Winners

SIGCHI 2009 Winners

Undergraduate Category
First Place: Jun Kato, University of Tokyo
"Mult-Touch Interface for Controlling Multiple Mobile Robots"

Second Place: Zhiquan Yeo, Carnegie Mellon University
"KTE2: An Engine for Kinetic Typography"

Third Place: Marcus Reul, RWTH Aachen University
"Bringing Usability to Industrial Control Systems"

Graduate Category
First Place: Patrick Gage Kelley, Carnegie Mellon University
"Designing a Privacy Label: Assisting Consumer Understanding of Online Privacy Practices"

Second Place: Brynn M. Evans, University of California, San Diego
"Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Social Search"

Third Place: Charlene Jennett, University College London
"Investigating Computer Game Immersion and the Component Real World Dissociation"

SIGCSE 2009 Winners

Graduate Category
Alma Cemerlic, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
"Fine-grained reputation-based routing in wireless ad hoc networks"

Undergraduate Category
First Place: Michael Liberatore, the College of Wooster
"Comparing Numerical Integration Methods in a Simulator for the Draping Behavior of Cloth"

Second Place: Sara Voss, Coe College
A GPU-Accelerated Method for Estimating the Desolvation Energy of Protein Complexes

Third Place: Aaron Gember, Marquette University
"Real-Time TCP for Embedded Devices"

SC 2008 Winners

Undergraduate Category
Co-Winner: Sara Alspaugh, University of Virginia
"Policy-driven Data Management for Distributed Scientific Collaborations using a Rule Engine"

Co-Winner: Gabriel E. Martinez, Virginia Tech
"Characterizing and Optimizing Virtualization Overhead for Portable High-performance Networking"

Graduate Category
First Place: Akila Gothandaraman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Acceleration of Quantum Monte Carlo Applications on Emerging Computing Platforms"

Second Place: David Dynerman, University of Wisconsin
"A GPU-Accelerated Method for Estimating the Desolvation Energy of Protein Complexes"

Third Place: Abhinav Bhatele, Abhinav, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"Effects of Contention on Message Latencies in Large Supercomputers"

OOPSLA 2008 Winners

Graduate Category Only
First Place: Kevin Bierhoff, Carnegie Mellon University
"Checking API Protocol Compliance in Java"

Second Place: Michael Gegick, North Carolina State University
"Failure-prone Components are also Attack-prone Components"

Third Place: Marwan Abi-Antoun, Carnegie Mellon University
"Static Extraction and Conformance Checking of the Runtime Architecture of Object-Oriented Systems"

ASSETS 2008 Winners

Graduate Category Only
First Place: Keith Trnka, University of Delaware
"Adapting word prediction to subject matter without topic-labeled data"

Second Place: Xu Liu, University of Maryland
"A Camera Phone Based Currency Reader for the Visually Impaired"

Third Place: Mohammed E. Hoque, MIT
"Analysis of Speech Properties of Neurotypicals and Individuals Diagnosed with Autism and Down's Syndrome"

MobiCom 2008 Winners

Graduate Category
First Place: Stratis Ioanidis, University of Toronto
"On the Distribution of Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network"

Second Place: Samuel Nelson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Encounter-Based Routing in DTNs"

Third Place: Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Purdue University
"XCOR: Synergistic Interflow Network Coding and Opportunistic Routing"

Grace Hopper 2008 Winners

Graduate Category Only
First Place: Ramya Raghavendra, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks

Second Place: Sadaf Zahedi, University of California, Los Angeles
Quality of Information-Aware Design and Management of Sensor Network

Third Place: Candy Yiu, Portland State University
60GHZ High Speed Wireless Architecture

 Undergraduate Category Only
First Place: Neha Singh, IIT Bombay
"Scaling Network Games Using Collaborative P2P Overlay"

Second Place: Alice (Xuexin) Zhu, Harvey Mudd College
HoverCross: Modeless Editing for Pen-Based Computing

Third Place: Sarah M. Loos, Indiana University
Variations of Strassen's Matrix Multiplication Algorithms

SIGGRAPH 2008 Winners

Graduate Category Only
First Place: Max Grosse, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Coded Aperture Projection

Second Place: Ly Phan, Washington University/St.Louis
"Surface Reconstruction from Point Set Using Projection Operator"

Third Place: Hitoshi Uno, Kwansei Gakuin University
"Lace Curtain: Measurement of BTDF and rendering of woven cloth"

HyperText 2008 Winners

Graduate Category Only

First Place: Yves Petinot, Columbia University
"Context-based URL Summarization"

