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Contents 1 Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2 Thursday, October 1, 2009 3 Friday, October 2, 2009 4 Saturday, October 3, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

9:00 am -9:30 am

• Welcome: Tracy Camp, GHC Program Chair

9:30 am — 10:30 am

• PhD Forum 1
  • Improving the User Experience of Information Technologies In Residential Settings
  • Secure Distributed Computation and Communication
  • Automatic Generation of Parallel Programs with Dynamic Scheduling on a Network-on-Chip
  • Discovery, Generation and Analysis of Network Policy Configurations

• PhD Forum 2
  • Warehousing Markovian Streams
  • Classroom Resources and Impact on Learning
  • Augmenting Autobiographical Memory

• New Investigators 1 – Smart Systems
  • A Path Based System for Guidance in Pervasive Environment NN
  • Robust Iris Recognition using Texture and Phase Features NN
  • Retrieving Cognitive Chunks from Graphical Tablet Drawing NN
  • Autonomic Power and Performance Management for Large-scale Data Centers NN

• New Investigators 2 – Privacy and Social Software
  • Tugging at the Seams: Understanding the Fabric of Social Sites
  • The Knot or The Noose? Analysis of Privacy on a Wedding Planning Web site
  • Enterprise Social Networking: History, Current Practices, and Research Challenges

11:00 am — 12:00 pm

• PhD Forum 3
  • Providing Gbps/User Connectivity in WLANs NN
  • Towards the Semi-automated Building of Knowledge Bases for Biological Research
  • Dynamic Clustering and Visualization using Swarm Intelligence NN

• PhD Forum 4
  • An n-gram Based Approach to the Classification of Web Pages by Genre
  • Ant Colony Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
  • Using Layout Information to Enhance Security on the Web

• New Investigators 3 – Network & Program Monitoring
  • Information Checking Protocols NN
  • DPI based Forensic Analysis of Network Traffic using Grid Infrastructure NN
  • Combining Monitors through Assume Guarantee Reasoning NN

1:00 pm — 2:00 pm

• CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops Session #1
  • For Undergraduate Student: CSE is for You: Innovation, Flexibility and Exciting Opportunities.
  • For Graduate Students: Graduate School Survival Skills. NN
  • For Early Career Researchers: Growing Your Research Program.

2:30 pm — 3:30 pm

• CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops #2
  • For Undergraduates: The Road to Graduate School.
  • For Graduate Students: Networking and Professional Development. NN
  • For Early Career Researchers: Work/Life Balance. NN

4:00 pm — 5:00 pm

• CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops #3
  • For Undergraduate Students: The Graduate School Experience. NN
  • For Graduate Students: Publishing Your Research.
  • For Early Career Researchers: Preparing for Promotion. NN

2:15 pm — 5:00 pm

• Jo Miller Sessions
  • Workshop - A Person of Influence.
  • Panel - A Person of Influence - In Real Life.

5:30 pm — 7:00 pm

• For the Newcomer

7:00 pm — 9:00 pm

• SRC Poster Competition and General Poster Session: Graduate Entries (In alphabetical order by title):
  • Computer Aided Insights Into the Biomechanics of Dinosaurs NN
  • Dynamic NBTI Management in Multicore Processor NN
  • Eat All You Can in an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet: A Case for Aggressive Resource Usage NN
  • Handover Optimization in Fourth-Generation Heterogeneous Wireless Networks NN
  • How Well Can Anonymous Networks Protect Your Privacy? An Exploration on the Quality of Internet Anonymity Services NN
  • Observation-Based Cooperation in Multi-Robot Systems NN
  • Partitioned Scheduling with Fewer Processors NN
  • PhishZoo: An Automated Web Phishing Detection Approach Based on Profiling and Fuzzy Matching NN
  • Real-time human-guided evolutionary optimization for material design
  • Semantic Clipboard: Providing Policy Assurance When Reusing Content on the Web NN
  • Software Transactional Distributed Shared Memory NN
  • Towards Synthetic Firewall Policy Generation for Configuration Analysis and Testing NN

