CCSCNE-05 Conference Committee Meeting -- Minutes

Providence College, Jan 15, 2005

Attendees

Frank Ford (FF) (Chair)
Lawrence D'Antonio (LD)
Richard Wyatt (RW)
Scott McElfresh (SM)
Michael Gousie (MG)
Karl R. Wurst (KW)
David Hemmendinger (DH)
Viera Proulx (VP)
Ingrid Russell (IR)
Scott Hunter (SH)
Brad Richards (BR)
Jim Teresco (JT)
Lonnie Fairchild (LF)
Kris Powers (KP)
Laurie King (LK)
Hemant Pendharkar (HP)

1. Local Arrangements

Hotel

The Comfort Inn in Pawtucket is the only current hotel. Cost is $79. A second hotel is being considered.

Rooms

All sessions are in Slavin. There is an extra building available if needed. The Vendors will be in Slavin in the "Glass Room" near the plenary sessions and break locations.

The Workshops will not be in Slavin (location is not yet known).

The Programming contest will be in Sowa. There are 20+ machines. Up to 30 teams pose no problems.

The Posters will be in the library on the first floor, which is open and so has space for refreshments, laptops, etc.

Parking

Parking will certainly be available on the Saturday, but probably not the Friday as it conflicts with classes. If so, conference attendees will have to park on the local streets.

Meals

Lunch has been finalized and will be sandwiches, salads, etc. The cost is $8.26 per person.

The dinner is not yet finalized. The provided wishes to offer only two choices; Frank will seek a more standard and agreeable three choices. At present we could have any two of: chicken @ $12.25, pasta @ $10.95, scallops @$ 15.50, or haddock @ $15.15.

Extra meals are to be charged $30. SM: Should we reduce it? The consensus was "no".

Dinner will be in the same room as the plenary sessions.

Reception

No alcohol is planned. There was a consensus that Frank should look into it and try to get it as many attendees would expect it. There was some discussion of legal responsibility.

2. Programming Contest

The needed software has been tested and works well. It provides for anonymous and blind judging, permits judges to send messages to teams. FF: it is very good and worked well in the past.

The programming languages supported are: C, C++, Java (all on windows XP, or Linux). the C and C++ are Visual Studio, the Java, NetBean. There will be guidelines for the Linux.

Authors of candidate problems should get their problems in 2 weeks before the contest.

This year, a serious attempt will be made to make problems 2 and 3 somewhat easier than in the past when too many teams completed only problem 1.

The cut-off date for registering a team is not yet set.

Second teams from the same school are (again) allowed but only after all schools have their first team. Although the contest chair, Richard Close this year, normally oversees it, he seems unavailable. FF will therefore organize all matters to do with the contest.

3. Registration Forms

Since we need about 15 judges, it was suggested that the registration form ask: Do you want to be a judge for the poster.

Fees

Registration fees are to be:

$120 -- regular registration

$150 -- regular late registration

$40 -- student registration

$50 -- programming contest, per team

$200 -- vendor table

$100 -- vendor presentation

$10 -- extra proceedings

$30 -- extra banquet

$10 -- old proceedings
(The vendors are presented with an offer of $300 for a presentation, including a table.)

Registrations must arrive, not merely post-marked, one week before the conference.

We will still not be using PayPal. There is too little time for 2005 and in it not not leave the paper trail that we need. KP, SM and KW will look into it for 2006.

Deadlines

Presenters -- Feb 11

Camera-ready date -- Feb 11

Early Registration --April 8 (postmarked)

For AV requests (presenters) -- April 11

For AV requests (posters) -- March 4

Programming Contest -- March 4

Grab-bag

KW needs a list of what AV is available is what rooms.

All registration forms are to go to FF.

The copyright forms go to MG.

Receipts will be put in the folders (ie, registration packets), as per the remarks already on our web site.

4. Papers, Panels, Tutorials and Workshops

Acceptance rates

Papers: 20(accepted)/42(submitted)

Panels: 2/4

Workshops: 2/4. with a third being accepted as a tutorial

Tutorials: 2/2, plus a third, being the third workshop just mentioned.

Workshops

The Workshops, held on the Friday morning before the conference proper, are:

"Computer Security",  Daniel Farkas, Narayan Murthy

"Active Learning Exercises for Use in Introductory Programming 
Courses", Keith J. Whittington

Sessions

There will be four concurrent session, which will follow the model of 2004, as follows:

Session 1a:     Special Topics
1039    PHYSICAL COMPUTING AND MULTIMODAL INPUT IN COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERFACES
                Scarlatos, Lori, Brooklyn College
                Scarlatos, Tony, Stony Brook University

1022    AN EXPERT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR INTRODUCTORY AI 
COURSE PROJECTS
                Martincic, Cynthia, Saint Vincent College
                Metzler, Douglas, University of Pittsburgh

1015    Rocktest: A Programming Contest Management System
                Conlon, Michael, Slippery Rock University of PA

Session 1b:     Teaching/Debugging Techniques
1024    A Tutor on Subprogram Implementation
                Kumar, Amruth, Ramapo College of New Jersey
                Fernandes, Eric

1043    Aspect-Oriented Debugging
                Stamey, John, Coastal Carolina University

1041    BACK TO THE FUTURE: A LOOK AT RECURSIVE BINARY TREES
                Beidler, John, Univ. of Scranton
                Smart, Carolyn, Univ. of Scranton

Session 1c - Tutorial: Randomized Algorithms
                Yana Kortsarts
                Jeffrey Rufinus


Session 2a:     Assembly Language Issues
1034    TEACHING ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE WITHOUT USING (AS MUCH) ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE
                Hunter, Scott, Siena College

1016    The Effect Of The Harvard Architecture On The Teaching Of 
Assembly Language
                Maurer, W. Douglas, George Washington University

