CSC'96 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Feb. 15-18, 1996

Note: All sessions will be held in the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel unless noted otherwise.

Thursday, Feb. 15

8:30-10:00

Tutorial 1 - Using Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Architectures, Room 310, Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois
Tutorial 2 - Software Process Improvement: Starting the Journey, Room 411, Agapi Svolou, Carnegie Mellon Research Institute
Tutorial 3 - Management of Software Change, Room 413, Nicholas Zvegintzov, Software Management Network
Tutorial 4 - Developing Portable Software, Room 412, James D. Mooney, West Virginia University

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:00-6:30 Exhibits

10:30-12:00

Tutorial 1 - Using Design Patterns (continued), Room 310
Tutorial 2 - Software Process Improvement (continued), Room 411
Tutorial 3 - Management of Software Change (continued), Room 413
Tutorial 4 - Developing Portable Software (continued), Room 412

12:00-2:00 Lunch break

2:00-3:30

Tutorial 1 - Using Design Patterns (continued), Room 310
Tutorial 2 - Software Process Improvement (continued), Room 411
Tutorial 3 - Management of Software Change (continued), Room 413
Tutorial 5 - Computer Systems and Networks Performance Evaluation, Room 412, Mohammed S. Obaidat, CCNY

3:30-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-5:30

Tutorial 1 - Using Design Patterns (continued), Room 310
Tutorial 2 - Software Process Improvement (continued), Room 411
Tutorial 3 - Management of Software Change (continued), Room 413
Tutorial 5 - Computer Systems and Networks Performance Evaluation (continued), Room 412

6:30-8:00

Internet Town Hall, Salon E/F

Friday, Feb.16

8:30-10:00, Salon E/F

Opening Ceremony and State of the ACM Address, Stuart Zweben, ACM President
Invited speaker: Maurice Wilkes, Cambridge University
Computers Then and Now -- Part 2
Session Chair: Tony Oettinger

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:00-5:00 Exhibits

10:30-11:30

Demonstration: A National Computer Science Technical Report Library, Carl Lagoze, Cornell University, Salon E/F

10:30-12:00

History of Computing I: ENIAC, Room 305/306
Session Chair: Atsushi Akera, University of Pennsylvania
- "Early Machine Architectures, Programming, and Modern Computer Science: History and Lessons of Technical Change," Mitchell Marcus, University Of Pennsylvania
- "Eckert-Mauchly and the Defense Establishment," Pap Ndiaye, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
- "Biography and Context: John W. Mauchly in the Origins of Modern Computing," Atsushi Akera, University of Pennsylvania
Workshop: Academic Careers for Women in Computer Science, Room 411/412,
Organizer: Janice E. Cuny, University of Oregon
Panelists:
- Shiela Castaneda, Clarke College
- Janice E. Cuny, University of Oregon
- Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University
- Mary Lou Soffa, University of Pittsburgh
- Barbara Ryder, Rutgers University
Workshop: Recent Advances in Computer Chess, Room 309/310
Organizer: Monty Newborn, McGill University
Session Chair: Tony Marsland, University of Alberta
- "New Advances in Alpha-Beta Searching," Jonathan Schaeffer, Aske Plaat
- "The ABDADA Distributed Minimax Search Algorithm," Jean-Christophe Weill
- "A Shogi-Computer Test Set," Hitoshi Matsubara, Hiroyuki Iida, Jos Uiterwijk
Technical Papers: Software Engineering, Room 414/415
Session Chair: Laurie Werth, University of Texas at Austin
- "Enumerating the Risks of Reengineered Processes," Laura Lally, Hofstra University
- "Mapping a Functional Specification to an Object-Oriented Specification in Software Re-engineering," Kasi Periyasamy and Ciby Mathew, University of Manitoba
- "Merging Task-Centered UI Design with Complex System Development: A Risky Business," Yoland Reimer, Ray Ford and Nicholas Wilde, University of Montana

