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GENERAL POSTER SESSION
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Partnering with the NCWIT Academic
Alliance to Attract and Retain Women
in Computing: Real Programs for Real
Progress
Presenter: Kimberly Kalahar (NCWIT)
This poster provides an overview of the
Academic Alliance network for the
National Center for Women and Information
Technology and will enable participants
to understand benefits of joining this
growing coalition of institutions committed
to increasing recruitment and retention of
women in Computer Science departments
across the nation.
Personalized Medicine: Optimizing HIV
Treatment to Patient and Virus
Presenter: Betty Y. Cheng (Carnegie
Mellon University)
Drug resistance is a major obstacle in
HIV treatment and combination drug
therapy must be optimized to the patient’s
unique virus population, immune system and
lifestyle. Current prediction systems focus
on single-drug treatments given the virus
genotype. Here, we showed the importance
of combining patient demographics with
virus genotype in predicting combination
therapy response. Our automatic feature
selection method identified known resistance-associated
mutations and clustered
mutations that may have structural relationships.
Reaching Across Boundaries: The
Founding of a Women in Engineering
Group at FactSet Research Systems.
A Case Study in Promoting and
Supporting Diversity in the Workplace
Presenter: Titapha Tiet (FactSet Research
Systems Inc.)
presentation of ideas about how and
A why to start a women in engineering
group in a field where women are typically
underrepresented. We discuss practical
ways a women in engineering group can
successfully promote and support women
in technology in the workplace and in the
general community. We explore resources
made available to employees in advancing
their educational and professional achievements
in engineering and demonstrate their
impact and value
Reading the Air: Combining Instant
Messaging with Real Space
Presenter: Miyuki Ozawa (Keio University)
The author proposes a new communication
tool using computer network. She
tries to develop an instant messenger with
unique functions. She calls these features
“Reading the air” function. She hopes that
this can improve quality of communication,
realizing conversations or behaviors more
similar to those in the real space. This
messenger can change its own actions by
physical relation or locations among users.
In concrete, she will combine IM with microcontrollers/sensor
and interactive device.
Remote Mentoring – The Distance
Really Doesn’t Matter!!
Presenter: Sowmya Vijayalakshmi (IBM
India Private Ltd)
This presentation will explore the world
of mentoring and discuss insights. The
discussion will include the powerful strategies
that one can adopt to master art of
remote mentoring. Some commonly faced
problems and solutions in such a working
association will also be discussed. There
will be a mock show to the audience of both
good &bad remote mentoring examples.
There will be a discussion on best tools that
could be adopted.
Rethink Mainframe as Collaborating
Tool
Presenter: Helene Lyon (IBM)
Helene is on stage to feature a successful
career path in an IT company thanks
to her love of a technology that has lasted
over time – The Mainframe - and her love
for collaborating and sharing amongst
colleagues from different countries and
customers worldwide.
She continues promoting the message from
Grace Hopper about COBOL and is very
happy to participate in these celebration
days.
Routing for Diverse Wireless Networks
Presenter: Xiaozheng Tie (University of
Massachusetts, Amherst)
Wireless routing is becoming compartmentalized:
protocols designed for
on environment such as mesh, MANET and
DTN perform poorly or break down in other
environments.
We designed and implemented ReGain,
a routing protocol that works well across
diverse wireless networks. ReGain identifies
packet replication as a key structural
difference between protocols designed for
opposite ends of the network connectivity,
and self-adapts replication to the extent of
network connectivity.
Saving Tomorrow, Destroying Today?
Presenter: Alejandra Maldonado (Instituto
Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de
Monterrey)
Sometimes technology which has helped
us to grow intellectually has been doing
human aging.
If we have the ability to help simplify
life, we could use this same technology
to create new ways against the one that
has affected our planet. We had focus on
pollution caused by alkaline batteries to
support our topic, proposing alternatives
in our community like creating campaigns
that could help students get involved in the
change.
Scavenger Hunt: An Embedded
Wireless System Approach
Presenter: Sravanthi Dandamudi
(Unitrends)
Recent statistics have shown the decline
in the number of students choosing
computer science as a career. This problem
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