Graduate Student Workshop on Computing 2008
Workshop Schedule
| 8:45-9:00 | Opening Remarks | Amr El Abbadi, Chair of UCSB Computer Science Department | ||
| Morning Session | ||||
| 9:00-10:00 | Industry Panel: Emerging Technologies and Challenges for the Web | Arnab Bhattacharjee, Director of Engineering for Yahoo! Search Technology Herb Wildfeuer, Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder of RightScale Simon Towers, Director of Adobe's Advanced Technology Labs |
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| 10:00-11:15 | Paper Session 1 | |||
| 10:00-10:15 | Catching Elephants with Mice: Sparse Sampling for Monitoring Networks | Sorabh Gandhi | ||
| 10:15-10:30 | Data Stream Operators Under the Scanner: Challenges and Insights towards Efficient Parallelization | Sudipto Das | ||
| 10:30-10:45 | Symbolic Encoding of String Lengths | Fang Yu | ||
| 10:45-11:00 | Fast Annotation and Semi-Automatic Model Construction with a Single-Point Laser Range Finder | Jason Wither | ||
| 11:00-11:15 | Mergeable-Cache: Exploiting Data-Similar Executions in Multicore Processors | Susmit Biswas | ||
| 11:15-12:00 | Keynote 1: Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development Tool | Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google | ||
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch/Poster Session | |||
| Afternoon Session | ||||
| 1:00-1:45 | Keynote 2: Semantics and the Future of Search | Dr. Barney Pell, Partner, Search Strategist and Evangelist, Microsoft Live Search Powerset | ||
| 1:45-03:15 | Paper Session 2 | |||
| 1:45-02:00 | Whiteboard Computation: Towards A Sketch-Centric Operating Environment | Ryan Dixon | ||
| 2:00-02:15 | MyDepressedSpace: Classification and Search on MySpace Pages | Kathy Macropol | ||
| 2:15-02:30 | Are Your Votes Really Counted? Testing the Security of Real-world Electronic Voting Systems | Marco Cova | ||
| 2:30-02:45 | Quantum Online Memory Checking | Qingqing Yuan | ||
| 2:45-03:00 | Small Cache of Large Ranges: Hardware Methods for Efficiently Searching, Storing, and Updating Big Dataflow Tags | Mohit Tiwari | ||
| 3:00-03:15 | Closing Remarks | Cha Lee | ||
| 3:30-4:00 | Walk to Beach | |||
| Beach BBQ | Adobe Best Paper & Best Poster Award Presentation | Petko Bogdanov |