western New York

· Hui Li (Miami University)
   – Connected Components Labeling Algorithm

· Jing Li (Ohio State University)
   – Wireless Elevator Localization in OSUPeople-Net

· Marina Orekov (Miami University)
   – Information Retrieval on Software Repositories

· Janice Pratt (Hiram College)
   – Semantic Databases vs. Relational Databases: A Comparison

· Lauren Sapharas (Ohio State University)
   – Games 4 Girls Competition Experiences

· Shannon Steinfadt (Kent State University)
   – GATOR and SWAMP: GPU Computing for Sequence Alignment

· Xinran Yu (Miami University)
   – A Research DNA Alignment Algorithm

· Yuan Zhang (Miami University)
    – Grid Service Discovery

10:00-12:00

Breakout Sessions & Social Activities

· ALICE frenzy (Miami room)

· Resume reviews (Shawnee room)

· Games and relaxation (Main lobby)

· Swimming (until 11:00pm)

8:00-8:45

Breakfast

8:45-9:30

Technical Papers (Shawnee/Miami room)

Moderator: Bettina Bair, Ohio State University

· Ilana Heintz (Ohio State University)
   – Addressing Issues in Morphology and Language Modeling for Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition

· Kathy Liszka (University of Akron)
   – Teaching Hands-On Cryptology and Steganography

· Ngozi Uti (University of Cincinnati)
   – Efficient Parallel Algorithm for the Mean Shift Clustering Technique

9:45-11:00

Keynote speaker (Shawnee/Miami room)

· Patty Morrison

11:00-11:30

Break – Sponsor Expo (Wyandotte room)

11:45-12:30

Technical Papers (Shawnee/Miami room)

Moderator: Angela Guercio, Kent State University

· Valerie Cross (Miami University) - Ontological Similarity and its Role in Bioinformatics

· Vasudha Gupta (Ohio State University)
   – Architecture for Configuration of Intelligent Systems

· Farha Mukri (Ohio State University)
   – Strategic Plan for Business IT Alignment

· Anu Rekha Chennai Thiagarajan (Miami University)
   – Discovering Verb Associations using Biomedical Literature and Vocabularies

12:45-2:00

Lunch and Wrap-up