Tentative Program:

• 9:00am-9:15am Opening Remarks

  Francis Lawrence
  President-Rutgers University

• 9:15am-10:15am Keynote Speech

  "Computer Science challenges in the next 10 years"
  Mark Weiser, Chief Technologist, Xerox Corporation

• 10:15am-10:30am Coffee Break

• 10:30am-11:00am Overview of Rutgers Computer Science

  Tomasz Imielinski, Chair
  Department of Computer Science

• 11:00am-12:30pm Talks (15 minutes each):

  Vasek. Chvatal "Mathematical Programming as a Sport"
  B.R. Badrinath "Overview of the DataMan Project:
  Mobile and Wireless Computing at Rutgers"
  Casimir Kulikowski "Bioinformatics Initiative and Distributed Collaborative Systems"
  Haym Hirsh "Towards 'Personal' Computers"
  L. Steinberg "High Performance Computing and Design Project"

• 12:30pm-2:00pm Lunch

  Demos - Select for schedule
  An Interactive visual Environment for Engineering Design; Discoveryboard: Data Mining Prototype; Mobile Wireless Computing -- DataMan Project; Pyrros -- Parallel Task Scheduling

• 2:00pm-2:45pm Talks (15 minutes each):

  Sven Dickinson "Three-Dimensional Object Recognition"
  Martin Farach "Algorithms for Evolution or Just Who is a Monkey's Uncle?"
  Barbera Ryder "Programming Languages Research: Prolangs Project"

• 2:45pm-3:15pm Educational Initiatives: Internet Technology Certificate

  ** new track for computer science majors

• 3:15pm-3:45pm Industrial Meeting

• 3:45pm-4:00pm Coffee break

• 4:00pm-5:30pm Panel Discussion:
  "Is the future still bright for PhDs in Computer Science?"

  Panelists are:

  Al Aho, Columbia; Richard Lipton, Princeton; Shamin Naqvi, Bellcore; Ravi Sethi, Lucent; Mark Weiser, Xerox

• 5:30pm-6:30pm Reception

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