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CMC 3 President's Award Recipients (selected by the CMC 3 President) 2002 Barry Wood Santa Rosa Junior College 2003 Chris Barker De Anza College 2004 Noelle Eckley Lassen College 2005 Barbara Illowsky Zwi Reznik De Anza College Fresno City College 2006 Sandi Nieto Santa Rosa Junior College 2007 Randy Taylor Las Positas College 2008 2009 2010 Mark Harbison Jim Spencer Robert Knight Sacramento City College Santa Rosa Junior College Evergreen Valley College 2011 Larry Green Lake Tahoe Community College CMC 3 Distinguished Service Award Recipients (selected by the CMC 3 board) 1992 Ray Wuco San Joaquin Delta College 1993 Frank Denney Chabot College " Wade Ellis Jr. West Valley College " Brandon Wheeler Sacramento City College 1994 Patrick Boyle Santa Rosa Junior College " Arthur Dull Diablo Valley College 1995 Hal Andersen Santa Rosa Junior College " Sister Clarice Sparkman San Jose City College 1996 James Curl Modesto Junior College 1997 Guy De Primo City College of San Francisco 1998 Allen Utterback Cabrillo College 1999 Barry Wood Santa Rosa Junior College 2000 Denny Burzynski West Valley College 2001 Chris Burditt Napa Valley College 2002 Wei Jen Harrison American River College 2003 Marilyn McBride Skyline College 2004 Michael Eurgubian Santa Rosa Junior College 2005 Lois Yamakoshi Los Medanos College 2006 Debra Landre San Joaquin Delta College 2007 Dave Johnson Diablo Valley College 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Chris Barker Rick Hough Jim Spencer Randy Taylor Cynthia Speed De Anza College Skyline College Santa Rosa Junior College Las Positas College Mendocino College Cynthia served as Foundation President since 2006. During all that service, she always tirelessly put the students first, squeezing every dime she could so that the most could go to foundation scholarships, driving miles out of her way to find the copier store with the lowest rates. It might surprise you to learn that each year several departments would not respond when notified that it was their year to grant one of their students a scholarship. Nonetheless, Cynthia would faithfully attempt to contact the department repeatedly until all arrangements had been made. In her tenure, the Foundation gave an amazing number of scholarships, often capitalizing on the organization's surplus budget to grant extra dollars to students. Cynthia's devotion to recognizing students' academic success was unparalleled and an inspiration to all on the board. 40 th Annual Fall Conference 4
CONFERENCE PROGRAM -‐ FRIDAY 2:30 -‐ 6:30 pm Registration Lobby 2:30 -‐ 4:30 pm NROC Math Event Redwood I Personalizing Teaching and Learning with Developmental Math-‐–An Open Program A free workshop open to anyone interested in integrating digital learning resources into developmental math curriculum. Members of the non-‐profit NROC Project will be discussing the adaptable teaching resources developed with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and contributing NROC Network Members, to help prepare learners for career and college success. The new resources cover topics in arithmetic, beginning algebra, intermediate algebra, geometry, statistics and trigonometry, and may be imported into any learning management system for integrating into classroom, online, blended, or flipped instruction. The workshop will include an inside view of the resources available, examples of various pilot use cases, and a discussion on the effective use of these types of flexible resources to engage students and enhance instructional options. The workshop will be facilitated by Ruth Rominger (Director of Research) and Eileen Akin (Pilot Coordinator) from The NROC Project. Visit HippoCampus.org to view the open developmental math content, and learn more about the full program at NROCmath.org. 7:00 -‐ 8:00 pm Reception (with coffee and tea) De Anza III 8:00 -‐ 9:00 pm Keynote Speaker: Van Emden Henson De Anza III A Child’s Garden of Graphs How a pinch of linear algebra, a smattering of graph theory, and a spoonful of computer science is dominating your life How do Netflix (or Amazon) recommend the movies (or products) you may like How do Google, Alta Vista, or Bing assemble their lists of results How does Mapquest figure out the best route from here to there How does Expedia find an airline itinerary How do Facebook or LinkedIn find people you may know How do dating sites propose possible matches How do banks catch potentially fraudulent activities These, and many more are examples of graphs in action. While some of the graph algorithms are subtle and complex, a surprising number are remarkably simple. Many can best be understood and implemented with the tools of linear algebra, relying heavily on the matrix-vector product, matrix factorizations, and spectral analysis. But the modern world is also the world of exponential growth of information, and many of the graphs behind these applications are rapidly growing to extraordinary size. How do we deal with graphs having tens or hundreds of billions of vertices Will it be necessary to work with trillion- or even quadrillion-vertex graphs How can we deal with information at enormous scales Where the mathematician and the applications scientist devise algorithms to organize, mine, or employ the information, it falls to the computer scientist to create the architectures, hardware, software environments, and the implementations making the computations possible. Just as the information is evolving, so are the approaches to computing and the architectures of the machines. In this talk, Van Emden Henson will describe some of the graph-based problems that have become ubiquitous in today’s world, the mathematical tools used to address them, and then some of the challenges and approaches to realizing these methods on the most modern computational engines. 9:00 -‐ 11:55 pm 4th annual Pearson Education Game Night Bonsai room This event is open to everyone. The Pearson math & stats team invites you to an evening of games, hors d'oeuvres, and drinks at CMC3! Join our team and our authors for food, conversation, and fun. 40 th Annual Fall Conference 5
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