| Date | Task | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1/25/05 | SIGCSE powerpoint | Design basic slides for SIGCSE talk |
| 1/26/05 | literacy journals | Investigate more about what technology literacy journals there are out there |
| 2/11/05 | JILP paper 1st draft | Complete 1st draft of research paper for submission, get to Lori Pollock (hopefully) for editorial advisement |
| 2/13/05 | JILP submission | Submit paper to JILP |
| 2/18/05 | SIGCSE powerpoint | Final draft of talk |
| 2/24/05 | SIGCSE presentation | Present talk at conference |
| 3/17/05 | Finish prep of Internet Safety talk | Need Powerpoint, handouts, etc. (copies?) - bring projector |
| 3/19/05 | Present Internet Safety talk | at Parenting conference in New Castle, Delaware |
| Spring | Teaching, 3rd year review dossier, ACTLab, Sigma Xi, misc. committees, update research plan, advise on numerous research projects | |
| 7/01/05 | Submitted PDCS (IASTED) paper | "Towards Compilation for Nanocomputer Architectures" |
| 7/14/05 | Outline of jFAST paper | Write outline of jFAST paper for SIGCSE (5 pages) |
| 7/15/05 | Outline of SNITCH paper | Write outline of SNITCH paper for SIGCSE (5 pages) |
| 7/19/05 | Outline of Labyrinth paper | Game design framework paper (Journal of Game Development, potential), intro about game development as hottest area of computer science merging with entertainment, driving force beyond technological advancement, need for place for students who want to work on the underlying algorithm and logic side of game development to gain experience at an early stage, Design - discuss the architecture of the framework, explain extensibility, how to replace various parts, what sort of educational goals are supported, 3 examples of extensions, potential for use in game development course or AI course or elsewhere?, how it could be used in an interdisciplinary course combining art and science students, Conclusions about potential to be a good learning platform, future plans. |
| 8/05/05 | First drafts for SIGCSE papers | Have first drafts done for ALMOST all SIGCSE papers |
| 8/18/05 | Next draft of Labyrinth paper | Finish next draft of Labyrinth paper, send back to Joe for comment, etc. |
| 8/19/05 | Next draft of jFAST paper | Finish next draft of jFAST paper, send back to Tim for comment, etc. |
| 9/01/05 | Outline of ACT Lab paper | Write outline of ACT Lab paper (5 pages), what is the angle? Extends earlier company-based approach to software engineering by forming an ongoing research lab that nurtures student projects beyond class, and beyond graduation. Can use jFAST, Labyrinth, DIMT, Snitch, women in CS, speech recognition in classroom, misc. others. |
| 9/07/05 | Submit Labyrinth paper | SIGCSE |
| 9/07/05 | Finish draft of ACT Lab paper | SIGCSE |
| 9/08/05 | Submit jFAST paper | SIGCSE |
| 9/09/05 | Submit SNITCH paper | SIGCSE |
| 9/09/05 | Submit ACT Lab paper | SIGCSE |
| 9/09/05 | SIGCSE submission deadline | SIGCSE submissions deadline |
| 9/15/05 | Submit Towards Nanocompilation paper | Revise "Towards Compilation for Nanocomputer Architectures", submit to CGO-4 (4th Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, March 26-29, 2006, New York). Submission deadline is 9/16/2005, Notification by 11/04/05. |
| 9/16/05 | Submit pre-proposal for magic school | Assist Mary-Angela in writing and preparation of grant pre-proposal. |
| 10/07/05 | SIGCSE paper reviews | Deadline to complete review of SIGCSE papers. |
| 10/12/05 | Rewrite JILP paper |
Revise JILP paper for resubmission, deadline is Oct. 15, need additional
experiments with larger benchmarks. Backup plan is: paper for ACTA Press International Journal of Computers and Applications (8 page limit). |
| 10/15/05 | Submission deadline | JILP submission deadline for next issue, started submission 10/13, finalized on 10/15 |
| 11/07/05 | SIGCSE author notification | Accept/reject notification (SIGCSE 2006), 3 out of 4 papers accepted (ACT Lab, SNITCH, jFAST yes, Labyrinth no) |
| 11/26/05 | JILP initial notification | Notification of JILP paper status (www.jilp.org) Still pending as of 12/30/05 (11 weeks). |
| 12/01/05 | SIGCSE final submission | Deadline for camera-ready final version of papers |
| 12/30/05 | Speech Recognition paper rough draft | Complete initial rough draft of RESNA paper, including preliminary title, abstract, background, and notes or placeholders for tool, experiment, result and conclusions. Prepare in RESNA format (Word doc, but must submit as RTF) |
last update: 12/31/05