Tyler Hutchison presenting at MICS 2007
This Saturday, 4 December 2010, will be the 25th UMM Computer Science Seminar II (Senior Seminar) Conference in Sci 2200 from 1:30-5pm. Come join us to hear six talks on a wide variety of cool topics. Each presentation will summarize contemporary work in an active research area in computer science. The goal is for the talks to accessible to anyone who’s had Data Structures; large parts of the talks should be accessible to most anyone, but there will be some fairly technical detail in places.
This is an important event, both for the discipline and for the participants, as it represents the senior capstone experience of six of our fine students. Come support the team, and learn some cool things in the process!
This semester’s schedule includes two presentations on designing interfaces: Using your thoughts to control a computer, and designing computer instruments to allow for highly sophisticated performance. Two talks will be on extracting important information from the huge amounts of data available on-line: How on-line stores make meaningful recommendations based on your past preferences, and how to automatically decide if a movie review is generally positive or negative. One talk will be on macros, which effectively allow one to extend a programming language with new constructs, and how to then do so in a way that doesn’t introduce new kinds of errors. The remaining talk will be on ways to extend the functionality of existing networks by overlaying new logical network architectures on the existing infrastructure.
The full schedule, with names, titles, and times, is below. The links are to PDF versions of the various papers; you can also download the full proceedings as a single document.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1:30pm | Stephen Adams | An overview of brain-computer interfaces |
| 2:00pm | Justin Mullin | Designing professional instruments for computer music performance |
| 2:30pm | Martin Powers | Methods to improve the accuracy of recommender systems |
| 3:00pm | 30 minute break | |
| 3:30pm | Brian Goslinga | What macros are and how to write correct ones |
| 4:00pm | Jacob Thebault-Spieker | Are distributed peer-to-peer overlay networks worth the effort? |
| 4:30pm | Eugene Butler | Automated sentiment analysis |
If you can’t come for the whole conference, you’re more than welcome to come for as many presentations as your schedule allows. The door to the room will probably be closed, but we’ll keep the trains running on time, so you should be able to wait for the applause at the end of a talk at the half hour and then sneak in between talks.
For those unfamiliar with our Senior Seminar course, the students do a substantial review of some peer-reviewed literature in some area of computer science. This review is then turned into a review article, which are collected together and published as the proceedings of the conference. In the conference the students give a 20-25 minute talk reviewing the material they studied. These talks are geared to people at roughly the data structures level or higher; many of the talks are quite accessible to a lay audience, although some will include some technical detail that may be unfamiliar to people with little computing background.
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