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Contents 1 Co-Locating with Richard Tapia 2 Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3 Thursday, October 18, 2007 4 Friday, October 19, 2007 5 Saturday, October 20, 2007

Co-Locating with Richard Tapia

• Blog posts on Tapia and/or Bridge Day

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

• Poster Session

Thursday, October 18, 2007

• Session 1
  • Invited Technical Talk: Network-driven chips
  • Invited Technical Talk: Inventing the Future of Computer Architecture
  • REUs: Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students
  • Split Session: Interplay of Life & Work
    • Advancing Your Career, Advancing Your Life
    • I Can Fly: How to Invent the Future without Fear
  • Women Powering the Next Wave of the Web
  • Joining the Game: Bringing Women into the World of Games
  • Career Choices: Evaluating Technology Career Opportunities Among Diverse Business Sectors

• Session 2
  • Entrepreneur Panel: Live your Ideas, Making an Impact as an Entrepreneur
  • Promising Practices in CS1
  • The Road to Executive Leadership
  • Shop and Talk: Supporting Women’s Nurturing and Providing Roles through Mobile Technology
  • An Introduction to Intrusion Detection
  • Invited CTO Panel
  • Now You’re an Associate Professor - What’s Next?

• Session 3
  • Invited Technical Talk: VINI: Virtual Network Infrastructure
  • Retaining Women CS Majors Using Research-Based Initiatives
  • Managing your career 2-5 years out of school
  • Technological Solutions for Environmental and Societal Issues
  • Using technology to empower women in the developing world
  • 20 Years of Empowering Women in Computing: Systers Past, Present, and Future
  • We Invent the Future of Interdisciplinary Research

• Session 4
  • Numenta Technology Discussion
  • Girl Geeks in High School – Technical Experiences of Future Inventors
  • Real Teamwork in the Virtual World
  • Transactional memory: Taming concurrent programming in the coming era of many-core computing
  • Inventing the Future Through the Art of Mentorship: Insights Into the Mentor/Mentee Relationship
  • Traditional and Creative Funding Models for Outreach Programs
  • ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)

• Session 5
  • Invited Technical Talk: Next Generation Supercomputers
  • Where Have All the Women Gone?
  • Computer Science Recruitment for the 21st Century
  • Exploring Careers in Technology
  • Working with a Virtual Team in a Global Company
  • Challenges faced when forming a new “Women in Computing” group
  • Persuing Grad School and Computer Science Research Career
  • Developing Student Leaders to Invent the Future

• Session 6
  • Mentoring Makes MAGIC for Middle and High School Girls
  • Where Have All the Women Gone?
  • Computer Science Recruitment for the 21st Century
  • Exploring Careers in Technology
  • Working with a Virtual Team in a Global Company
  • Challenges faced when forming a new “Women in Computing” group
  • Survival Skills for the Graduate Student

Friday, October 19, 2007

• Plenary Session
  • Welcome (Friday)
  • Keynote Speech by Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College

• Session 1
  • PhD Forum: HCI Applications
    • Natural Language Interfaces for Environment Control
    • Supporting Data-Based Decision-Making for Caregivers through Embedded Capture and Access
  • PhD Forum: Algorithms
    • Automatic Bayesian Learning Methods
    • Mining Regional Knowledge in Spatial Datasets
    • Slicing the Three-layer Architecture: A Semantic Foundation for Behavioural Specification
  • New Investigators: Simulation and Performance Evaluation
    • A simulation system for ad hoc query-ready sensors
    • Performance Evaluation of ALLIANCES
  • New Investigators: Artificial Intelligence
    • Simplifying Sketch Recognition UI Development
    • Efficient Plan Recognition for Dynamic Multi-agent Teams
  • New Investigators: Computing and Biological Applications
    • CIinBios: An Ontology-based System for Competitive Intelligence in Bioscience
    • Jointly Learning Biological Interactions from Multiple Data Sources: Application to Pharmacogenomics
  • Making the Future Web Accessible to People with Disabilities

• Session 2
  • PhDeForum: HCI Applications
    • A Unified Approach to Computing and Visualizing Uncertainty in the Operating Room
    • Information Visualization in Co-located Collaborative Environments
    • Robust and Scalable Peer-To-Peer Video Distribution
  • PhD Forum: Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Computing
    • Massively Parallel Sequence Alignment for the Bioinformatics Domain
    • On Node Isolation in a Directional Wireless Sensor Network
  • New Investigators: Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
    • Maximizing the Extent of Spread in a Dynamic Network
  • New Investigators: Mathematical Programming
    • On the Upper Bound of Sensor Network Lifetime – A Flow Optimization Approach
    • A New Application of Linear Algebra in Latent Semantic Indexing
  • New Investigators: Theory & Systems
    • Sherlock: Tracking Down Propagating Problems in Distributed Systems
    • It’s Not Magic: I Can Prove It
  • Helping Businesses Invent the Future: Improving Engagement among Women in High Tech

• Industry Partner Lunch with Nilofer Merchant

Making the Most of Your Seat at the Table

• Session 3
  • The 2007 Anita Borg Award for Social Impact Winner
  • Broadening the Field of Computing Through a Design-Based HCI Curriculum
  • Learning by Doing: Using Internships to Discover Where You Belong
  • Split session: At the Internet’s edge
    • RFID: IP Network Applications and Societal Implications
    • Wireless Security Best Practice Guidelines
  • Latinas Opening Doors to the Future: Advancing Latinas in Computing
  • Invited Technical Talk: Neurons to Silicon: Implantable Processor Design

• Session 4
  • Invited Technical Talk: Neurons to Silicon: Implantable Processor Design
  • Invited Change Agents Panel
  • Technical to Management: Expect the Unexpected - A Synopsis of Two Women’s First Year Experiences
  • Split session: Scaling up
    • Finding Semantically Similar Objects
    • Paradigm shifts, new technology requirements, and a solution path: the future of computing
  • Unique Needs: Producing a long-lasting outreach program
  • The 2007 Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership Winner

• Session 5
  • Invited Technical Talk: Building Embedded Adaptive Systems
  • Storytelling as Role Modeling: Collecting Oral Histories
  • Innovation Inside Corporations
  • Outstanding Women in Computer Security: A Panel
  • Workplace Mentoring
  • Disney Speaker

• Session 6
  • Confidential Advice Session for Junior Faculty
  • Latinas in Computing
  • Getting hired: how to get the most out of your internships
  • Modern day security
  • What to Look for in a Job Offer
  • Building Sustainable Corporate Networks for Technical Women

• Sponsor Night
  • Cisco web cam drivers

Saturday, October 20, 2007

• Welcome
• Entrepreneurship: The Fundamentals (and Fun) of Idea Generation
• Innovation Strategies: Finding the Big Idea
• Intrapreneurship
• Funding for Tech Women