Collaboration in Computer Sciences

Friday, October 28, 2011: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room B2 (San Jose Convention Center)
Chair:
Ann Gates, PhD, Professor and Chair, Associate Vice President for Research, University of Texas at El Paso

Description: This session highlights collaborations of an industry-academia partnership that supports research on parallel programming to increase workplace productivity, a multi-disciplinary effort that focuses on improved medical imaging for cancer diagnosis, and a Human-Computer Interaction project that targets improving collaboration among educators.



8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM
A Library for Hyperspectral Imaging Algorithms for Cancer Detection on the GPU
Nayda Santiago, PhD , Associate Professor , University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
9:00 AM
Engaging Participants in the Ensemble Computing Pathway
Daniel Garcia, PhD , Lecturer , University of California, Berkeley
9:25 AM