IKE'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 - 01:40pm:  Lunch (On Your Own)


01:40 - 03:00pm:  Note: There are a number of sessions (not listed here) that
                  are of significant interest to IKE conference participants
                  (sessions belonging to other joint conferences in this event.)
                  During this period, you are encouraged to participate in
                  sessions belonging to EEE'06, SAM'06, DMIN'06, ICAI'06,
                  SWWS'06, IPCV'06, or BIOCOMP'06.

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK


SESSION 1-IKE:    DATABASES + INFORMATION RETRIEVAL + DISCOVERY METHODS + MANAGEMENT ISSUES
                  Chairs:  Dr. Ping-Tsai Chung
                  Long Island University, New York, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday); 03:20pm - 05:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Graph Processing For Spatial Network Queries
                  Kevin Shaw**, John Sample**, Elias Ioup**,
                  Olivier Mansion***, and Mahdi Abdelguerfi*
                  *University of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
                  **Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, USA
                  ***Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Semantically Cohesive Metadata Fragments To Enhance JBI
                  Information Retrieval
                  Felicia N. Harlow, Michael L. Talbert, and Robert G. Hillman
                  Avionics Circle Wright-Patterson AFB, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  A Conceptual Level Design Methodology for Probabilistic
                  Relational Databases
                  Ping-Tsai Chung
                  Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Database Middleware and Web Services for Data Distribution and
                  Integration in Distributed Heterogeneous Database Systems
                  Han-Chieh Wei and Travis Godfrey
                  University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Flexible Indexing Using Signatures
                  David Holmes
                  Bethesda, MD, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Evaluation of a Benchmark System for Analyzing Collaborative
                  Group Performance as Part of an Educational Online Knowledge
                  Management System
                  Wolfgang Semar
                  Universitat Konstanz, Germany


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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