FECS'11: July 18, 2011 Schedule

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


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'11 Opening Remarks - July 18, Monday:
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (Chair, Steering Committee & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: The Monte Carlo Theater)

08:50 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1 - July 18, Monday:
                  How Engineering Mathematics Can Improve Software
                  Prof. David Lorge Parnas, Ph.D.
                  Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Louvain, Lugano
                  Middle Road Software, Inc.; Professor Emeritus, McMaster University,
                  Canada and University of Limerick, Ireland;
                  Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; MRIA.
                  (LOCATION: The Monte Carlo Theater)

09:50 - 10:45am:  Keynote Lecture 2 - July 18, Monday:
                  The Nature of Cyber Security
                  Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
                  Executive Director, CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in
                  Information Assurance and Security);
                  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA;
                  Fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAS.
                  (LOCATION: The Monte Carlo Theater)

10:50 - 11:45am:  Keynote Lecture 3 - July 18, Monday:
                  Changing Lives Around the World: the Power of Technology
                  Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
                  World Economic Forum's Young Global Leader for 2011;
                  Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.
                  (LOCATION: The Monte Carlo Theater)

11:45a - 12:00p:  European Research Council - Financing Frontier Research in Computer
                  Science
                  Dr. Yiannis Sagias
                  Project adviser, European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA)
                  Date and Time: July 18 (Monday), 2011; 11:45am - 12:00pm
                  (LOCATION: The Monte Carlo Theater)

12:00 - 01:00pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 1-FECS:   PROJECTS + SOFTWARE ENGINEERING + PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ISSUES
                  Co-Chairs: Dr. Anton Riedl, Christopher Newport University, USA
                  July 18, 2011 (Monday); 01:00pm - 03:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 7)

01:00 - 01:20pm:  Mobile Robotics as a Platform for Capstone Projects
                  Costa Gerousis, Anton Riedl, Dali Wang
                  Christopher Newport University, Virginia, USA

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Third-Year Parallel Programming for CS Undergraduates
                  William B. Gardner
                  School of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Canada

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Incorporating Emerging Technologies and Lifelong Learning into
                  Capstone Projects
                  L. Donnell Payne
                  Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Transforming Undergraduate Computer Science into Software Engineering
                  Kevin Daimi and Katy Snyder
                  University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  LED: A Formal Language for Defining Computable Functions
                  J. Nelson Rushton and Jarred Blount
                  Texas Tech University, Texas, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  OSSIE: An Open Source Software Defined Radio Platform for Education
                  and Research
                  Jason Snyder, Brittany McNair, Stephen Edwards, Carl Dietrich
                  Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm:  Preparing Software Engineering Graduates For IT 2.0 Era
                  Jie Liu and Feng Liu
                  Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon, USA;
                  Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, P. R. China

03:20 - 03:40pm:  BREAK


03:40 - 05:00pm:  During this period, FECS attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to SERP'11, EEE'11, MSV'11, CGVR'11,
                  ICOMP'11, or SWWS'11. These sessions discuss topics that
                  significantly overlap the scope of FECS'11.


05:00 - 05:45pm:  DISCUSSION/POSTER SESSION A-FECS
                  July 18, 2011 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways of Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. GIS Laboratory: New Trends in Research and Education in Environmental
                     Science Based on Advanced Computing Tools
                     Lubos Matejicek
                     Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
                  O. A Model of Interdisciplinary Curricular Collaboration: Inquiry Based
                     Real-World Case Studies for Introductory Bioinformatics and Computer
                     Science Courses
                     V. Kolchenko, T. Malyuta, and R. Guidone
                     New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, New York, USA
                  O. Learning Objects and Ontologies to Perform Educational Data Mining
                     Felix Castro and Ma. Angeles Alonso
                     Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo Hidalgo, Mexico
                  O. Saving Computer Science: Why, Where, and How
                     Scott A. Burgess
                     Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA
                  O. Evaluation on Teaching Embedded System with Portable Labs in a Box
                     Kai Qian, Xiaolin Hu, and Liang Hong
                     Southern Polytechnic State University, USA;
                     Georgia State University, USA; Tennessee State University, USA
                  O. Random Number Sequences Displayed in Two Dimensions
                     Jack Ryder
                     Kean University, New Jersey, USA


06:00 - 09:00pm:  TUTORIALS


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER / SOCIAL
                  July 18 - Monday; 09:10 - 11:30pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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