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Friday, July 21 - Monday, July 24
2006

Workshop Schedule

FRIDAY, JULY 21
3:00-7:00 On-campus Housing Check-in - New House, Moorewood Avenue
(Guests arriving after 7PM should go directly to Newell-Simon Hall Atrium)
5:00-7:00 Registration - Newell-Simon Hall Atrium
7:00-10:00 Dinner/Social
   
SATURDAY, JULY 22
8:00-9:00 Registration, Continental Breakfast, Pre-Workshop Survey
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:00 Keynote Address: Computational Thinking
- Jeannette Wing, Professor and Chair of Computer Science Dept., CMU
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-12:30 Featured Topic: CS Unplugged: Introducing CS to all Students
Craig Nevill-Manning, Google
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Mini Session Teaching the Principles of Computation
- Tom Cortina, Lecturer & CS4HS Chair, Carnegie Mellon University
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:30 Featured Topic: Food For Thought (Great Ideas in CS using Food)
- Manuel Blum, Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- Steven Rudich, Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
5:30-7:30 Dinner on your own
7:30-10:00 Special Session: Human Computation
- Luis von Ahn, Assistant Professor Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
 
SUNDAY, JULY 23
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00

Panel: Broadening Participation in Computer Science
- Lenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- Carol Frieze, Director of Women@SCS, Carnegie Mellon University
- Orit Hazzan, Associate Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Claudia Morrell, Center for Women in IT, University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus

10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-12:30 Featured Topic: Computational Biology
- Guy Blelloch, Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Panel: Careers and Social Responsibility in Computer Science
- Kevin Collins, Career Consultant, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- Bernardine Dias, Research Scientist, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Mark Stehlik, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, Computer Science Department
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:30 Featured Topic: Robotics in the Classroom
- Illah Nourbakhsh and Tom Lauwers, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- David Touretzky, Research Professor in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
5:30-6:00 Break
6:00-10:00 Workshop Exercise (dinner provided)
 
MONDAY, JULY 24
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Mini Session: Cognitive Tutors: Developing and Using Advanced Educational Technology
- Ken Koedinger, Professor, Human Computer Interaction Institute and CMU Director of the Pittsburgh Science and Learning Center
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Group Presentations/Discussion
11:45-12:00 Wrap-up Surveys

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