Tulane Engineering Forum

The 2000 Tulane Engineering Forum Program

8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 Opening Remarks

        Nick Altiero, Dean, School of Engineering, Tulane University

8:40 Welcoming Remarks

        Scott C. Cowen, President, Tulane University

9:00 Keynote Address

Future National Policy on Environment and Information
    Technology

        Billy Tauzin, U.S. Representative, 3rd District of Louisiana

9:30 Plenary Address

Enabling the Future: Information Technology in Space
    Exploration

        Ken Ford, Director, Institute for Human &
        Machine Cognition, University of West Florida

10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session A: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Large Database Management

Trends and Advances in Databases

        Fred Petry, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
        Science, Tulane University

Data Mining and Business Intelligence

        Chris Westphal, Chief Executive Officer, Visual Analytics Inc.

Image Databases

        Bill P. Buckles, Professor of Electrical Engineering and
        Computer Science, Tulane University

Breakout Session B: Web Based Applications/E-Commerce

Languages for Developing Web-based Applications

        Boumediene Belkouche, Professor of Electrical Engineering
        and Computer Science, Tulane University

Recommender Systems in E-Commerce

        Ronald Yager, Director, Machine Intellegence Institute,
        Iona College

From Human Genome to Personalized Medicine

        Shi-Ping Hsu, Vice President, Technology and Business
        Development, Paracel Inc.

Breakout Session C: Water Quality

The Role of Information Technology in Large Marine Ecosystem
    Management for the Gulf of Mexico

        Jim Giattina, Director, Gulf of Mexico Program Office,
        Environmental Protection Agency

Industry Adoption of Innovative Environmental Technology

        Laura Steinberg, Assistant Professor of Civil and
        Environmental Engineering, Tulane University

Pharmaceutical Contaminants in the Waters of Southeastern
    Louisiana

        Glen Boyd, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental
        Engineering, Tulane University

Noon Lunch and Keynote Address

Building Infrastructure, Protecting the Environment and
    Managing Risk in the Dot-Com Era

        James F. McNulty, President & CEO, Parsons Corporation

1:30 Plenary Address

Engineering for Sustainability: More or Less Than Meets the
    Eye Here?

        Harry Freeman, author of Industrial Pollution Prevention
        Handbook

2:15 Coffee Break

2:30 Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session A: Security in Information Systems

Intrusion Detection

        Linda Lankewicz, Associate Professor of Mathematics,
        University of the South

Programmable Security: The Next Step in Programming
    Language Evolution?

        Sujeet Shenoi, Oliphant Professor of Computer Science,
        University of Tulsa

Protecting and Providing Information: A High Entropy Issue
    Involving Business, Law Enforcement, the Pentagon and
    Citizens' Privacy

        James Hearn, retired, National Security Agency

Breakout Session B: Air Quality

Air Quality Studies in the Gulf of Mexico: Environmental and
    Regulatory Issues

        Terry Scholten, Chief, Project Management Section,
        U.S. Minerals Management Service

Meteorological and Air Quality Data Collection in Breton
    National Wilderness Area

        Brian Shannon, Principal Environmental Scientist,
        BP Amoco PLC

Mitigating the Urban Heat Island to Improve Air Quality and
    Reduce Energy Consumption

        David Sailor, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
        and Director, Southern Regional Center National Institute
        for Global Environmental Change, Tulane University

Poster Session

Innovative Research in Environmental Issues and Information
    Technology

        Tulane Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
        Tulane Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
        Science
        National Institute for Global Environmental Change
        And more

4:00 Closing Reception