Welcome to the Quest for Java™ Winners' Corner! We are pleased to post the winners of the 1999 Contest, congratulations one and all and many thanks to everyone that entered!

1999 Quest for Java Contest Winners

Individual Grand Prize Winner:

J. Hoye
Render Tutorial: Interactive Raytrace and Radiosity Rendering Tutorial

Team Grand Prize Winners:

R. Unger, J. Ginchereau
ENIP Java 1.2 Email Client

Individual 1st Place Winner:

M. Robinson
The Java Computability Toolkit

Team 1st Place Winners:

S. Kogan, B. Bhatti, S. Raza
Visual Machine Language Simulator

Individual 2nd Place Winner:

C. Liu
Lab with Image Utilities

Individual 3rd Place Winner:

D. Minnen
GASPER: Graph and Structural Programming Education Resource

Individual 4th Place Winner:

S. Kaliannan
Mandelbrot Fractal Renderer

Individual 5th Place Winners:

F. Ouwendijk
Fchat

L. Zhou
User Defined Stock Opportunity Monitor (UDSOM)

J. Barron
WebReader

S. Kumar Anandan
Animation Tool Kit for Computer Science Education (ATCSE)

W. Edwards
Athena

M. Frederick

J. Becnel
Equipotential Surfaces Applet

J. Gilbert, M.S.
JavaCalendar 1.0

N. Kopp
An Evacuation Simulation Mode

D. Zhong
Animated GIF Editor

1998 Quest for Java: Top 5 Winners

Grand Prize:

Orion Sky Lawlor, University of Alaska
Slice Viewer -- a program to interactively display a slice through a block of greyscale data (an MRI or CAT scan).

First Prize:

Arish Ali, University of Massachusetts
Chemistry Applab -- worked on the interactive modules used in this applet that facilitate "learn-by-doing" instead of using the net as a passive instructional medium.

Jauvane C. de Oliveira, University of Ottawa
Jets -- the Java Enabled Telecollaboration System, is a collaboration system designed for real-time sharing of Java applets. Using any Java-enabled Web browser, multiple users in a telecollaboration session are able to share generic applications in the form of Java applets.

Matt Tucker, University of Iowa
Grocery Administrator -- this applet is a package to setup and maintain online grocery stores. It includes a color picker, an advanced user interface, client/server interaction, and many other features.

Chris Zychowski, University of California at Davis
RAM -- Remote Access Map Queries and Viewing, is a Java applet that allows the end user to view and query U.S. Geological Survey data maps over a network. The map list is determined by a text file residing on the server, limiting the number of available maps only to disk size of the server machine.

1997 Quest for Java Contest: Top Five Winners

First Place:

Robert Flores-Mendez, University of Calgary
jKSImapper -- "J" for Java, KSI for "Knowledge Science Institute" and "mapper" which is related to the system's concept mapping system for distributed multi-user collaboration on the Internet and World Wide Web.

Aaron Hertzmann, Rice University, New York University
GRACE - an interactive ruler and compass construction editor for teaching geometry to high school students.

Anne Kwong, McGill University
Power Link -- FTP Client and Server application.

Teresa Lam
A character editor application, which allows users to freely design characters and create files.

Craig Navin, McGill University
An application that allows users dynamically change the state of threads running within a computer program and observe and manipulate certain variables within the interpreter.

Key Dates:

September 14, 1998: Registration Opens
February 20, 1999: Last day to register and/or join ACM
March 1st through March 31, 1999: Submit Applets
April 1st through April 30, 1999: Judging Period
May, 1999: Winners Notified
June, 1999: Winners Posted

Questions? jquest@acm.org

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