12:00-2:00 Lunch break

2:00-3:00, Salon E/F

Invited speaker : Richard Lipton , Princeton University, Using DNA to Compute

3:00-3:30 Coffee break

3:30-5:00

History of Computing II: Software, Room 305/306
Session Chair: Jean Sammet, Programming Language Consultant
Speakers:
- Peter J. Denning, George Mason University
- Charles Bachman, Bachman Information Systems
- Jean Sammet, Programming Language Consultant
Workshop: Academic Careers for Women in Computer Science (continued), Room 411/412
Panel: Use of C++ for CS1 and CS2, Room 309/310,
Moderator: Alan Apt, Prentice-Hall
Panelists:
- Mike Clancy, University of California at Berkeley
- Owen Astrachan, Duke University
- Joel Adams, Calvin College
- Bill Topp, University of the Pacific
Technical Papers: Artificial Intelligence, Room 414/415
Session Chair: T. Y. Lin, San Jose State University
- "Representation of Scientific Hypotheses for use by the Expert System, Research Assistant: The Setup," David Weiner and Judith Weiner, Temple University
- "Improving Opening Book Perfromance Through Modeling of Chess Opponents," Steven Walczak, University of South Florida
- "An Architecture for Planning with External Information Points in a Real-Time System," Rhonda Eller-Meshreki, Todd Saundurs and Samer Meshreki, Randolph-Macon College
Annual Meeting of Minority Computer Science Professionals, Room 413,
Convener: Herman Hughes, Michigan State University

3:30-6:30

Demonstrations, Salon E/F
- Microsoft (r) Visual Basic (r) Programming System, Christopher Flores, Visual Basic Product Manager
- Microsoft Systems Strategy, Todd Needham, Manager of University Research
- Sun Microsystems Hot Java

6:00-9:00

Poster Session

6:30-8:00

Electronic Education Event, Salon E/F , (cosponsored by the American Library Association)

8:30-11:00

SIGCSE/Computing Week Reception

Saturday, Feb.17

8:30-10:00

Tutorial 6 - Systematic Software Reuse, Room 415, Ronald J. Leach, Howard University
History of Computing III: Antecedents of Personal Computing, Salon E/F ,
Session Chair and Speaker: Alan Kay, Apple Computer, Inc.
- PARC and the development of "Mac"/workstation, overlapping window interface, Smalltalk, ethernet, laser printing, and "client-server" computing
Workshop: Applying Cryptography in Electronic Commerce, Salon K,
Organizer: Alan Sherman, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Speakers:
- Rafael Hirschfeld, CWI Amsterdam
- Clifford Neuman, University of Southern California
Technical Papers: Architecture and Algorithms, Salon J
Session Chair: Deborah Whitfield, Slippery Rock University
- "Matrix Inversion in O(log n) on a Scan-Enhanced Reconfigurable Mesh Computer," Alberto Moreira and Bryant York, Northeastern University
- "Yet Another Efficient Algorithm for Replacing the Edges of a Minimum Spanning Tree," Ali Kooshesh, Northeastern University and Robert Crawford, University of Western Kentucky
- "The PML-tree: An Efficient Parallel Spatial Index Structure for Spatial Databases," Kap Bang and Huizhu Lu, Oklahoma State University

8:30-12:00 Task Force on Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practices, Room 410
Chair: Donald Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:00-6:30 Exhibits

10:30-12:00

Tutorial 6 - Systematic Software Reuse (continued), Room 415
History of Computing IV: Hardware, Salon E/F
Session Chair: Michael Flynn
Speakers:
- Prof. Maurice Wilkes, Cambridge University, "Arithmetic on the EDSAC"
- Erich Bloch, National Science Foundation
Strategic Directions I: Science Panel, Salon L
Chair: Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University
Panelists:
- Barbara Gross
Workshop: Applying Cryptography in Electronic Commerce (continued), Salon K

12:15-1:30, Salon E/F

Turing Lecture: Manuel Blum, University of California at Berkeley

1:30-3:00 Lunch break

2:00-6:00

Demonstrations, Salon E/F
- gwTTS - A Grounds-Wide Tele-Tutoring System for the University of Virginia, Jorg Liebeherr, University of Virginia
- Dynamics of Software Development, Jim McCarthy, General Manager, Microsoft Visual C++ Team
- Microsoft Visual C++ (R), Judith LaPlante, Lead Development Environment Program Manager
- VLAB - Virtual Labs for Software Development, Munir Mandviwalla and John Nosek, Temple University

