The 2004 Sixth Annual CCSC-NW Conference was held October 8 & 9, 2004 at Willamette University

The final program for paper presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and other events

Student Posters

Ten student teams (23 students in all) entered the student poster session and competition

Three vendors took part in the conference

Thanks to the following list of volunteers on the 2004 Conference Steering Committee

2004 Student Poster Session

Ten student teams (23 students in all) entered the student poster session and competition. Congratulations to the award winner, runner-ups, and everyone else who participated in the poster session.

First Place Award ($150)
Nurikabe is NP-complete
Brandon McPhail
Reed College
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jim Fix

Runner-up ($50)
Modeling Language Syntax using Compact Bilinear Logic
Alexa Mater
Reed College
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jim Fix

Runner-up ($50)
Microsoft Space Manager
Eric Uhls, Aaron Alquist, Yoshe Chandra, Deng-Khao Truong, Adam Hasan
Seattle University
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Joslin

Runner-up ($50)
Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
Cristopher Lohrey, Brent Roberts, Laura Henry, and Rogers Judd
University of Washington in Tacoma
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Mobus

Using Decision Stumps with AdaBoost to Improve Predictions
Gabe Rudy
Montana State University
Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Paxton

Assessing the Proposed Efficiency of Scripting Languages over Traditional Programming Languages
Matt Hartzell
George Fox University
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David M. Hansen

CWU-Chess: An Adaptive Chess Program
Ashur Odah, Pushpinder Heer, and Joe Lemley
Central Washington University
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Pattern Matching in the Game of Go
Loring Veenstra, Amanda Venghaus
Lewis & Clark College
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Peter Drake

The Trait Extractor: A Tool for Generating Traits in Java
Emerson Murphy-Hill
Portland State University
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Andrew P. Black

Examination of Cluster, Internet, and Grid Scheduling
Valentina Grigoreanu, Biljana Risteska, Tim Likarish, Eric Anholt
Lewis & Clark College
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jens Mache