Goals

Attendees

Program

Location

Hotel

Organizers

Symposium Goals

Attendees

Program

Note:  No proceedings will be published.

Symposium  Location and Parking

1. Be sure you have a wireless card. Details
2. Download and install the Odyssey software.
3. Obtain a network ID and password for UIC, by sending email to Juhong Liu.

Power outlets are not available in the demo area. As long as your laptop has a full charge at the start of the demo session, you should be able to complete your demo without supplementary power.

A map showing the location of BSB, ERF (CS Dept), and SEL (more CS Dept.) is available. In a nutshell, they are near the intersection of Halstead and Harrison, and at the intersection of interstates 90/94 and 290.  The map also shows the location of the nearby parking lots and CTA stops.

Parking and driving information (from UIC web pages; but I expect parking to be easier than usual on a Saturday):
On-street parking is very limited in the UIC vicinity, with either short-term meters or "zone" parking limited to residents with city permits. The police actively ticket illegal parkers and expired meters.

Paid parking is available in a four-story parking structure located on the northeast corner of the intersection at Halsted and Taylor streets. You may enter the structure from Taylor, about 50 yards east of Halsted. There is no hourly rate; daily parking is available for about $6.00 (very cheap by Chicago standards). If you are coming by expressway, you should exit from the Dan Ryan Expressway (I-90/94) at Taylor street and head west.

Exit the parking structure toward Halsted (west) and cross Halsted; you are now on the UIC campus. The large buildings on the left are ERF (Engineering Research Facility, the southernmost building) and SEL (Science and Engineering Laboratories), which house most of the Computer Science Department research and instructional laboratories. Computer Science offices are found in both of those buildings, and in the Science and Engineering Offices building, located due west approximately 200 yards. (You can't miss it; it's a 12 story building, the smaller of the two high-rise office buildings on campus.)

Hotel

Recommended hotel (can purchase directly, or bid on Priceline):

Hyatt on Printer's Row
500 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60605
phone 312 986 1234
fax 312 939 2468

"A National Historic Landmark among luxury hotels in downtown Chicago, the Hyatt on Printers Row is located in the cultural and financial heart of Chicago's Downtown Loop. Within walking distance of the Chicago Board of Trade, Stock Exchange, Art Institute, Sears Tower, Auditorium Theater, State Street Shopping, Soldier Field and both Millenium and Grant Park, the Hyatt on Printers Row is the crown jewel of downtown Chicago luxury hotels." 

Rules for Demos, Posters, and Talks

1. The Gong Show (5-Minute Talks)
• Each speaker will be presenting a poster or a demo later on that day. 
• Each speaker has 5 minutes to speak.  At the end of that time, the moderator rings a bell (the "gong") and the speaker must stop talking immediately.  Speakers do not have to use all of their allotted time.
• Any time that the speaker needs to get A/V materials working counts as part of their 5 minutes.  This strongly suggests that each school should have all their talks preassembled on a single laptop.
• The talk should be an advertisement for the poster/demo, not a description of it.  In particular, the talk should try to convey the following:  What problem is being addressed?  Why should anyone care about this problem, i.e., why is it important?  What are the major research issues associated with this problem, i.e., why is it hard?  What is the general approach that the speaker is taking toward the problem, i.e., why is the work interesting?
• Gong show talk slots are allocated in proportion to the number of student attendees from each institution (see final program below).  Each school should choose its own gong show speakers and the order of their talks.
2. Demos
• Each person presenting a demo should bring a laptop that can run the demo.
• As described above, wireless internet access is available for demos; however, you must preregister for the access and download all needed software in advance. There will not be wired internet access. Power will not be available in the demo area, so precharge laptop batteries.
• Everyone who wants to do a demo can do one.  Each school should choose their own demos.
3. Posters
• We are renting 40 easels for posters.  The easels will be set up in the hallways of BSB.
• The easels have an A-frame shape and can accept a poster on stiff poster board, or a floppy one that has to be clipped at the top to keep it from falling off. You can read more about the easels.
• The exact size and form of the poster is up to the presenter, but there will only be one easel per presenter.
• Easels will be allocated to schools in proportion to the number of students attending from that school and the number of posters that the school wanted to present (see final program above).  Each school should choose their own poster presenters.  If your school will not be using all its allocated easels, please let the organizers know so that we can make them available to another school.

Symposium Organization

Organizing committee co-chairs
Chris Clifton, Purdue University
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago

Local arrangements chair
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago

Organizing committee
Chris Clifton, Purdue University
H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan
Beth Plale, Indiana University
Raghu Ramakrishan, University of Wisconsin
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago

Job-hunt tutorial chair
AnHai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign