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What is Research Day?

What is Research Day?. The annual one-day Student-Faculty Research Day Conference provides students and faculty with the opportunity to present their research

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What is Research Day?

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  1. What is Research Day? • The annual one-day Student-Faculty Research Day Conference provides students and faculty with the opportunity to present their research • Held at the Pace Graduate Center in White Plains on the Friday of the last spring weekend session of the Doctor of Professional Studies (DPS) program • Makes attendance convenient for DPS students • Location convenient to NYC and Pleasantville campuses 2013 Research Day

  2. How is the Conference Conducted? • Research Day is similar to external conferences, providing students with a conference experience • The faculty review of papers approximates the standard peer review process of external conferences • Sessions, session chairs, time monitored presentations • Occasional keynote speakers • 2012 – Dr. Fran Allen at centenary of Alan Turing’s birth • 2011 – Accomplished students of Dr. Frank Rosenblatt, the inventor of neural networks called perceptrons 2013 Research Day

  3. Origin of Research Day • Before DPS program, School of CSIS did little research • Pace University was, and still is, primarily a teaching institution • No associated engineering school • Hard science departments, such as mathematics and physics, do little research and basically service the other departments • With the DPS program • Research oriented faculty hired and DPS students conducted research • History of CSIS research platforms • 2001: 6 Pace CSIS papers in MASPLAS 2001 at IBM Research • 2002: Pace CSIS hosted MASPLAS 2002 at Pace Grad Center • 2003: First Pace CSIS Research Day Conference 2013 Research Day

  4. Sources of Research Day Papers • Faculty • Externally funded work, individual faculty research, early versions of papers submitted to external conferences • Doctoral Students (currently from DPS program) • Summarize completed dissertation work, describe ongoing dissertation work, present an extended research proposal • Masters Students • Summarize thesis work, present capstone/other project work • Undergraduates • Present individual work and course project work • Joint work of Seidenberg & non-Seidenberg folks 2013 Research Day

  5. The Michael L. Gargano   Annual Research Day • The Research Day conference became “The Michael L. Gargano Annual Research Day” in 2009 • Following Mike’s passing in 2008 • Michael was continually engaged in research activities, often with the students • He contributed several papers, often three or four, to the Research Day conference in the early years • He advised many students in the DPS Program 2013 Research Day

  6. Research Day Participation Statistics Although some participants may have authored several papers, each participant is counted only once. 2013 Research Day

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