• ACM Student Research Competition
  
• The 30th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
  

Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) is an internationally recognized venue for undergraduate and graduate researchers to share results, exchange ideas and insights, network with academic and industry luminaries, and perfect their communication skills.

This May, the ACM Student Research Competitions (SRCs) finished yet another successful year. The winners of the SRC Grand Finals traveled to San Francisco for a night of celebration at the ACM Awards Banquet, where they were honored with awards along with such greats of computing as Peter Naur the winner of the Turing Award this year.

ACM 2006 Grand Finals Winners

Graduate Category

First Place: Danny Dig of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Toward Automatic Upgrade of Component-Based Applications"

Second Place: Yaling Yang of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Interference-aware Loop-free Routing For Mesh Networks"

Third Place: David Janzen of the University of Kansas: "Software Architecture Improvement through Test-Driven Development"

Undergraduate Category

First Place: Yuki Mori of the University of Tokyo: "Automatic Cross-Sectioning Using 3D Field Topology Analysis"

Second Place: Scott Hale of Eckerd College: "Unsupervised Thresholding Morphological Processing for Automatic Fin-outline Extraction in DARWIN (Digital Analysis and Recognition of Whale Images on a Network)"

Third Place: Jeffrey Adair of Hiram College: "Locating, Tracking, and Interpreting Ean-13 Bar Code Waveforms in a Two-Dimensional Video Stream"

The six winning entries for the Grand Finals are available for viewing at http://acm.org/src/subpages/results.html.

First round presentations take place at a series of poster competitions held at selected ACM SIG conferences throughout the year. Winners present their research to conference attendees at a special SRC session. Student Research Competitions will take place at more conferences than ever during the academic year 2006-07, including SIGGRAPH, MobiCom, OOPSLA, ASSETS, Grace Hopper Celebration, SuperComputing, SIGCSE, STOC, and more. To find out about submission opportunities to upcoming SRCs, please visit www.acm.org/src.

The 30th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals

This year's International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals welcomed eighty finalist teams from around the world to San Antonio, Texas. The winning teams were, from first to fifth place: Saratov State University (Russia); Jagiellonian University (Poland); Altai State Technical University (Russia); University of Twente (Netherlands); and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China).

Headquartered at Baylor University and sponsored by IBM, the ACM ICPC is the world's oldest and largest programming competition, consisting of a global network of universities hosting regional competitions that advance teams to the World Finals. For more information on the World Finals, and to determine your university's eligibility in the next round of regional contests, please refer to this page: http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/

The 30th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is sponsored by IBM http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/Finals/default.htm