Ask for Help!
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Tina Zaza
Indiana University
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As a woman in a male-dominated field, you may feel awkward asking
questions or attending office hours when many of your colleagues are
men. This is one of the biggest mistakes you can make coming into a
computer science department! This lightning talk will outline easy
steps for a successful student-to-instructor help session. It will
also urge students to team up with their classmates for extra support
and to use office hours to their advantage.
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Potential Women in Science
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Ebru Celikel
Earlham College
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To find ways of increasing the number of women scientists, we
investigate what happens in the early stages of college education at
Ege University in Turkey. In our study, we identify the number of
women in different graduate departments. Assuming that the graduate
level women form the pool of potential future academics, the study
predicts the number of women scientists departments can expect in the
next decade. The study also delves into the reasons why girls avoid or
embrace specific topics, providing information that could be used to
improve the conditions in some departments, making them more appealing
to girls.
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Cooperation Between Schools
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Amanda Stephan
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
and
Catherine Brown
Purdue University
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This talk is on the possible cooperation of students in different
schools to advance women in computing. It focuses mainly on the
experiences of two students who were good friends in high school, but
have ended up at different colleges and ways that they can and have
cooperated to achieve their mutual goal of getting more women in
computing from so far apart.
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Teaching Computers at a Women's College
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Lana Lytle
St Mary-of-the-Woods College
and Cheryl Dugas
Indiana State University
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Nurturing, attracting, and representing women in computing, while
looking at the big picture.
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Bioinformatics
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Beenish Chaudry
Indiana University
ADVISOR:
Amr Sabry
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The talk will give a brief survey of biology for computer scientist.
Basic concepts such as DNA structure, RNA processing, transcription,
translation, protein folding, nucleotide sequence and many more will
be covered. This will be followed by a discussion of the goals of
bioinformatics for the next 50 years. The talk will end with a
refreshing and fun comparison between computer scientists and
biologists.
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Scientific Computing: A New Way of Acquiring Knowledge
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Teja Sunkara
Indiana State University
ADVISOR:
Yihua Bai
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Scientific computing is the mathematical and computational basis for
simulating and solving real world problems. As problem size grows
large, parallel computing becomes essential. Today, scientific
computing is regarded as a new way of acquiring knowledge.
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Digital Identity Protection
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Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel
Purdue University
ADVISOR:
Elisa Bertino
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Digital identity is managed as a collection of identity attributes,
which need to be protected as they may convey sensitive information
about an individual and can be targets of identity theft. The
intuitive solution of maintaining confidentiality through
cryptographic techniques is inadequate when dealing with identity, as
identifiers are often released to third parties and validated each
time authentication is required or an access control policy needs to
be enforced. Preventing identity theft in cyberspace is especially
hard because digital information is easily copied without the user's
notice and it is difficult to find and prosecute the thieves. Common
identity theft attacks include password cracking, pharming, phishing
and database attacks.
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Type Inference
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Pooja Malpani
Indiana University
ADVISOR:
Arun Chauhan
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We describe a compiler that converts Matlab code to equivalent code in
C (or Fortran) so users may freely develop code in Matlab and
eventually compile it to a low-level language for robustness and
improved performance. A key component is the type inference system
which provides the information necessary to translate the code into a
typed environment like C.
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Preventing Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Lattice Coloring
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Sule Simsek
University of Missouri-Rolla
ADVISOR:
Dr. Bruce McMillin
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Existing research on intrusion detection has focused on sequential
intrusions. We consider intrusions that are formed by concurrent
interactions of multiple processes and that cannot be detected using
sequential methods. L-BID (Lattice-based intrusion detection)
represents a distributed system trace as a distributive lattice. In
order to track the propagation of the intrusion, L-BID lattice nodes
are colored with different colors based on the role of the node within
the intrusion scenario. We investigate the applicability of lattice
coloring to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Feeling Chemistry in a Virtual World
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Tonya Stroman
Indiana University
ADVISORS:
Youn Lim and Raquel Hill
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Match.com has 40 million subscribers. However
they have launched a new site, Chemistry.com. According to Match.com, purely profile based dating sites only
match compatibility, ignoring the importance of chemistry. The
new system utilized by Chemistry.com is
designed to help you find both of these essential elements. My team
hypothesized that the real problem may be that the current mental
model of the online dating environment is not fully exploring the
power of the technology available and the ways that online dating
environments should mirror off-line dating environments. After
reviewing existing research on online dating, online relationships and
intimacy and interacting with online dating services and online
non-dating 3D room environments, my team has developed an online room
which represents the online dater.
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Innovation, Six Sigma, and IT
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Rodi Tountcheva
Ohio State University
ADVISORS:
Rajiv Ramnath and Timothy Long
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What is Fortune magazine's advice to companies who want to be named on
its Most Admired List? Innovate, innovate, innovate. Companies today
realize the importance of innovation and the need to make it happen
throughout the entire organization. What is the right way to drive
innovation? How do Six Sigma, a rigorous process-oriented quality
control methodology, and innovation fit together? What is the role of
the IT organization in a corporate innovation initiative? How do you
take an IT innovative idea from idea to solution? This talk will
briefly describe the highlights of my MS CSE thesis research that is
being sponsored by Nationwide Insurance.
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