2009 Research Schedule

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Date Task Description
1/30/09 Update research plan Merge ongoing tasks from last year, identify target conferences, grants and other events, schedule deadlines for research tasks
2/01/09 Prepare SNITCH development plan Finalize plan for SNITCH research and development. Coordinate tasks with Joe Bruno and Purushotham Ch for completing working Java app version, prototype web app version, additional candidate identification algorithms. Identify and evaluate available search APIs.
2/02/09 CRADA meeting prep Review CRADA proposal notes and prepare for Thursday, Feb. 5 meeting. Identify research tasks.
2/15/09 RSVP for LIKES Workshop See entry below (March 19) about Living in the Knowledge Society, and RSVP about it. See "Conferences & Journals" mail folder for original invite.
2/22/09 Prep paper templates Prepare paper templates for:
* SOA course paper
* Agile Research paper
2/23/09 Find out format of SIGCSE presentation Find out the format of the SIGCSE Special Projects presentation. Email from Feb. 16 is unanswered so far.
2/23/09 Outline draft of SOA teaching paper Complete an outline draft for SOA course paper, for submission to CCSCE or Worldcomp.
2/26/09 Develop SHAPE research plan with Vijay Develop plan of research for the proposed research tasks for the SHAPE project.
2/27/09 CRADA tasks Submit CRADA agreement first section to Milton (and legal dept) for evaluation. Schedule next telephone meeting.
3/01/09 Alpha version of SNITCH complete Finish development of alpha release version of SNITCH and put online. Determine if renaming is needed, such as CiteFinder (same tool, different positioning). Additional use is by authors to find instances of plagiarism of their own work online. Investigate refactoring as AJAX web app instead to make use of newer Google search API.
3/04/09 to 3/07/09 SIGCSE Conference SIGCSE 2009 Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Green computing paper, SNITCH software presentation.
3/05/09 Complete CMS comparison For the SHAPE project, complete initial CMS comparison and prepare initial report template.
3/10/09 Research support for Wii remote & accessibility Support Andy Miller's research. Identify potential research directions and publication outlets based on his current research goals and activities. Meeting at 4pm on Tues. March 10, 2009.
3/10/09 Prep game demos for tech fair Prepare videos and executables for Villanova Technology Fair on March 12, 2009. Update web site with demos and downloads, put all game executables on memory stick for Najib to put onto laptop.
3/12/09 Villanova Technology Fair Game course demos at Technology Fair. Need game demos, Jing captures and poster.
3/16/09 CRADA tasks Follow-up on review of CRADA agreement first section to Milton (and legal dept) for evaluation. Review meeting notes, generate an initial research plan.
3/18/09 HP Innovations in Education grant opportunity Devise one or more fundable ideas to apply for HP Innovations in Education grant. Table PC, trivia idea, distance learning, Blackboard, matching funds, other ideas. No good ideas this year.
3/19/09 MultiConf-09 submission deadline Submission deadline for MultiConf-09, with applicable conferences in software engineering, enterprise information systems and web technologies, and others. Possible candidates:
* Automated web form testing for survey and data entry forms
* Nanocomputing research
Nothing this year
3/19/09 to 3/20/09 LIKES Workshop Living in the Knowledge Society workshop hosted at Villanova, part of the LIKES research project. Cannot attend due to schedule conflict.
3/20/09 Devise model using NanoEngineer or Processing Create a model for a mechanical, nanoscale logic gate using NanoEngineer and determine capability to replicate, connect and ultimately generate underlying file representation using a nanocompiler tool. Initial model of NOT gate produced, being extended and modularized.
3/23/09 Worldcomp submission deadline Submission deadline for papers to Worldcomp 2009. Deadline was Feb. 25, 2009, then March 11, 2009, and finally March 23, 2009.
Submission:
* Agile Research (Sandhya, Arun) (SERP 2009)
3/24/09 Assist Potluri with CPATH poster preparation Assist Potluri with preparation of a poster for ITiCSE 2009, "CPATH: Distributed Expertise - Collaborating with Other Disciplines".
3/27/09 Identify grant candidates Identify potential grant opportunities (CPATH, CCLI, etc.) for various research projects.
4/07/09 NSF grant writing planning meeting Meet with Vijay and Mujtaba to discuss possibilities and intentions for grant proposal to the Advanced Technological Education  (ATE) grant program.
4/08/09 Prepare & submit proposal for Vital presentation Prepare and submit a presentation proposal (30 or 60 mins) about the CPATH grant, distributed expertise and the game course for the Vital "Teaching and Learning Strategies 2009" conference at Villanova on May 14, 2009 from 9:30am to 4pm. Submission deadline is April 15, 2009.
4/14/09 Initial draft of SOA course paper Complete an initial draft using Vijay's survey data and our original proposal, and send to Vijay for his pass at it. Submission to CCSCE 2009.
4/20/09 CCSCE submission deadline Deadline for submission of papers to CCSCE 2009 (call for papers). Candidates:
* SOA course paper with Vijay
4/29/09 NSF Nano. Undergrad. Edu. grant deadline Deadline for proposals to Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering grant program. Possible application to our computational nanotechnology modeling, simulation and compiler research.
5/12/09 Worldcomp 2009 registration & final draft deadline Final deadline for registration and submission of final, camera ready draft to Worldcomp 2009 (SERP 2009 conference).
