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GENERAL POSTER SESSION
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Girls, Games, and Getting to the First
Day
Presenter: Gillian Smith (University of
California at Santa Cruz)
Middle and high school education is
crucial in shaping girls’ perceptions
of computing. Game design challenges
misconceptions about computing and
introduces computational thinking, but may
be unappealing to some girls. This poster
overviews the effectiveness of game design
for increasing girls’ interest in computing,
compares several languages for teaching
young students, and shares experiences
with mixed versus single-gender groups.
Giving Students Automatic Feedback
on Java Program Design
Presenter: Hannah Blau (University of
Massachusetts, Amherst)
This research will partially automate the
process of giving students feedback
on the design of their Java programs. My
goal is to diagnose silent design flaws that
produce no compile-time or runtime errors,
no incorrect output. These flaws include
inappropriate subclassing, a constructor that
runs the entire program, instance variables
that should have been local variables. These
mistakes are characteristic of programmers
who have not yet assimilated the objectoriented
idiom.
Global Social Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Grace (Ge) Wang (University of
California, San Diego)
We will discuss some of our experiences
in the past year as we
transitioned TIES, an experiential learning
program at UCSD, to a program that focuses
on establishing collaborations on a global
scale. We will discuss some of our current
projects and collaborations, highlight some
of our accomplishments in the past year, and
some of the challenges that we encountered
in the course of our transition.
Graph Based Mining On Weighted
Directed Graphs
Presenter: Sijin Abdulkarim (Indiana
University - Purdue University
Indianapolis)
Weighted and directed graphs are highly
significant in biological networks.
A novel sub-network mining algorithm
was developed to find the most significant
pathways from a weighted directed network.
A biological problem associated with Limb
regeneration was used to evaluate the
performance of the algorithm. The subnetworks
those are obtained were further
validated using the canonical pathways
found from the literature.
Grid Infrastructure Based Forensic
Analysis for Combating Global
Terrorism
Presenter: Jyotsana Sharma (Thapar
University)
Today, every nation relies on interconnected
computer systems. The access
to information networks via the Internet
enables even small terrorist outfits to wreak
disaster. Forensic analysis of network
traffic can prove useful in detecting and
preventing such terrorist attacks, but the
archiving and analysis is highly resource
intensive. Successful implementation of
grid computing to various computationally
intensive scientific and academic problems
has encouraged us to attempt the application
of grid computing to the terrorism
problem.
GUANYIN: A Cloud Computing
Infrastructure for Perpetual Checking of
Deployed Software
Presenter: Yunling Wang (Columbia
University)
Thorough checking of a software product
is now hampered by the ability to detect
all defects (bugs) during the pre-deployment
phases. We propose to build GUANYIN,
the first large-scale distributed software
reliability infrastructure. GUANYIN can
drive software into a variety of states by
performing live checking to capture real
software states triggered by large number
of end-users. It also leverages idle resources
to provide huge computing power for the
checking.
Hero In Vein
Presenter: Karen Gragg (Harvey Mudd
College)
Hero In Vein is an overhead shooter
meant to educate and raise awareness
about how HIV/AIDS is spread within the
body. In this game, the player is a B cell
who must help protect its host body from an
assault by HIV/AIDS. The ultimate goal is to
repress HIV/AIDS into its latency stage, so
that the afflicted individual can live a long
and happy life.
High Performance LINPACK on
Graphics Processing Units
Presenter: Priyanka Agrawal (National
Institute of Technology Surat)
High-Performance LINPACK Benchmark
is used as a performance measure
for ranking supercomputers in the TOP500
list. We study Graphics Processing Units
as an approach for efficient execution of
HPL. The results of our study indicate that
HPL involves large amount of data transfer
between CPU and GPU and thus GPU parallelism
cannot be fully exploited. Here, we
propose some optimizations to reduce data
transfers and achieve maximum speedup of
HPL.
How “Birds of a Feather Flock
Together” on Online Social Spaces
Presenter: Munmun De Choudhury
(Arizona State University)
Over several decades, social scientists
have been interested in the idea
that “similarity breeds connection” i.e.
“homophily”. Homophily structures the
ego-networks of individuals and is therefore
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