Ohio Celebration

of Women In

Computing


PROGRAM


 

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Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWIC) will be held the April 22-23 weekend at the Deer Creek Resort and Conference Center, located near Mt. Sterling, Ohio.  Attendees will be women majoring in computing fields and enrolled in universities and colleges from all over Ohio.


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Friday, April 22, 2005

4- 5p 

Registration & Snacks – Scarlet Oak Room

·        Research Posters [Details]  – Scarlet Oak Room

5-6:30

Career Breakouts – Research vs Industry

Scarlet Oak & Pin Oak Rooms

Industry Careers Panel - Scarlet Oak Room

 

·        Teresa Dean, Development Program Manager, IBM [bio]

·        Velda Otey, Managing Director, Information Technology and Shared Services Applications, American Electric Power Company [bio]

·        Svetlana Verthein, Program Manager, Windows Service Division, Microsoft [bio]

 

Academia Careers Panel - Pin Oak Room

 

·        Cathy Bishop-Clark, professor, Computer and Information Technology Department, Miami University, Middletown [bio]

·        Susan Hohenberger - Ph.D. student, MIT [bio]

·        Annu Prabhakar - Assistant Professor of Information Technology, College of Applied Science, University of Cincinnati [bio]

·        Jody Tims, Professor, Baldwin-Wallace College [bio]

 

7-8:30

Dinner/ Cookout

9-12

BoFs – traditional and non-traditional

Saturday, April 23, 2005

8-9a

Breakfast

9-10:15

 

Keynote Speaker - Janis Mitchell, President/CEO,

Info-Fortress Solutions

Scarlet Oak Room

Janis Mitchell had been involved in the technology industry for over eleven years before being named Small Business Person of the Year 2003 by the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.

Business First magazine named Mitchell as one of Columbus’s Most Remarkable Women in 2004 for her accomplishments and involvement in the community while growing her company. [read more...]

10:30-12

Parallel Technical Sessions

Scarlet Oak & Pin Oak Rooms

 

Session A – Scarlet Oak Room

·        Microgravity Study of the Cardiovascular System, Kathy Liszka, University of Akron [abstract]

·        A Whale of a Problem: Usability Studies of Web-based Delivery of Task Instructions, Julie Barnes, Bowling Green State University [abstract]

·        Using Distance-Based and Information Theoretic Semantic Relatedness Measures on Semantic Web Ontologies, Valerie Cross, Miami University  [abstract]

Session B – Pin Oak Room

·        FINA a Fast Index News Archive, Mariana Barca, Guadalupe Canahuate, Laura Stoia and Rodi Tountcheva, Ohio State University [abstract]

·        6 Sigma and IT, Rodi Tountcheva, Ohio State University [abstract]

·        Analyzing Distributed Java Programs, Mariana Barca, Ohio State University [abstract]

12-1

Lunch

1-2

Wrap-up