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Program
Slide presentations for many of the talks from the symposium are now available!
In the program below, many talk titles provide links to the presentation slides from the respective talk.
The program for the symposium is shown below and is also available as a PDF file.
Unless specified, all sessions of the Symposium will be held in the History Building, Room 200-203.
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Wednesday, March 26
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9:00am
- 10:40am: Session
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Session
chair: Mehran Sahami
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9:00am-9:10am:
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Introduction
to the Symposium
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Mehran
Sahami (Stanford)
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9:10am-10:10am:
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Invited
Talk:
Technology Empowerment and the TeRK Project
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Illah
Nourbakhsh (CMU)
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10:10am-10:40am:
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Robotics
and AI as a Motivator for the Attraction and Retention of Computer Science
Undergraduates in Canada
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John
Anderson, Jacky Baltes (Univ. of Manitoba)
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10:40am
- 11:00am: Break
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11:00am
- 12:30pm: Session
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Session
Chair: Zachary Dodds
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11:00am-11:30am:
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Robotics
As A Component Of A General Education Course
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Susan
Imberman, Sarah Zelikovitz (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
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11:30am-12:00pm:
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Engaging
Computing Students with AI and Robotics
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Deepak
Kumar, Doug Blank (Bryn Mawr), Tucker Balch, Keith O'Hara, Mark Guzdial
(Georgia Tech), Stewart Tansley (Microsoft Research)
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12:00pm-12:30pm:
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AI,
AIBO and ART: Inspiring Interaction with Computer Science
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Sheila
Tejada (CUNY)
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12:30pm
- 2:00pm: Lunch
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2:00pm
- 3:30pm: Session
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Session
Chair: Illah Nourbakhsh
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2:00pm-2:20pm:
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Restructuring
the Introductory Computer Science Course with Topics from AI
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Timothy
Huang (Middlebury)
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2:20pm-2:40pm:
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Improving
CS Student Retention with Intelligent Agents
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Fang
Tang, Robert W. Kerbs, Gilbert S. Young (Cal Poly, Pomona)
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2:40pm-3:00pm:
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SpelBots:
Using Autonomous Robotics to Inspire Women to Participate in Computer Science
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Andrew
B. Williams, Whitney O'Banner (Spelman)
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3:00pm-3:20pm:
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The
ARTSI Alliance: Recruiting Underrepresented Students to Computer Science and
Robotics to Improve Society
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Andrew
B. Williams (Spelman), David S. Touretzky (CMU), LaVonne Manning (Univ. of
District of Columbia), Jessie J. Walker (Univ. of Arkansas, Pine Bluff),
Chutima Boonthum (Hampton), Jeffrey Forbes (Duke), and Jayfus T. Doswell
(Juxtopia)
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3:30pm
- 4:00pm: Break
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4:00pm
- 5:30pm: Session
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Session
Chair: Marie desJardins
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4:00pm-4:30pm:
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Invited
Talk: How to Revolutionize Education for AI, CS, and Everything
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Peter
Norvig (Google)
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4:30pm-5:00pm:
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Wiimote
Interfaces for Lifelong Robot Learning
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Micah
Lapping-Carr, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Theadora Hinkle, Jonas Schwertfeger,
Daniel Grollman (Brown)
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5:00pm-5:30pm:
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Synergizing
AI and OOSE: Enhancing interest in Computer Science through game-playing and
puzzle-solving
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T.M.
Rao, Sandeep Mitra (SUNY Brockport)
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6:00pm
- 7:00pm: Reception (in Oak Lounge at Tresidder Union)
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Thursday, March 27
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9:00am
- 10:30am: Session
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Session
Chair: Todd Neller
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9:00am-10:00am:
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Invited
Talk:
Attracting Students to Computer Science Using Artificial Intelligence, Economics, and Linear Programming
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Vincent
Conitzer (Duke)
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10:00am-10:30am:
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Using artificial intelligence to help bridge students from high school to college
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Elizabeth
Sklar, Simon Parsons, Sheila Tejada (CUNY), Susan Lowes (Columbia), M Q
Azhar, Samir Chopra, Richard Jansen, Ira Rudowsky (CUNY)
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10:30am
- 11:00am: Break
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11:00am
- 12:30pm: Session
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Session
Chair: Marie desJardins
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11:00am-11:30am:
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A New
Start: Innovative Introductory AI-Centered Courses at Cornell
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Eric
Breck, David Easley, K-Y Daisy Fan, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee, Jennifer
Wofford, Ramin Zabih (Cornell)
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11:30am-12:00pm:
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Leveraging AI's breadth in CS 1
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Zachary
Dodds (Harvey Mudd)
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12:00pm-12:30pm:
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There's Something
About AI Exercises for Intro Students
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Wayne
Iba (Westmont)
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12:30pm
- 2:00pm: Lunch
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2:00pm
- 3:30pm: Session
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Session
Chair: Tom Lauwers
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2:00pm-2:30pm:
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Artificial
Intelligence for Non-Majors at Multiple Levels
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Andrea
Danyluk (Williams)
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2:30pm-3:00pm:
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Throw Down an AI Challenge
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Todd
Neller (Gettysburg), Ingrid Russell (Hartford), Zdravko Markov (Central Conn.
State)
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3:00pm-3:30pm:
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Using
Science Fiction in Teaching Artificial Intelligence
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Milind
Tambe, Anne Balsamo (USC), Emma Bowring (Univ. of Pacific)
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3:30pm
- 4:00pm: Break
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4:00pm
- 5:30pm: Session
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Session
Chair: Mehran Sahami
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4:00pm-5:00pm:
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Invited
Talk: Teaching with Sensor Nodes
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Phil
Levis (Stanford)
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5:00pm-5:30pm:
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Robot
Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through
Social Technical Exploration
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Emily
Hamner (CMU), Tom Lauwers (CMU), Debra Bernstein (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Illah
Nourbakhsh (CMU), Carl DiSalvo (Georgia Tech)
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6:00pm
- 7:30pm: Plenary Session
Plenary presentation by Marie desJardins (UMBC)
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Friday, March 28
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9:00am
- 10:30am: Session
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Session
Chair: Zachary Dodds
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9:00am-9:30am:
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Experiences
with Artificial Intelligence as an Undergraduate Creative Capstone Course
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V.
Scott Gordon (CSU, Sacramento)
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9:30am-10:00am:
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200
Students Can't Be Wrong! GamesCrafters, a Computational Game Theory
Undergraduate Research and Development Group
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Yanpei
Chen, Patricia C. Fong, Jerry Hong, Deepa Mahajan, Cynthia Okita, David Eitan
Poll, Alan Roytman, Ofer Sadgat, Daniel D. Garcia (UC Berkeley)
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10:00am-10:20am:
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Iterative
Design of a Robot-Centered Curriculum for the Introduction to Computer
Science Course
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Tom
Lauwers, Illah Nourbakhsh (CMU)
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10:30am
- 11:00am: Break
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11:00am
- 12:30pm: Session
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Session
Chair: Todd Neller
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11:00am-11:20am:
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Can
Computers Think? - an introduction to computer science, programming, and artificial
intelligence
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Kristina
Striegnitz, Valerie Barr (Union)
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11:20am-11:40am:
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Can AI
help develop socially-engaged computational thinkers?
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Douglas
H. Fisher (Vanderbilt)
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11:40am-11:50am:
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Symposium
Wrap-Up
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Mehran Sahami (Stanford)
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11:50am-12:30pm:
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Demonstrations
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