Program Schedule
Friday's Schedule
| Time | Program Detail | |||
| 3 - 4:00 PM | Registration | |||
| 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Poster Session | |||
| 5:15 – 5:30 PM | Welcome Remarks Fatma Mili, Conference Chair | |||
| 5:30 PM | Dinner | |||
| 6:30 – 7:45 PM | Keynote: Technology Rocks! Jennifer Marsman, Microsoft | |||
| 8 PM - 9:45 PM | Speed Interviewing (sign up for a 10 minute time slot) | |||
| 8:00 – 8:45 PM | BoF: Best Practices for Student Organizations | BoF: How the iPad is Changing Computing | BoF: Robotics, Graphics, Service-learning - Which attract female students? | BoF: e-Textiles |
| 9:00 – 9:45 PM | BoF Session: Becoming a Technical Humanitarian | BoF Session: Let's Get Physical (Computing) | BoF: Few Women Enrolling in Sci, Eng Majors | BoF: e-Textiles (repeat) |
| 10 PM - 11:30 AM | CS Unplugged and Board Games by the Pool (Hilton) | |||
Saturday's Schedule
| Time | Program Detail | ||||
| 8:00 AM | Registration (Open through 10:00) | ||||
| 8:30 - 9:30 AM | Computing in our Future: Perspectives from Industry | ||||
| 9:30 -10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Keynote: Computer Science + Other Discipline= Endless Possibilities Speaker: Dr. Betty H.C. Cheng |
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| 11:15 - 12:15 AM | Paper Session 1 | Preparing for a Successful Career in Industry | Addressing Digital & Social Divides through Tech | ||
| 12:15 - 1:15 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM | Paper Session 2 | Making of Computer Games | Faculty Session: Recruiting Women to Your Computing Major | Career and Graduate School Fair (ends at 3:30) | |
| 2:30 - 2:45 PM | Break | ||||
| 2:45 - 3:00 PM | Group Photo | ||||
| 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Panel: Balancing Work and Life | Panel: How's and Why's of Grad School | Overcoming Imposter Syndrome for Technical Women | ||
| Awards and Closing Remarks | 4:00 - 4:30 PM | ||||
Birds of a Feather Session: Best Practices for Computing and Engineering Based Student Organizations
8:00 - 8:45 Friday
Jennifer Janusch, Oakland University
Are you in SWE, ACM-W, or a WIC group, or are you interested in starting a chapter? Take advantage of this rare opportunity to give and receive feedback from student organizations outside your own academic community. Discuss "road blocks", how to recruit and maintain members, and, potentially, joint activities between colleges and universities.
Birds of a Feather Session: How the iPad is Changing Computing
8:00 - 8:45 Friday
Jodi Spangler, Lakeshore Mac
Learn how to be ahead of the game in this new and exciting quantum shift on how we ineract with technology and how it will effect you in the future.
Birds of a Feather Session: Robotics, Graphics, or Service-learning - Which will attract a significant number of female students to pursue computing?
8:00 - 8:45 Friday
Krish Narayanan, Eastern Michigan University
Many introductory CS classes are now teaching programming through LEGO robots, Alice, Scratch, and software development projects for real clients. Are these efforts are actually attracting female students to enter the field? Share your own experiences and views of these approaches.
Birds of a Feather Session:
Birds of a Feather Session: Introductory e-Textiles Workshop: Crafts for the Geeky
8:00 - 8:45 Friday, repeated 9:00 - 9:45 Friday
(Each session limited to 10 people due to space)
Danielle VanDyke, Google
Are you thimble impaired but like playing with LEDs, an expert crafter looking for a new challenge, or just cyberpunk-curious? Take a break from the computer screen and build a simple, fashionable accessory with e-textiles (aka soft circuits). No experience in sewing or electronics required.
Birds of a Feather Session: Becoming a Technical Humanitarian
9:00 – 9:45 Friday
Revi Sterling, University of Colorado
What do technical experts need to know to contribute to societal transformation and add lasting value? In this BoF, we will discuss some of the underlying reasons for humanitarian failures and explore ways in which technologits can support their good intentions with solid foundations.
Birds of a Feather Session:
9:00 – 9:45 Friday
Paul Albee, Central Michigan University
Computing is more than just sitting in front of a glass box and typing all day. Physical computing enables humans and computers to interact on human terms, supporting novel human-computer interfaces and bringing compute power to bear in non-traditional problem domains. This BoF will examine some current physical computing platforms that have application for work and fun.
Birds of a Feather Session: Few Women are enrolling in Science and Engineering Majors
9:00 – 9:45 Friday
Sebnem Onsay, Oakland University
Women have made tremendous progress in scientific and engineering fields over the last 50 years. However, in the transition from high school to college, more female students are becoming less likely to declare majors in these fields. This session will address these concerns and try to identify causes.
