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Conference Program

The JA-SIG "Jazzin' IT up: JA-SIG Unplugged" Conference program has three main tracks: Design IT, Build IT and Manage IT. The content will be delivered in a variety of formats including: half-day seminars, one-hour lecture style presentations, roundtable discussions, informal "birds of a feather" discussions and show-and-tell style kiosk demonstrations. For more details on the individual sessions included in the JA-SIG Program Schedule, click on the title of the presentation.

NOTE: Sunday pre-conference seminars require registration and additional fees. See registration form for details.

Tracks for Breakout Sessions:

Sunday, December 5, 2004
7:00AM-7:00PM Registration

8:30AM-12:00PM Pre-Conference Seminar
JSR-168 Portlets and uPortal
Matt Young
Duke University

Pre-Conference Seminar
Introduction to Java
Stephen Stelting
Sun Microsystems

8:30AM-4:30PM Pre-Conference Seminar
uPortal 2.4 Installation and Configuration
Michael Erdely
UNICON, Inc.

1:00PM-4:30PM Pre-Conference Seminar
Developing Java Web Applications
Stephen Stelting
Sun Microsystems

Pre-Conference Seminar
Hands-on Introduction to HyperContent 2.0
Alex Vigdor
Columbia University

6:00PM-7:30PM Reception

 
Monday, December 6, 2004
7:00AM-7:00PM Registration

7:30AM-8:30AM Breakfast

8:30AM-9:45AM Keynote Presentation
Collaborative Open-Source Software: Panacea or Pipe Dream for Higher Education?
David Lambert
Georgetown University

General Session Keynote Address

9:45AM-10:15AM Refreshment Break

Kiosk
JA-SIG Clearinghouse - What's New?
Steve Barrett
Cornell University

Kiosk
Integrating an Open Source Editor with Legacy Systems
Enrique Arce
The University of Texas at Austin

10:14AM-11:15AM Track Presentations

10:15AM-11:15AM Design IT Track
uPortal Roadmap
Ken Weiner
UNICON, Inc.
Eric Dalquist
UNICON
Andrew Petro
Yale University

Build IT Track
Supporting Scholarly Communications with an Open Source Publishing System
David Ruddy
Cornell University

Manage IT Track
Delivering portal services to the user - How do they actually want them?
Chris Awre
University of Hull

11:30AM-12:30PM Track Presentations

Manage IT Track
Enterprise Architecture Planning - Practical Steps
Marina Arseniev
University of California, Irvine

Build IT Track
Visual Understanding Environment
Ranjani Saigal
Tufts University

Design IT Track
Reengineering Web Design: Customers in Charge
Ruth Butlin
Queen's University

12:30PM-2:00PM Lunch

2:00PM-3:00PM Track Presentations

Design IT Track
Structured Data without Marshalling: OSP 2.0 Use of XSD to Provide Strongly-Typed, Flexible Structured Information
John Ellis
the r-smart group

Build IT Track
Central Authentication Service
Andrew Petro
Yale University

Manage IT Track
Web-Services: The Technology is the Easy Part
Mark Mara
Cornell University

3:00PM-3:30PM Refreshment Break

Kiosk
UW Calendar
Greg Barnes
University of Washington

3:30PM-4:30PM Track Presentations

Manage IT Track
From Paper to Web: Leveraging Technology to Streamline Reclassification Process
Ramona Agrela
University of California, Irvine

Design IT Track
Joining Up Web Services
Robert Sherratt
University of Hull
Steve Jeyes
University of Hull

Build IT Track
Portlets & JSR 168: What Now?
Andrew Wills
UNICON, Inc.

4:45PM-5:45PM Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather
Calendaring
Greg Barnes
University of Washington

Birds of a Feather
Building JSR 168 and WSRP portlets - a blueprint for standards interaction and portlet development
Chris Awre
University of Hull

Birds of a Feather
JSR-168 Portlet Development
Eric Dalquist
UNICON, Inc.

Birds of a Feather
Sun's Early Adopter Program for "Open Source" Solaris
Marc Hamilton
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Birds of a Feather
Web Accessibility: Incorporating Universal Design Principles into What We Do
Janell Baran
Denison University

6:00PM-7:00PM Reception

7:00PM-9:00PM Dinner

 
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
7:00AM-5:00PM Registration

7:30AM-8:30AM Breakfast

8:30AM-9:45AM General Session Keynote Address

Keynote Presentation
The K-12 Data Model meets the University: The Development of E-Transcript Schemas and the Infrastructure Needed to Access Them
Ron Kleinman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

9:45AM-10:15AM Refreshment Break

10:15AM-11:15AM Build IT Track
XML as a Gateway to Legacy Services
Adam Connor
The University of Texas at Austin

Track Presentations

Manage IT Track
Integration of Version Control and Code Migration Processes
Jim Thompson
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Design IT Track
Kuali Project Architecture
James Thomas
Indiana University

11:30AM-12:30PM Design IT Track
Boston University XML Gateway: Integration with External Vended Products and Local Web Applications/Legacy Systems
Vlad Grinman
Boston University
Jacalyn Reisz
Boston University

Track Presentations

Manage IT Track
Managing IT Projects to Succeed
Barrie Sutton
Princeton University

Build IT Track
The Sakai Project: Present and Futures
Joseph Hardin
University of Michigan

12:30PM-2:00PM Lunch

2:00PM-3:00PM Build IT Track
Pragmatic Application Building: Step by Step
Jay Sissom
Indiana University

Manage IT Track
Overview of the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC)
Michael Sessa
PESC
Bruce Marton
The University of Texas at Austin

Design IT Track
Use of Kerberos for WebServices Authentication
Stephen Barrett
Cornell University

Track Presentations

3:00PM-3:30PM Refreshment Break

3:30PM-4:30PM Manage IT Track
Using uPortal to connect disparate institutional ERPs
Randy Bruce
BCcampus

Build IT Track
Using J2EE, J2SE and JSE to implement Electronic Time Clock and Employee Scheduling System
Yevgeniy (Eugene) Khusid
Princeton University

Track Presentations

Design IT Track
Who Are You and What Can You Do? Identity Management
Faust Gorham
University of California, Merced

4:30PM-5:00PM Closing Session

 

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