5/22/09 NSF CCLI grant proposal deadline Submit proposal with Vijay Gehlot to NSF CCLI program.
5/26/09 Additional Worldcomp paper deadline Submit additional paper to Worldcomp, select appropriate conference, for long-version of SOA course paper with Vijay Gehlot. Length limit is 7 pages.
5/29/09 Report on SOA Course for VITAL Report due to Carol Weiss on VITAL mini-grant that supported development of SOA Course.
6/08/09 Submission deadline TFM 2009 Submission deadline for TFM 2009 conference, Nov. 2-6, 2009, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Details about use of formal methods in SOA course to make formal methods (mathematical modeling) concrete using practical application.
6/15/09 Book travel to Worldcomp Book flight, hotel, shuttle, parking for Worldcomp. Tentative itinerary, depart PHL on July 12 in evening, return from LAS on redeye on July 16. Try again to use Villanova's approved travel agent first? (Tried, too cumbersome.) Note to self: book earlier next year.
6/24/09 Final camera-ready version of FECS paper due Final version of the SOA course paper for Worldcomp due (really July 24 is the deadline, but no need to wait till then).
7/01/09 Submission deadline for IASTED PDCS Submission deadline for papers for PDCS 2009, TAT 2009, RA 2009, ISC 2009, and SEA 2009. Potential papers are:
* Wii controller assistive interface (TAT 2009)
* Agile research (if new) (SEA 2009)
* Nanocomputer component modeling (PDCS 2009)
* CRADA-related research (PDCS 2009)
Did not submit this year.
7/03/09 Final version of CCSCE paper due Deadline for submission of final, camera-ready (or ready to be formatted into camera ready format) version of paper and copyright form and registration due for CCSCE 2009. Submitted final version on 7/21/09 with gracious permission.
7/03/09 CATE & HCI 2009 submission deadline Submission deadline for IASTED Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2009) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2009) conferences, November 22-24, 2009, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Did not submit this year.
* SNITCH paper (CATE 2009)
* Automated web form validator (CATE 2009)
* Wii controller assistive interface (HCI 2009)
7/10/09 Magic School Mini-Camp Annual Villanova Magic School one day mini-camp, July 10, 2009.
7/13/09 to 7/16/09 Worldcomp 2009 Worldcomp 2009 multi-conference with 22 conferences, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 13 to 16, 2009.
* July 12 - travel
* July 13 - keynote K. Eric Drexler (9:45-10:40am)
* July 14 - Agile paper presentation (5:20-5:40pm), Pete's tutorial on Alice & Greenfoot
* July 16 - SOA course presentation (6:20-6:40pm), redeye flight home
8/25/09 Revise nanocompiler journal paper Revise and submit nanocompiler journal paper. Candidates: JOS, IJNT, JCTN, NRL, ACTA Press journals. Also extend Cell Matrix paper for journal submission. Conferences for future include: NANOARCH. Recent journal candidate: GJCST.
8/25/09 Outlines of SIGCSE CPATH paper(s) Prepare SIGCSE format paper(s) for our CPATH distributed expertise work and for the specific game course work.
9/06/09 Submitted GJCST nanocompiler paper Revised nanocompiler journal paper, submitted to: GJCST.
9/11/09 SIGCSE 2010 paper & workshop deadline Paper and workshop submission deadline for SIGCSE 2010 symposium, March 10-13, 2010, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Theme is "Making Contact."
* Distributed Expertise, approaches, ideas
* Games course as cross-institutional course
9/30/09 SIGCSE Reviews due Reviewer assignments due for SIGCSE 2010.
10/04/09 Initial outline of banquet speech for CCSCE Draft an initial outline for the CCSCE 2009 banquet speech (for Oct. 30, 2009) and performance. Elements to incorporate: straitjacket, sawing in half, levitation, wrist twist, other tricks to teach, all with CS education tie-in.
10/30/09
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10/31/09		 CCSCE Conference Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC), 25th Annual Eastern Conference 2009. October 30 and 31, 2009 Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, "Treats and Some Tricks in Computer Science Education".
11/02/09 SIGCSE 2010 poster & video deadline Poster and video submission deadline for SIGCSE 2010 symposium, March 10-13, 2010, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Theme is "Making Contact."
* 101 Uses for an Algorithms Book (video)
11/20/09 Submit paper to CCSCNE Submit paper on distributed expertise based on SIGCSE paper, to 15th Annual Conference of the Northeast region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, CCSCNE 2010.

Publications in 2009

  1. Paper: Agile Research Methods, Worldcomp 2009.
  2. Poster: CPATH: Distributed Expertise - Collaborating with other disciplines, ITiCSE 2009.
  3. Paper: Multidisciplinary SOA course, conference paper, CCSCE 2010.
  4. Grant: NSF CCLI grant proposal, SOAing Seeds of STEM, with Vijay Gehlot. (not funded)
  5. Paper: Design and Assessment of a Multidisciplinary Course in Service Oriented Architecture, Worldcomp 2009.
  6. Paper: Design of a speech recognition to assist hearing impaired students in the classroom, Assistive Technology journal article.
  7. Paper: Making formal methods relevant using modeling and simulation in SOA course, TFM 2009.
  8. Paper: Compiling Mechanical Nanocomputer Components, GJCST
  9. Book: Procedure Restructuring for Ambitious Optimization, LAP publishing
  10. Paper: Computing Across Disciplines and Institutions Using a Distributed Expertise Approach, SIGCSE 2010 paper
  11. Video: 101 Uses for an Algorithms Book, submitted to SIGCSE 2010.
  12. Paper: Computing Across Disciplines and Institutions Using a Distributed Expertise Approach, CCSCNE 2010 paper

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last update: 01/18/2010