• SRC Poster Competition and General Poster Session: Under-Graduate Entries (In alphabetical order by title):
  • Conceptual Modeling for Real-time Data Warehouses NN
  • Presenting Clinical Survival Probability Charts on Mobile Devices NN
  • Recommendation-based Query Relaxation via Space Partitioning and Mapping Functions NN
  • Towards Emotionally Intelligent Machines: A Comprehensive Mood Classification System NN

Thursday, October 1, 2009

8:30 am -9:45 am

• Welcome: Heidi Kvinge, General Chair, Telle Whitney, President, Anita Borg Institute
• Keynote Speaker: Megan Smith, Google

10:00 am — 11:00 am

• Session One
  • Invited Technical Speaker Josephine Cheng: Building a Smarter Planet
  • Academic Track Best Practices for Introductory Computer Science NN
  • Industry Track Communicating Powerfully Across Gender NN
  • Technical Track
  • Theme Track Developing Sustainable Technologies for an Improved Future
  • Student Track A Wide Career Lens – Recognizing the Options
  • MAGICal_Learnings_from_1-1_Mentoring_of_Middle_School_Girls
  • Robotics Workshop Session 1:Engineering Self-Organizing Systems NN
  • Special Invited Speaker Greg Papadopoulos: Citizen Engineer - Become One NN

11:15 am — 12:15 pm

• Session Two
  • Invited Technical Speaker Jen Mankoff: Lessons Learned in the Course of Addressing Real World Problems Through Research
  • The Value of Awards and How to Get Them NN
  • Industry Track: The Imposter Panel
  • Opportunities and Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research NN
  • Women and the Flat Connected World
  • Landing a Job and Succeeding in Industry: Bridging the gap between in-class learning and job-related skill NN
  • Women of Color: Identify and Discussing the Unique Issues NN
  • Living Better with Robots NN

1:45 pm — 3:00 pm

• Technical Executive Plenary Panel: What You Need to Know on the Road to Becoming a Technology Executive

3:15 pm — 4:15 pm

• Session Three
  • Invited Technical Speaker Martha Pollack: Assistive Technology for People with Cognitive Impairment: The Present and the Future NN
  • Time is on My Side: Practical Tools for Managing Your Time
  • How we did it: Breaking through the Glass Ceiling
  • Open Source Community Development
  • Three Key Areas for Gender and IT Reform: Uncovering Bias in Recommendation Letters, Patenting & Technical Innovation Processes, and Broadening Organizational Cultures NN
  • Have You Considered Becoming an Entrepreneur?
  • SRC Competition (Second Round) NN
  • Panel on Career Paths in Robotics NN

4:30 pm — 5:30 pm

• Session 4 - Birds of a Feather Sessions/SRC/Robotics
  • Women In the Defense Industry NN
  • Inspiring Girls in Technology: Making Every Outreach a Success NN
  • Support Groups for Women in STEM: International Perspectives
  • Imagining Together: Using Technology and Extreme Ideas to Solve the Toughest Problems of the World
  • Baby Loading, Please Wait: Pregnancy, Graduate School, & Computing
  • Breaking Free: Creating and Innovating Like No One Else NN
  • SRC Competition (Second Round) NN
  • Challenges and Results of Multi-Robot and Multi-Human Systems NN

Friday, October 2, 2009

8:30 am -9:45 am

• Welcome: Tracy Camp, Program Chair
• Keynote Speaker: Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