Plenary Session: Computing in our Future: Perspectives from Industry
8:30 - 9:30 Saturday
Gain insights from industry professionals about what the future of computing holds.
| Session Chair: | Linda Ott, Michigan Technological University |
| Panelists: | Louise Hemond-Wilson, IBM Sarah Nieter, Medtronic |
Paper Session 1
11:15-12:15 Saturday
- Nancy Alrajei, Oakland University - Differential Elasticity for Network Resilience
- Suzan Arslantur, Mohammad Siadat, and Theophilius Ogunyemi, Oakland University - Comparison of Rule Extraction Techniques Using Fully-Controlled Simulation-Based Datasets
- Marci Wojcik, Oakland University - Multi-Voice Transcription
- Mounika Reddy and Thouty Reddy, Oakland University - Assistive Querying Technologies for XML and Relational Databases
Panel: How to Prepare for a Successful Career in Industry
11:15-12:15 Saturday
Hear first-hand accounts from women working in the computing field on the types of careers available. Get your questions answered on what to expect if you choose to go into industry.
| Session Chair: | Teresa VanderSloot, Michigan State |
| Panelists: | Jessica Parks, Web Application Engineer, TechSmith Corporation Danielle VanDyke, Software Engineer, Google |
Addressing Digital and Social Divides through Technology
11:15-12:15 Saturday
S. Revi Sterling, Faculty Director of the ICTD Graduate Program at the ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder
Information and Communication Technology for Development is a burgeoning field for both high tech companies and computer science researchers. In this talk, Dr. Sterling will talk about positive and negative trends in ICTD and the larger international development communities.
Paper Session 2
1:30 - 2:30 Saturday
- Sonia Haiduc, Wayne State and Jairo Aponte, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Supporting Program Comprehension with Source Code Summarization
- Adrienne Lamilza, Oakland University - Self-Branding: Using Social Media Technology to Predict our Future
- Amal Alhosban, Khayyam Hashmi, Zaki Malik, Brahim Medjahed, Wayne State - Predicting Faults for Web Services
- Manshi Nawab, Oakland University - Medicaresoft/li>
Faculty Session: Recruiting Women into Your Computing Major
1:30 - 2:45 Saturday
Leisa D. Thompson, NCWIT Director of Research and Consulting
Even as we witness tremendous growth in computing occupations' size and influence over our lives, women continue to be underrepresented in these fields. Faculty have the opportunity to reverse this trend through both active recruitment and courses that engage and prepare women as well as men for computing careers. This session will present research-based methods for successfully attracting women into your computing major. Materials created by National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT), social scientists and, designers will be provided and discussed to clarify methods that have been shown effective.
The Making of Computer Games
1:30 - 2:30 Saturday
Gabrielle Myers and Jennifer Sieweke, Michigan Technological University
Video games aren't just for guys, but games directed at a female audience are few and far between. We'll discuss what goes into making a game, from feasibility to release, and how to develop them with women in mind. We will also discuss how creating games can teach valuable lessons that can't be acquired in the classroom.
Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome for Technical Women
3:00 - 4:00 Saturday
Jerri Barrett, Vice President of Marketing, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
Do you discount your success, or doubt that it will continue? Do you feel like a fake? Do you think that your success is due to luck and not your own internal abilities? If your answer to any of these questions if yes then you may be experiencing Imposter Syndrome and you are not alone. This talk will identify some of the symptoms of the Imposter Syndrome and discuss simple strategies you can use to overcome these feelings.
The How's and Why's of Grad School
3:00 - 4:00 Saturday
The aim of this panel is to provide undergraduate students interested in graduate school information on how to apply and get into graduate school and to pass along tips for success to potential and current graduate students (particularly newer graduate students).
| Moderator: | Laurie Dillon, Michigan State University |
| Panelists: | Eralda Caushaj, Oakland University Markie Struble, Central Michigan University Farhana Khan, IDV Solutions (Michigan State University, MS 2010) |
Balancing Work and Life
3:00 - 4:00 Saturday
Learn insights into how to balance school, work, personal relationships, or whatever aspects of your life are competing for your time and energy from women who are succeeding at finding a balance.
| Session Chair: | Krish Narayanan, Eastern Michigan University |
| Panelists: | April Noren, Software Engineer, TechSmith Corporation Melissa Benzie, Software Consultant, SRT Solutions Teresa Rowe, CEO University Computing Services, Oakland University |
Friday
MICWIC 2011 will kick off at Oakland University on Friday, April 1 with a student poster session. We'll enjoy dinner and a welcome from conference chair Fatma Mili. Jennifer Marsman of Microsoft will energize the crowd with the keynote address "Technology Rocks!"
Friday evening we will hold breakout "Birds of a Feather" sessions and "speed interviews" (these are mock interviews for students who want to hone their interview skills). The evening will conclude with cookies, CS Unplugged, and games by the pool at the Hilton Suites.
Saturday
On Saturday morning, learn about the "Future Role of Computing in Industry", check out fascinating research at the paper sessions, get the facts about imposter syndrome, and consider the wealth of opportunity CS affords as you take in the academic keynote "Computer Science + Other Discipline = Endless Possibilities" by Dr. Betty Cheng.
The graduate school / career fair will take place after lunch on Saturday. Bring your resume!
The afternoon schedule includes sessions on video game creation, being an entrepreneur, the effect of IT in developing countries, work/life balance, and more. There will be a special workshop for faculty titled "Recruiting Women to Your Computing Major" The day will conclude with awards for best paper and best poster.
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