3:00-4:30

Strategic Directions II: Technology Panel, Room 302/303
Workshop: Coupling and Cohesion in Object-Oriented Design and Coding, Room 407/408,
Moderators: Joel Henry and Donald Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University
Speakers:
- Margaret Krupa, Computer Sciences Corporation
- David Kettinger, Integrated Systems Consulting Group
- Mark Franjione, Host Computing
Panel: Women and Computers: The Past to the Future, Room 414/415
Moderator: Tracy Camp, University of Alabama
Panelists:
- Denise Gurer, SRI International
- Dianne Martin, The George Washington University
- Tracy Camp, University of Alabama
Panel: Communication Technology and the Conference of the Future, Room 305/306
Moderator: Munir Mandviwalla, Temple University
Panelists:
- Ifay F. Chang, Polytechnic University
- Richard Light, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Lorne Olfman, The Claremont Graduate School
- Jeffrey Zadeh, Western Illinois University
Panel: Copyright on the Net: The USACM Perspective, Room 304
Moderator: Barbara Simons, Chair, USACM
Panelists:
- Peter J. Denning, Chair, ACM Publications Board
- Peter Jaszi, American University
- Pam Samuelson, Cornell Law School

6:00-7:00 Reception

7:00-9:00 Awards Banquet

Sunday, Feb.18

8:30-10:00

History of Computing V: Early Electronic Computing at the National Bureau of Standards, Salon E/F
Session Chair: David Rutland, Wren Publishers
Speakers:
- Harry Huskey, University of California at Santa Cruz
- Henry Tropp, Humboldt State University
- David Rutland, Wren Publishers
Strategic Directions III: Policy Panel Room 302/303
Panel: The Politics of Advanced Information Technologies, Room 304/305
Moderators: Michael Gargano and Frank LoSacco, Pace University
Workshop: Multimedia Applications, Salon L,
Organizers:
- Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University
- Dragutin Petkovic, IBM Almaden Research Center
Presentations:
- "Content Based Retrieval for Image and Video Databases," Dragutin Petkovic, IBM Almaden Research Center
- "Multimedia Messaging Systems," Arturo Pizano
- "Interactive Television Systems," Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University
Panel Discussion:"Multimedia in the 21st Century," Dragutin Petkovic, Arturo Pizano
Technical Papers: Database systems, Room 307
Session Chair: Suzy Gallagher, University of Texas at Austin
- "An Evaluation of a Client-Server Real-Time Database System," Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University
- "Ternary Relationship Decomposition and Higher Normal Form Structures Derived from Entity Relationship Conceptual Modeling," Trevor Jones, Il-Yeol Song, and E. K. Park, Duquesne University
- "A Hybrid Conceptual Clustering System," Jungsoon Yoo, Chrisila Pettey, and Sung Yoo, Middle Tennesse State University

9:30-12:00 Exhibits

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:00

History of Computing VI: The Army, the National Need and the ENIAC, Salon E/F
Session Chair: Paul H. Deitz, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground
Speakers:
- Herman H. Goldstine
- W. Barkley Fritz, BRL (retired)
- Harry L. Reed, Jr., BRL (retired)
Strategic Directions IV: Summary and Synthesis Room 302/303
Chair: Bill Wulf, University of Virginia
Workshop: Multimedia Applications (continued), Salon L
Panel: Are CS and MIS Really Different?, Room 307,
Moderator: George Kasper, Texas Tech University
Panelists:
- Dennis Adams, University of Houston
- Gordon Davis, University of Minnesota
- David Feinstein, University of South Alabama
- Jeffrey Zadeh, Western Illinois University
Panel: Ada 95 and C++: Their Role in Future Object-Oriented Development, Room 304/305, Moderator:
John Lewis, Villanova University
Panelists:
- Bill Loftus, WPL Laboratories
- Rajiv Tewari, Temple University
- Others to be announced

12:15-1:30, Salon E/F

Invited speaker: Adele Goldberg, ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc., How Do We Teach the Future System Builder