10:00am – 11:00 am

• Session Five
  • Invited Technical Speaker Chat Garcia Ramilo: TakeBacktheTech: Reclaiming Technology to End Violence Against Women NN
  • Becoming an Academic Leader NN
  • Technical Mentorship and Sponsorship: Why You Need It and How to Find It
  • From Spec. to Silicon: Successful Validation of a Server-class SoC Microprocessor And Performance Benchmarking through the Lifecycle of Chip Development NN
  • The “F word”: The Uneasy Relationship Between Feminism and Technology
  • Women Researching Women: Gateways to Technology-enabled Socio-economic Development NN
  • Change Agent Awards Panel – sponsored by Google

11:15am – 12:15pm

• Session Six
  • Invited Technical Speaker Brenda Laurel: Tools for Change: Human-Centered Design Research
  • Mentoring: Difficult and Sensitive Issues NN
  • The Software Soul: Maximizing Profitability by Unleashing the Spirit of Software Teams NN
  • The Automated Braille Writing Tutor: Using Computing Technology to Enhance Braille Education for the Visually-Impaired in Developing Communities AND Kidney Heroes: Improving Health Management through Video Games NN
  • ICT for Emerging Economies - Why do we bother? AND Saving Lives using ICTs: Delivering Affordable, Quality Healthcare in Developing Countries NN
  • Computational Geometry Collaborative Learning with Origami – A Computer Science Circle NN
  • Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award Winner – sponsored by Microsoft

1:45pm – 2:45pm

• Session Seven
  • Invited Technical Speaker Susan Landau: Bits and Bites: Explaining Communications Security (and Insecurity) in Washington and Brussels
  • Solving the Two Body Problem NN
  • Is Your Future in the Individual Contributor or Manager Track?
  • On the Evolution of Large Scale Distributed Systems AND High Throughput Computing on the Open Science Grid (OSG) Infrastructure
  • Multi-level International Programs Working to Change Perceptions About IT Courses and Careers AND Panel: Selected Outreach Activities in British Columbia NN
  • The Best Way: Research by Undergraduates NN
  • The Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award Winner

3:00pm – 4:00pm

• Session Eight
  • Invited Technical Speaker M. Bernardine Dias: TechBridgeWorld and Computing Technology for Developing Communities
  • Recruitment and Retention at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
  • The Economy and the Future of Computing NN
  • A Walk in the Clouds - Industry Leaders Talk About Cloud Computing and What It Means to Them
  • Networking Women in Computing in a Global Context
  • Mastering the Art of the Technical Interview: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Anita Borg Social Impact Award Winner – sponsored by Microsoft NN

4:15pm – 5:15pm

• Session Nine
  • Invited Technical Speaker Window Snyder NN
  • Computational Biology Trends and Careers
  • The Fight or Flight Moment: Understanding Why We Leave or Stay in Industry
  • OpenStreetMap: The Wiki Map of the World NN
  • Empowering Immigrant Communities Through Technology NN
  • Girls, Computer Science, and Games AND From Computer Games to a Career in IT

5:30pm – 6:30pm

• Session 10: Birds of a Feather Sessions
  • Tips, Tricks and Software for Keeping Research Organized
  • Service Learning for Local and Global Social Change NN
  • Speed Mentoring for Latinas in Computing NN
  • Female IT and Health Professionals - Linked for Social Good NN
  • Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges Faced by Women in Computing
  • The Introverted Volunteer: Yes, You Can! NN
  • NonTrads: Women Following a non-Traditional Path in Pursuit of a Technical Degree and Career

2:00pm – 4:00pm

• Ignite Talks
  • A New Image of Computing
  • Changing the Future – One Girl at a Time
  • Coding for Charity: How to run a Give Camp
  • Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Introductory CS
  • FemProf –Advancing Undergraduate Female Students to a Professoriate Career: A Case Study
  • Playing with Alice After School
  • Powering Online Social Movements
  • The Real Projects for Real Clients (RPRCC) Initiative: An ACM-W Project Aimed at Recruiting Young Women Into, And Retaining Them in, Computing Majors

Saturday, October 3, 2009

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

• • Town Hall Meeting. Feedback and Discussion of GHC2010 with Program Co-Chairs. All are invited to participate.