FECS'14 & SWWS'14: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 Schedule

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06:45a - 05:00p:  REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

SESSION 3-FECS:   TOOLS AND SYSTEMS, CLASS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INSTRUCTIONAL
                  DESIGN + LEARNING MODELS + WEB BASED INSTRUCTION, ONLINE SYSTEMS,
                  DISTANCE LEARNING, MOBILE SYSTEMS + SOCIAL NETWORKS
                  XXX Co-Chairs: Dr. Alistair McEwan; University of Leicester, UK;
                                 Dr. Don Schwartz; Marist College, Poughkeepsie,
                                 New York, USA
                  XXX July 22, 2014 (Tuesday); 08:00am - 12:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 3)

08:00 - 08:20am:  An Interactive Multimedia Website for Teaching and Learning
                  Engineering Design and Manufacturing
                  Longhan Xie, Ruxu Du
                  Chinese University of Hong Kong, P. R. China;
                  South China University of Technology, P. R. China

08:20 - 08:40am:  Computational Quiz Generation
                  Daniel Hoffman, Felix Gianelia, Ming Lu
                  Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria,
                  Victoria, BC, Canada

08:40 - 09:00am:  WUTexter: A Classroom Interaction Tool for Anybody Who Can Text
                  Benjamin Murray, Hunter Latourette, Ron K. Cytron
                  Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
                  Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:  Prototype Development of Integrated Class Assistance Application
                  Using Smart Phone
                  Kazuya Murata, Takayuki Fujimoto
                  Graduate School of Engineering, Toyo University, Saitama, Japan

09:20 - 09:40am:  Technology Enhanced Learning for Computer Science Education: A
                  Regional STEM Widening Access Case Study
                  Roy Sterritt, Julie Campbell, Raymond Bond, George Moore,
                  Giuseppe Trombino, Simon Fraser, Brian Cleland, Paul Hanna
                  Faculty of Computing and Engineering, University of Ulster,
                  Northern Ireland, UK

09:40 - 10:00am:  Adequacy Of an Immersive Environment as a Teaching-Learning Tool
                  Applying Experimental 3D Limen Method
                  Diego-Mauricio Torres-Arias, Trefftz Helmuth
                  Instituto Netsys, Colombia;  Universidad EAFIT, Colombia

10:00 - 10:20am:  Offering Service Learning Projects in a New Environment
                  Donald R. Schwartz
                  School of  Computer Science and Mathematics, Marist College,
                  Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

10:20 - 10:40am:  BREAK

10:40 - 11:00am:  Flipping the Classroom by Using Cloud Services and Third Party
                  Online Courses in Traditional Class Settings Enables All Computer
                  Science Students an Equal Education
                  David J. Powell, Joel Hollingsworth
                  Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, USA

11:00 - 11:20am:  Health Journal Web Service Using Cloud Computing
                  Ryan Hausen, Samuel Sambasivam, Simon H. Lin
                  Department of Computer Science, College of Liberal Arts and
                  Sciences, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California, USA

11:20 - 11:40am:  Development of Prototype System for the Art Appreciation Support
                  System to Integrate Visitors into Art Objects in Real Time
                  Koji Fujita, Takayuki Fujimoto
                  Graduate School of Engineering, Toyo University, Japan

11:40 - 12:00pm:  A 31-Year Record of CS Enrollment At a Single Urban Public
                  Institution
                  Aaron Tenenbaum, Yedidyah Langsam
                  Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm:  Collaborative Software Development: The Thomas Paine Encyclopedia
                  Lubomir Ivanov
                  Iona College, New Rochelle, New York, USA

12:20 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 4-FECS:   PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, STUDIES AND RELATED ISSUES + TUTORIAL
                  XXX Chair: Dr. Irene Polycarpou; UCLan Cyprus (University of Central
                         Lancashire), Cyprus
                  July 22, 2014 (Tuesday); 01:20pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 3)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  The Effect Of Changing Programming Language to Student Success
                  in Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum
                  Ebru Celikel Cankaya
                  University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Mining Student Time Management Patterns in Programming Projects
                  Dale E. Parson And Allison Seidel
                  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, USA

02:00 - 03:00pm:  TUTORIAL:
                  USING WEKA TO MINE TEMPORAL WORK PATTERNS OF PROGRAMMING STUDENTS
                  Dr. Dale E. Parson
                  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, USA


03:00 - 03:40pm:  BREAK & POSTER/DISCUSSION SESSION B-FECS-SWWS
                  July 22, 2014 (Tuesday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways of Ballrooms 1-5)


03:40 - 04:20pm:  INVITED LECTURE:
                  A PRIMITIVE ARTIFICIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX FOR COGNITIVE SELF-
                  REGULATION IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORMS
                  Dr. James A. Crowder
                  Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services
                  Aurora, Colorado, USA; Chief Mentor/Scientist of the Automation,
                  Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Research Lab., Alexandria
                  School of Innovation, Douglas County, Colorado, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

04:20 - 06:00pm:  PANEL DISCUSSION:
                  THOUGHTS, LANGUAGE, AND MEMORIES FOR HUMANS vs. ARTIFICIALLY
                  INTELLIGENT ENTITIES
                  PANEL CHAIR: Dr. James A. Crowder; Chief Engineer, Raytheon
                  Intelligence, Information and Services, USA
                  PANELISTS:
                  Prof. Victor Raskin; Distinguished Professor, English & Linguistics
                  Professor, Computer Science (courtesy); Professor, Computer and
                  Information Technology (courtesy); Associate Director & Charter
                  Fellow, CERIAS; Purdue University, USA;
                  Dr. Julia M. Taylor; Computer & Information Technology; Fellow,
                  CERIAS; Purdue University, USA;
                  Shelli Friess; Cognitive Psychologist, Relevant Counseling, USA;
                  Dr. John Carbone; Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Intelligence,
                  Information and Services, Aurora, Colorado, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)


06:00 - 09:00pm:  TUTORIALS + PANEL DISCUSSIONS + ADDITIONAL INVITED LECTURES

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