Session 2b - Panel: Considerations on Undergraduate CS Research
                Stefan A. Robila
                Amruth Kumar
                Doug Baldwin
                Clare Congdon

Session 2c - Tutorial: Focus on the Design of Classes in OO Programming Courses
                Viera K. Proulx
                Tanya Cashorali


Session 3a:     Introductory Computing
1040    A New Approach To Computer Science in the Liberal Arts
                Burns, Brendan, University of Massachusetts Amherst

1007    A CRITICAL COMPUTER LITERACY COURSE
                Hoffman, Mark, Quinnipiac University

1035    DESIGNING AND RUNNING A PRE-COLLEGE COMPUTING COURSE
                Sabin, Mihaela, Rivier College
                Higgs, Bryan, Rivier College
                Riabov, Vladimir, Rivier College
                Moreira, Alberto, Rivier College


Session 3b:     Upper-level Curriculum
1030    THE VIRTUAL FIREFLY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE 
RESEARCH PROJECT
                Austin, Kevin, Fitchburg State College
                Dunlap, Julie, Fitchburg State College
                Glover, Matthew, Fitchburg State College
                McKinnon, Joshua, Fitchburg State College
                Mohney, Duane, Fitchburg State College
                Taft, Michael, Fitchburg State College
                Vysocky, Brian, Fitchburg State College
                Cratsley, Christopher, Fitchburg State College

1012    Real-World Project Management in the Academic Environment
                Tan, Joo, Mansfield University
                Phillips, John, Mansfield University

1028    Playing Around in the CS Curriculum:  Reversi as a Teaching Tool
                Valentine, David, Slippery Rock University


Session 3c - Panel: Innovation in Undergraduate Computer Science Education
                Amruth Kumar
                Homma Farian
                Matthew Haas
                David Kay
                Frank Lee
                Yelena Kushleyeva


Session 4a:     Software Development
1005    A Software Development Project: A Student-Written Assessment System
                Poger, Sofya, Iona College
                Ricardo, Catherine, Iona College
                Schiaffino, Robert, Iona College

1002    INCORPORATING A FAULT CATEGORIZATION AND ANALYSIS PROCESS IN 
THE SOFTWARE BUILD CYCLE
                Masuck, Carol, University of Idaho

1014    TEACHING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING USING A TRACEABILITY-BASED 
DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY
                Rao, T.M., SUNY Brockport
                Mitra, Sandeep, SUNY Brockport
                Bullinger, Thomas, Archsynergy, ltd.


Session 4b:     Introductory Computer Science
1042    A Student Model for Object-Oriented Design and Programming
                WEI, FANG, ACM
                Moritz, Sally, ACM
                Parvez, Shahida
                Blank, Glenn, ACM

1029    Student Competitions and Bots in an Introductory Programming Course
                Harcourt, Ed, St. Lawrence University
                Ladd, Brian, St. Lawrence University

1009    Student Performance Studying Ethics in the Context of Internet Use
                Owens, Barbara Boucher, Southwestern University

Session 4c - Tutorial: Including a Web/Database Unit in CS0
                Tom Whaley

Best Papers

A subcommittee was formed, consisting of RW (chair), LD, and HP. All details are delegated to the committee.

MG will send to RW a list of the candidates for best papers.

KP will use her authority to write CCSC cheques to write the cheques for the best paper winners so that we can, at last, present them at the conference.

5. Speakers

The candidates, who are not yet asked, are (in order of our preference):

Matthias Felleissen (Northeastern Univ) -- VP will ask him as she is a colleague

Vera Pless (Univ of Illinois, U-C)

Neil Immerman (U Mass, Amherst)
The ideal date for their acceptances is Feb 11.

No money has been allocated in the budget for speakers, except for a $300 honorarium. If we give speakers money for travel, and most thought we should, we will need to find an additional $1000 or thereabouts. SM says there is no problem finding up to $650. However, it was pointed out that we could always use some of the $8000 allocated to the so-called 10-year gifts. It appears to be the consensus that such a use of that money was agreeable.

6. Posters

There were 48 submitted and all will be accepted. Up to 80 easels are available. Tables will also be available. DH will find out whether poster presenters need a table or easel.

The setup time for poster presenters is 1.00pm. WE will have access to the venue, the library, by 11.00am

There will be two rounds of poster judging, which will require about 15 judges. The first round will occur after the first plenary session at 2.15pm. The second round will judge a list of 6-8 posters chosen in the first round and will be done before the reception.

All poster judging is to be based solely on the posters themselves. Students are NOT to be present when their poster is being judged.

FF will look into finding (enough) power cords for the presenters.

The poster abstracts for the journal are to be (not more than) 500 words.

7. Vendors

It was noted that we are losing vendors and that there is no obvious solution. Last year we had 7-8 vendors

The deadline for a vendor to be included in the program is April 14.

8. Publicity

FF needs all relevant information on papers, panels, etc. ASAP. He also needs biographies from the tutorial and workshop presenters.

It was noted that the membership list is not very comprehensive or reliably up-to-date.

9. Camera Readies

The minutes of the September meeting shoe that the committee voted to restrict the size of the camera ready version as follows:

papers - 10 pages

panels - 3 pages

tutorial - 2 pages

workshops - 2 pages

poster - 1 page

It was agreed that we still want to follow these restrictions, but there was no view as to how we should go about enforcing it.

10. Travel Expenses

Reimbursement requests for the expenses for this meeting are to go to SM within two weeks. The travel policy is:

Hotel -- up to $80 (receipt needed)

Meals -- up to $30 (receipts needed)

Travel -- up to $100 (no receipt needed)

The meeting was then adjourned by acclamation.

Respectfully submitted,
Richard Wyatt
Secretary