January 28 2008

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Department meeting January 28 2008 3pm Present: Ernie Ackerman (Ernie), Karen Anewalt (Karen), Trillane Burlar (Trillane), Stephen Davies (Stephen), Ron Zacharski (Ron), Marsha Zaidman (Marsha), and Juliette Zerick (Juliette)

Absent: Jennifer Polack-Wahl

Old Business

1. Karen made a motion to accept the December 3 and December 12 minutes; Stephen seconded. Minutes approved
2. Discussion on Documentation Guidelines will be done at May retreat.
3. Regarding peer review folders, Ernie made a motion to manage peer review folders using Blackboard. Peer review evaluations will be emailed to the chair. The chair will destroy the emails after they are no longer needed. Stephen seconded. Motion approved.
4. Discussion of courses and inclusion in proposed Gen Ed categories. Need proposals for:
   1. Experiential Learning: CPSC 430 (MSCS 530--this is CGPS course)--Polack; CPSC 391--Zacharski (MSCS 591--this is CGPS course).
   2. Arts, Literature, and Performance: CPSC 440 Game Programming (Polack), CPSC 106 Digital Storytelling (Anewalt)
   3. Freshmen Seminar: FSEM 100: Davies, Polack, Anewalt, and Zacharski (added in December)
   4. Global Inquiry: CPSC 104--Ackermann and Zacharski, CPSC 310 (Polack)
   5. QR: CPSC 105 Problem Solving with Databases (Davies)
5. Stephen reports that ACM and PERLS are sponsoring a video game olympics February 16 from 5pm on. ACM and PERLS are investigating funding possibilities for this event. They are looking for volunteers to staff the event.
6. Karen presented a committee motion for faculty senate votes on TIP and a course release for the president of the faculty senate. Motion carried.
7. Jennifer and Ernie will be conducting exit interviews with CPSC 401 students.
8. Karen will be our CPSC Representative to Faculty Senate 2008-2009
9. A reminder that the CPSC Spring Symposium will be on Wednesday, April 9 at 3:00 in Trinkle 210
10. Jennifer will be in charge of UPE Induction on Sunday, April 6 Time 1pm
11. Regarding the All Academic Showcase on March 29, 2008, various faculty members signed up for time slots.
12. Stephen is waiting for Ron to send him a high res photo for the updated brochures.
13. We revised the catalog copy for 305 /405 as presented below. Marsha will combine this with other revisions and email the complete CS catalog to the department. We need to have final revisions done by 2/25.
    1. 305 -- This course examines the masic operation of computing systems. It takes a bottom-up approach covering each major component of such systems including hardware, logic circuit design, CPU instruction sets, assemblers, and compilers. Students will gain experience programming in assembly language and C.
    2. 405 -- This course examines the abstractions above hardware that make a computer usable to both programmers and users. These abstractions include concurrent programming, virtual addressing, transactions, and virtualization. Many of these abstrations are useful not just for operating system kernel development but for development of any large scale programming project. Students apply these concepts by working with a real operating system kernel. Programming intensive.

New Business:

1. Marsha says we need to compare the old merit pay plan and the proposed plan to see if there are conflicts. Marsha will report back next meeting.
2. Jennifer will provide quotes supporting the accelerated MSMIS programs
3. We will get together next Monday at 3pm for fall class schedule planning
4. We had a general discussion about removing the cross-listing for MATH/CPSC 125. Stephen and Ernie will talk with Keith.

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