Telling Stories with Web Archives

The web has become an integral part of our lives, shaping how we get news, shop, and communicate. When critical events occur, social media and news websites cover the stories as they break and continually revise them as the story evolves. Unfortunately, much of the content around these stories are vulnerable to being lost. Thus, web archives have become a significant repository of our recent history and cultural heritage. Content from web archives can be used to fill in the gaps in the live web about the evolution of the story of an important event. This talk will explore the problem and describe our initial steps towards a solution.

Watch Michelle's keynote here!

Track 1: Education

"Recruiting Kindergarteners into STEM" by Debra Chapman

"Using the Raspberry Pi in Education" by J.K. Sherrod and Zach Guzman

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Track 2: Research

"An Empirical Evaluation of Myna - A Vocal User Interface" by Amber Wagner, Jeff Gray and Jeff Carver

"Variable-Structure Dynamic Neural Networks with Affective Systems" by Catherine Schuman and J.Douglas Birdwell

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Track 3: Industry

"Marketing and Drupal for the Non-Profit Sector" by Amanda Brown

"Achievements in Harmony and Balance" by Crystal Davis

"Combining Work and School to Get the Most Out of Your Education" by Sandra McCroskey

"National Center for Women & Information Techology - Sit with Me" by Jameela Belyeu Pickens

"Pay No Attention to the Man in the Power Suit" by Christy Watson

"Preparing for Your Future" by Brittany Johnson

"Resources for Empowering Women in Technology: TTU's TWEET Retreat" by Matilda Lane and Laura Sharpe

"Starting a Women in Computing Club" by Kylie Moden

"WiCyS: An Effort to Broaden Participation of Women in Cybersecurity" by Ambareen Siraj and Lisa Matlock

Track 1: Research

"Assessing the Use of Auditory Graphs for Middle School Students with Vision Impairment" by Yee Chieh Chew

"Information Retrieval and Conceptual Blending" by Rania Hodhod

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Track 2: Graduate School and Research

"The Role of Computing in Cancer Research" by Serena Pham

"Undergraduate Experiences that Motivate Students to Pursue Advanced Degrees in Computing-Related Disciplines" by Chelsea Johnson and Marguerite Doman

Track 1: K-12

"K-12 Teacher Roundtable" by Jill Pala

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Track 2: Undergraduate

"JMU WiT Club: Engaging Diverse Undergraduate Women in Technology" by Farzana Rahman and Marissa Halpert

Cloud Computing: 24/7

Driven by the need to reduce the total cost of ownership of increasingly more demanding workloads, cloud computing is being rapidly adopted across the marketplace. Within companies, private clouds are offering a more efficient way to manage and use private data centers. In the broader marketplace, public clouds offer the promise of buying computing capabilities based on a utility model, buying compute resources on demand and billed by usage rather than requiring capital expenditures that must be planned years in advance.

To deliver on these promises, cloud computing relies heavily on virtualization techniques and standardized environments to simplify provision and administration. As systems users are racing to move to the cloud, customer expectations on cloud availability and the cost of computing in a cloud are radically changing system requirements and data center operation.

For system design, virtualization efficiency and modularity in provisioning are becoming of paramount importance. Metrics such as virtual machines per core, per socket and per Watt are the new metrics that must be optimized for. Where dividing scale-up systems into multiple virtual machines was a previous sweet spot for optimizing virtual machine management, cloud computing must address the creation, operation and migration of virtual machines across system boundaries.

The standardization, virtualization, modularity and cross-system management capabilities also offer unique opportunities to provide system resilience: as virtual machines are becoming first class citizens, resilience techniques can build on a well-defined framework for providing recovery measures for replicating unresponsive services, and recovering failed services to respond to disaster scenarios.

Join us for a bonfire and s'mores by the gorgeous Lake Guntersville. Bring your camping chairs and blankets.

Track 1: Education

"Resources & Opportunities for Women in Technology" by Ruthe Farmer

The National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) provides free research-based resources and programs to build capacity for people to implement change, raise awareness, and reach out to critical populations. Attend this session to learn how to leverage NCWIT resources to recruit, retain and advance more women within your CS programs and institution.  Participants will receive hard copies of NCWIT resources including: How to Create and Sustain a Women in Computing Group on Your Campus, Top 10 Ways You Can Retain Students in Computing, Institutional Barriers & Their Effects: How can I talk to colleagues about these issues?

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Track 2: Career

"Building a Business with a CS Degree" by Amy Henderson

As the world moves to a more mobile and remote workforce, becoming your own boss is easier than ever.  Becoming an independent consultant or starting your own business is appealing to many, but that lifestyle comes with trade offs.  In this session, I will discuss my path to business ownership, which has come with amazing freedoms and tremendous responsibilities.  I want to share some of the details that I wish my 20-something year old self would have already known - from advice on how to get started to mistakes not to make along the way. 

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Track 3: Community

"Lean In Circles" by Denise Koessler

Research suggests that we are up to six times more creative in a group than we are by ourselves. We are more effective when we are being encouraged, on one hand, and challenged, on the other hand. The combination of both is where the magic happens. That is what groups provide. And that is what circles provide.

This session is an official LEAN IN Circles Kickoff event. We will start by learning a bit about LEANIN.Org; then we are going to focus on LEAN IN Circles - small peer groups that meet regularly to learn and share together. This session will introduce what Circles are and how they work. Then we’ll do a connection activity to help simulate the Circle experience. Finally, we will go through the next steps for starting or joining your own Circle. This session's goal is that everyone walks away excited to start or join a Circle.

Are you in?

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"It's Cheaper than Therapy: Building an 'ELIZA' Psychotherapist App in Windows 8" by Jennifer Marsman

In introductory artificial intelligence classes, every good geekette learns about ELIZA, a program which simulates a Rogerian psychotherapist using pattern-matching techniques. For example, a comment like "I hate my job" might get an answer like "Why do you hate your job?" Eliza was famous for being one of the first programs to pass the Turing test, meaning that the dialogue was realistic enough that users could not tell if it was a human or a machine speaking back to them. I will introduce these basic concepts and show an implementation of Eliza as a Windows Store app for Windows 8.  I’ll also share how students can get free access to the Windows Store, and differentiate their resume from the crowd by publishing an app in an app store!

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"Enhance your Software Development Skills through Open Source Participation" by Rose Robinson

Many students gain industry skills through internships. This gives them the opportunity to gain “real-world” experience with a potential future employer.  However, most students don’t realize that open source participation and contributions can be just as important in landing their dream job.  There are many open source organizations that are in dire need of volunteers to help them bring their projects into full products.  Additionally, many of the open source projects are Projects for Good helping humanitarian efforts around the world and/or participation in outreach for computer science.  One in particular is Google Summer of Code (GSoC) who is celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2014. They are really looking for great participation particularly from women and underrepresented minorities.  This talk will discuss GSoC 2014, various opportunities there are in open source, and the benefits of participating and contributing can boost your career search instantly. 

Download Rose's Presentation.