The 2006 Eight Annual CCSC-NW Conference was held October 6 & 7, 2006 at Eastern Washington University

The Final Program and Presenter Slides for paper presentations, tutorials, and panel sessions

Student Posters

Congratulations to all the students who entered the Student Poster Session and competition

We would like to thank the following vendors who took part in the conference

Many thanks to the volunteers serving on the 2006 Conference Steering Committee

2006 Student Poster Session

Congratulations to all the students participating in the student poster session and competition.

Metaphor - 1st place ($125)
Ryan Brown, The Evergreen State College

Metaphor is a metadata search engine which addresses two problems common to existing systems by providing an interface for browsing metadata, and by exporting metadata in a way that is accessible through traditional file system views and utilities.

Legacy Foundation Project - 2nd place ($100)
Joel Arbuckle, Darren Basler, Piers Excell-Rehm, Nik Molnar, John Moore
The Evergreen State College

The Legacy Foundation Framework is an extensible game development platform consisting of a simulation game engine named Coriolis and a library of graphics and audio functions named Chrysalis, along with a first Coriolis plug-in: a graphical interface system called Hypernova.

SilverMail: Testing an Interface for Older Users - 3rd place ($75)
Ryan Datteri, Gonzaga University

Silvermail is an e-mail client designed for older users. TOUT's (Technology for Older Users Today) guidelines were applied to an email interface and then their effectiveness was tested.

Thanks to Upsilon Pi Epsilon, The International Honor Society for Computer Science, for sponsoring the student poster awards.