FEC'06: June 26, 2006 Schedule

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

08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
                  $100 Laptop
                  Prof. Barry Vercoe
                  Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
                  Dr. Chris Rowen
                  President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am:  Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
                  Dr. John R. Boisseau
                  Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
                  The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p:  Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
                  Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
                  *Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
                  **Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:20pm:  Lunch (On Your Own)


SESSION 1-FECS:   MOTIVATION TECHNIQUES + RESEARCH ISSUES
                  Chair:  TBA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday);  01:20pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Conference Room C)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Computer Games Development Courses: A Means of Attracting
                  Students into Computing
                  Andrew Ware
                  University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, UK

01:40 - 02:00pm:  On Summer Schools, Building Student Teams and Linking
                  Undergraduate Education to Research
                  K. A. Hawick, H. A. James, C. J. James and C. L. James
                  Massey University, Albany, New Zealand

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Improving Student Motivation in a Computing Course for
                  Non-Majors
                  Stan Kurkovsky
                  Central Connecticut State University, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  A Student Research Symposium at Texas Christian University -
                  How it has Benefited the Computer Science Department
                  James Comer*, Tom Nute*, Billy Farmer*, Robert Roggio**
                  *Texas Christian University, USA
                  **University of North Florida, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Infusing Parts-Whole Relationship Critical Thinking Skill
                  into Basic Computer Science Education
                  Muhammad Shafique and M. R. K. Krishna Rao
                  King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK


SESSION 2-FECS:   TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND EVALUATION
                  Chair:  Dr. Victor A. Clincy, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday);  03:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Conference Room C)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  M-Commerce, Emergent Platform For Training and Educating
                  Victor Clincy and Garima Sogarwal

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Computer Aided Grading with Agar
                  Titus Winters and Tom Payne

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Evolving Mathematical Functions with Genetic Algorithms - A
                  Team Project on Artificial Intelligence
                  Zhiguang Xu, Chris Neasbitt, Jared Summers, and Bill Conkling

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Visual Objects Based Introduction to Programming Concepts
                  in the Context of Engineering Education
                  Roman Tankelevich and Graeme Fairweathe

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Lessons Learned From Different Types of Projects in
                  Software Engineering
                  Jennifer Polack

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Global Opportunities for Service Learning in Computer Science
                  Michael Losavio and David King

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Cyberlaw in the Computer-Science Curriculum
                  Gene Bailey and Ruth Knight Bailey
                  East Tennessee State University, Tennessee, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  A Hierarchy Model of Assessment for Curriculum Improvement
                  Roberta Marsha Klibaner, Zhanyang Zhang, and Emile Chungtien Chi


06:00 - 9:00pm:   TWO TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
                  Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
                  Dr. H. Keith Edwards
                  University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
                  An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
                  Dr. M. Deriche
                  KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)


09:00 - 11:00pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

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