Goals

Registration

Attendees

Program

Location

Hotels

Organizers

Symposium Goals

Registration

No preregistration is required. If they wish to do so, attending schools can donate funds to defray the costs of the food breaks.

Attendees

We expect 140 attendees this year, from the following institutions.

School	Professors	Students	Postdocs
IIT	3	5	0
Indiana	6	9.5	0
Michigan-AA	1	9	0
Michigan-D	2	1	0
Nebraska	0	2	0
Northwestern	2	5	1
Purdue	3	16	1
UIC	4	16	2
UIUC	5	33	1
Wisconsin	2	12	0
TOTAL	28	108.5	5

This year's keynote speaker from local industry:

Edy Liongosari, Accenture
Toward Real Time Enterprises

In this talk, I will describe the principal factors that give rise to these capabilities and show how several organizations are using the capabilities to their advantage. I will also talk about related research projects that are being developed within Accenture Technology Labs and if time permits, I will demonstrate one of them.

Biography: Edy Liongosari is an Associate Partner and a Senior Researcher at Accenture Technology Labs. His responsibilities include researching, inventing and commercializing the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions using new and emerging technologies. He is currently involved in the development of Insight Discovery Engine with the objective of industrializing the process of gaining insight from various data sources within an organization.

Prior to working on the Insight Discovery Engine, Edy led the development of the Knowledge Discovery Tool, which uses knowledge modeling to semantically integrate disparate information sources. He worked with several drug discovery scientists in pharmaceutical companies to use knowledge models to accelerate their drug discovery process by providing them with a large set of highly integrated bio-medical information. This research has been applied in several other domains and has received several patents and external awards. A copy of this research work has also been placed into the Smithsonian’s permanent research collection.

Program

Note:  No proceedings will be published.

Symposium Location and Parking

All sessions of the Symposium will be held in the auditorium of the CS building on the IIT campus, at the corner of State Street and 31st Street. Basic local arrangements information can be found in the next few paragraphs, but Wai Gen Yee has provided a much more comprehensive reference that tells you where to go once you arrive at the building, where to set up your demo/poster, how to get wireless access, how to get to lunch spots, and so on.

The Computer Science Department address is 10 West 31st Street, Chicago IL 60616, marked as the "Stuart Building" on the printable campus map, which also shows parking locations. You can also examine a MapQuest map. Parking will be free on Saturday.

If you take public transportation to IIT, then you have three options:

• Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Red Line (Howard-Dan Ryan) to Sox Stadium/35th Street station
• CTA Green Line (Lake-Englewood-Jackson Park) train to 35th Street/Bronzeville station
• CTA Bus lines with stops on State Street (#29 or #35) or Michigan Avenue

To drive to IIT:

• From the North: Take the Dan Ryan Expressway (90/94) east, and exit at 31st Street. Turn left at the first intersection (31st Street). In about half a mile, you will reach the intersection of State and 31st Streets. The Computer Science Department is in the Stuart Building on the northwest corner of this intersection, and parking is on the northeast and southeast corners.
• From the South: You will probably not be able to follow the directions for people who are driving from the north, because the northbound 31st Street exit is closed for construction. Here is an alternative for you:
  Take the Dan Ryan Expressway (90/94) west, and exit at 35th Street. You will find yourself driving north along S. La Salle Street. Continue north on LaSalle until you reach 31st Street; turn right there. In about half a mile, you will reach the intersection of State and 31st Streets. The Computer Science Department is in the Stuart Building on the northwest corner of this intersection, and parking is on the northeast and southeast corners.
• From Lake Shore Drive: Exit at 31st Street. Go inland (west) for about two miles, until you reach the intersection of State Street and 31st. The Computer Science Department is in the Stuart Building on the northwest corner of this intersection, and parking is on the northeast and southeast corners.

The printable campus map shows the large campus parking lots.

At lunch time, attendees can dine in the nearby Chinatown or Bridgeport neighborhoods. Bridgeport is due west of IIT, and is centered at 31st and Normal Ave, which is about a mile west of the CS building. Chinatown is to the northwest, and is centered a bit east of Stewart Avenue and 23rd Place which is about 2.5 miles northwest of the CS building. Note that parking in Chinatown is notoriously difficult, and Bridgeport may be congested because there is a White Sox game at 1PM that day. You can read about Chinatown lunch options and Bridgeport lunch options at the Metromix web site.

Hotels

Rules for Demos, Posters, and Talks

1. The Gong Show (5-Minute Talks)
• Each speaker must present 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 above).  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.
• Wireless internet access will be available for demos. Power may 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 easels for posters.  The easels will be set up in the hallways of the CS building.
• The easels will have an A-frame shape and will accept a poster on stiff poster board. If your poster is floppy, then bring some small clips with you so that you can clip it to the back of someone else's (stiff) poster to keep it from falling off the easel.
• 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
Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology

Organizing committee
Chris Clifton and Hicham Elmongui, Purdue University
Jignesh Patel, University of Michigan
Beth Plale and Melanie Wu, Indiana University
Raghu Ramakrishan, University of Wisconsin
Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology