Tentative Program for the 2004 Midsoutheast ACM Conference
Final Program TBA

Friday events                            

7:30 - 9:00      Registration in Hotel Lobby

7:30 -8:15       Morning Coffee Poolside

 

Time

Track 1-Azalea

Track 2 - Dogwood I

Track 3 - Dogwood II

8:00 - 8:15

Welcome and Announcements

8:15 - 9:15

Keynote Address

 

9:15 - 9:30      Coffee Break Poolside

 

Session I

Time

Track 1-Azalea:  Doctoral Students

Session Chair:  Ken Adcock

Cleveland State Community College

Track 2 - Dogwood I:  Visualization – Undergraduate Presentations (Institutions with MS programs)

Session Chair:  Ashrafel Chowdhury

Georgia Perimeter College

Track 3 - Dogwood II:  Algorithms –Undergraduate Presentations (Institutions without MS programs)

Session Chair:  Joe Crowell

Oak Ridge National Lab (retired)

Track 4 - Magnolia Room:  Contemporary Issues – Professional Presentations

Session Chair:  Bob Bradley

University of Tennessee at Martin

9:30 - 9:50

Swapna Gupta (University of Alabama): Delivering Lessons Learned to NASA Scientists and Engineers:  A Dynamic Approach

Whitney Austin (Jackson State University):  Tracker Calibration for Immersive Visualization in a Reconfigurable Automatic Virtual Environment

Benessa Defend (Austin Peay State University):  Timing Experiments in the Internet

Otha L. Britton (University of Tennessee Martin):  Interfacing Java with ODBC Databases:  A Conference Registration Application

9:50 - 10:10

Enis Afgan (University of Alabama Birmingham):  Resource Brokering in a Grid Computing Environment

Ray Duke (Middle Tennessee State University):  Validating the Operation of a Central Processing Unit with Ease

Veranda Moffett (Mississippi Valley State University):  A Model and Simulation of a DOD Communication Network Based on the Stochastic Process in Real Time

 

10:10 - 10:30

Xin Chen (University of Alabama Birmingham):  A Study of Hybrid Genetic Algorithm in Clustering

Chris McNear (Middle Tennessee State University):  An Easily Modifiable, Interactive Simulator for Teaching Encryption Algorithms

Zachary H. Jones (High Point University):  Investigation of Algorithms for Solving Linear Assignment Problems

Tena F. McQueen, Bhagyavati, Neal Rogers, and Robert A. Fleck, Jr. (Columbus State University):  An Evaluation of Web Portal Strategies at Columbus State University

Session II

Time

Track 1-Azalea:  Masters Students

Session Chair:  Sylvia Colvin

Tennessee Valley Authority

Track 2 - Dogwood I:  Data Analysis – Undergraduate Presentations (Institutions with MS programs)

Session Chair:  Brenda Parker

Middle Tennessee State University

Track 3 - Dogwood II:  Data Collection Issues – Undergraduate Presentations (Institutions without MS programs) and Professional Presentations

Session Chair:  James Johnson

Murray State University

Track 4 - Magnolia Room:  CS Research – Professional Presentations

Session Chair:  Tesfa Haile

Jackson State University

10:35 - 10:55

Debbie Willard (Eastern Kentucky University):  Introducing Middle School Student to Computer Science

Evan Tran (California State University, Long Beach):  ISP Vulnerability Scanning

John Stepney and Camille Mason(Mississippi Valley State University):  Data Acquisition

Cen Li and Jungsoon Yoo (Middle Tennessee State University):  An Empirical Study of the Importance of Ordering Relation in Temporal Sequence Analysis

10:55 - 11:15

Carlos Pelayo Martin and Sharon E. Croke-Allsup (Columbus State University):  Challenges in Configuring a Remote Networking Laboratory

Matthew Curry (University of Alabama Birmingham):  Mining Bibliographic References from Legacy Documents

  

Carlos Santa and Stephanie Smullen (University of Tennessee Chattanooga):  Real Time Rendering of Digital Elevation Models Using an Interactive 3D Terrain Visualization Tool

11:15 - 11:35

Karthik Harihar (Columbus State University):  Using Wireless Mobile Devices for Interactive and Personalized Delivery of Promotions

Fredrick Johnson (Columbus State University):  Using Mobile Computing Devices and Real-Time Image Analysis to Provide Parking Information

Haifei Li, Patrick C. K. Hung, and David Ahn (Union University):  Enforcing Privacy Policies for RFID Data Collection and Processing (Professional Presentation)

Brian Dudley and Stephanie Smullen (University of Tennessee Chattanooga):  Application of Stereoviewing to Enhance Spatial Reasoning

11:35 - 11:55

Kimani Price (Jackson State University):  Virtual Confined Space Experiment

Stefan Rusek (Middle Tennessee State University):  Developing a Learning Component for an Intelligent Tutoring System

Vernon L. McGlone and Teresa A. McGlone (Cumberland College and Eastern Kentucky University):  Building a Customer Database for Database Marketing:  A Case Study (Professional Presentation)

Mohamed Ibrahim and Stephanie Smullen (University of Tennessee Chattanooga):  Distributed High Resolution Tiled Display

 

 

12:00 - 1:00    Lunch Poolside

 

 

Session III

Time

Track 1-Azalea:  CS Education – Professional Presentations

Session Chair:  Joyce Blair Crowell

Belmont University

Track 2 - Dogwood I:  Overcoming Obstacles – Undergraduate Presentations (Institutions with MS programs)

Session Chair:  Jiang Li

Austin Peay State University

Track 3 - Dogwood II:  Corporate Issues – Professional Presentations

Session Chair:  James Clark

University of Tennessee at Martin

Track 4 - Magnolia Room:  Software – Professional Presentations

Session Chair:  Cen Li

Middle Tennessee State University

1:00 - 1:20

Jeff Gray (University of Alabama Birmingham):  Introducing High School Students to Java through Lego Robot Experiments

Patricia Gilbert (Columbus State University):  The Challenge of Working with Contractors:  A CS Student"s Perspective

James Patterson and Robert A. Fleck, Jr. (Columbus Water Works and Columbus State University):  Using Information Technology for Competitive Advantage in the Public Sector

Suk Jai Seo and Greg Dukeman (Middle Tennessee State University):  Java-Based Graphical User Interface for MAVERIC

1:20 - 1:40

Bhagyavati, Stan Kurkovsky, and Mei Yang (Columbus State University and University of Nevada at Las Vegas):  Lessons Learned:  First-Year Experiences of the NSF REU Grant

Bryan Schuder (Middle Tennessee State University):  805x Microcontroller and the 44780 LCD:  Sorting Through the Chaos

Sylvia C. Colvin (Tennessee Valley Authority):  IT Change Management with HP Open View Service Desk

Emery Gathers (University of Tennessee Martin):  An ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System Development Plan for the Software Development Industry

1:40 - 2:00

Adel Abunawass, Will Lloyd, and Edwin Rudolph (State University of West Georgia):  Our Experience with Online Student Feedback

Teresa L. Ramsey and Earlene L. Thompson (Jackson State University):  Wireless Sensor Network Deployments

Chris Harris (IBM Global Services):  Programmers Should Do More Than Code

Ken R. Adcock, Jr. (UPS Supply Chain Solutions):  MRP and Object-Oriented Programming Concepts:  The Ideal Combination

2:00 - 2:20

Sylvia Clark Pulliam (Western Kentucky University):   Revisiting Traditional Ethical Philosophies In Today's Computer Science Classroom

Daniel Gibbs (Middle Tennessee State University):  Case Study on a Competitive Graphical Game

T. F. Higginbotham (Southeastern Louisiana University):  So You Want to be the Boss?

Srinivasarao Krishnaprasad (Jacksonville State University):  Proactive Computing:  Characteristics, Technology, and Applications

 

 

2:20 - 2:30      Coffee Break Poolside

 

Session IV

Time

Track 1-Azalea:  CS Education – Professional Presentations

Session Chair: 

Srinivasarao Krishnaprasad

Jacksonville State University

Track 2 - Dogwood I:  Software Design – Undergraduate Presentations (Institutions with MS programs) and Professional Presentations

Session Chair:  Jeff Gray

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Track 3 - Dogwood II:  Building PC Clusters

Track 4 - Magnolia Room

2:30 - 2:50

Bill Janeway (Eastern Kentucky University):    A Freshman Level Discrete Mathematics Course

Chris Lance (Middle Tennessee State University):  Programming Environment for On-Line CS Laboratory

Laxman Nathawat (Pellissippi State Technical Community College):  Workshop

Not in use

2:50 - 3:10

Mack Thweatt (Middle Tennessee State University):  Backtracking at the Barrel

Victoria Davis (University of Alabama Birmingham):  Model-Driven Application Tailorability for Mobile Devices

Laxman Nathawat (Pellissippi State Technical Community College):  Workshop

Not in use

3:10 - 3:30

Sung Yoo and Jungsoon Yoo (Middle Tennessee State University):    Student Progress Monitoring Tool

Ted Stirm (University of South Alabama):  URBA's Client Side Inner Workings

Laxman Nathawat (Pellissippi State Technical Community College):  Workshop

Not in use

3:30 - 3:50

Robert A. Pilgrim (Murray State University):  Introducing Embedded Systems in the Digital Logic Laboratory

Jonathan Lee (Jackson State University):  Virtual Private Networks

Laxman Nathawat (Pellissippi State Technical Community College):  Workshop

Not in use

3:50 - 4:10

Wayne Summers and Bhagyavati (Columbus State University):  Creating a Virtual Laboratory to Teach Information Assurance Courses Online

Bob Bradley(University of Tennessee Martin):  A Simple Handwritten Character Recognizer Algorithm Implemented in C# (Professional Presentation)

Laxman Nathawat (Pellissippi State Technical Community College):  Workshop

Not in use

4:10 - 4:30

Jim Clark (University of Tennessee Martin):  Use of a Simple Assembler/Interpreter for a Hypothetical Machine in an UG Language Translation Course

Hugh Garraway (University of Southern Mississippi):  Does Academic Freedom Include Academic E-mail Privacy?  A Case Study of Institutional Monitoring (Professional Presentation)

Laxman Nathawat (Pellissippi State Technical Community College):  Workshop

Not in use

4:30 - 5:30

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Judges meeting

Not in use

5:30 - 6:00

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General business meeting

Not in use

7:00 - 9:00

Banquet - Azalea and Dogwood I

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