Second Place: Charlie Hargood, University of Southampton
"A Thematic Model for Narrative Generation"

Third Place: Danielle Hyunsook Lee
PITTCULT: Recommender System using Trusted Human Network


PLDI 2008 Winners

Graduate Category

First Place: Haifeng He, University of Arizona
Compressing Dynamic Data Structures

Second Place: Anne Mulhern, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Effective Slicing

Third Place: Michael Achenbach, University of Aarhus
Hybrid Program Analysis for Error Detection

CHI 2008 Winners

Graduate Category

First Place: William Odom, University of Indiana
Personal Inventories: Toward Durable Human-Product Relationships

Second Place (tie): Lisa Nathan, University of Washington
Ecovillages, Values, and Information Technology: Balancing Sustainability with Daily Life in 21st Century America

Second Place (tie): Ye Kyaw Thu, Waseda University
Positional Prediction: Consonant Cluster Prediction Text Entry Method for Burmese

 Undergraduate Category

First Place: Suzanne Prior, University of Dundee
Interface Metaphor Design and Instant Messaging for Older Adults

Second Place: Gero Herkenrath, Aachen University
TWEND: Twisting and Bending as New Interaction Gesture in Mobile Devices

Third Place: Zhiquan Yeo, Carnegie Mellon University
Emotional Instant Messaging with KIM


SIGCSE 2008 Winners

Undergradate Category Only

First Place: Tal Rusak, Cornell University
Accurate, Scalable Simulation of Tiny OS Sensor Networks using Physically-Based Signal Power Models


Supercomputing 2007 Winners

Graduate Category Only

First Place: Junqing Sun, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Obtaining High Performance via Lower-Precision FPGA Floating Point Units

Second Place: Timothy Hartley, Ohio State University
Storing and Searching Massive Scale-free Graphs Author Information

Third Place: Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology
GrenchMark: A Framework for Testing Large-Scale Distributed Computing Systems


OOPSLA 2007 Winners

Graduate Category

First Place: Otavio Lemos
CodeGenie: A Tool for Test-Driven Source Code Search

Second Place: Marwan Abi-Antoun
Assuring the Execution Architecture of Object-Oriented Programs using Ownership Domain Annotations

Third Place: Emerson Murphy-Hill
Activating Refactorings Faster


Grace Hopper 2007 Winners

Graduate Category

First Place: Himabindu Pucha, Purdue University
Exploiting Similarity for Multi-Source Downloads Using File Handprints

Second Place: Wanmin Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Towards Multi-Party Collaboration in 3D Tele-Immersive Environments

Third Place: Amrita Pati
Genomic Signatures from DNA Word Graphs

Undergraduate Category

First Place: Neha Singh
TBA


Tapia 2007 Winners

Graduate Category

First Place: Joy Kamunyori, University of Virginia
Handling Self-Modifying Code Using Software Dynamic Translation

Second Place: Tao Cui, California Institute of Technology
Opportunistic Source Coding for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks

Third Place: Talithia Willliams, Rice University
A Spatio-Temporal Model for Bias Estimation in Radar Rainfall Data

 Undergraduate Category

First Place: Michael Eagle, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Wu's Castle: Teaching For Loops and Arrays Using Games

Second Place: Jerry Backer, City University of New York
The Effect of Memory Bandwidth on Processor Performance

Third Place: Lonnie T. Parker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Learning Locomotion Behaviors for Adaptation of Omni-Directional Walking Patterns



ASSETS 2007 Winners

Graduate Category Only

First Place: Jun Gong
TBA

Second Place: Darren Lunn
SADIe: Exposing Implicit Information to Improve Accessibility




MOBICOM 2007 Winners

Graduate Category Only

First Place: Shravan Rayanchu
Deconstructing Wireless Errors: Collision or 'Bad' Channel

Second Place: Mehedi Bakht and Yuan Yuan
Mehedi Bakht: On the Feasibility of High-power Radios in Sensor Networks

Third Place: Udayan Kumar
Gender-based feature analysis in Campus-wide WLANS



SIGGRAPH 2007 Winners

Graduate Category Only

First Place: Eric Brochu
Preference Galleries for BRDF Design

Second Place: Lu Liu
Surface Network Construction from Non-parallel Cross-sections

Third Place: Sumit Jain
Optimization-Based Interactive Motion Synthesis for Virtual Characters




PLDI 2007 Winners

Graduate Category Only

First Place: Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Colorado State University
Posynomials: the Language of Optimal Tiling

Second Place: David Lo, National University of Singapore
A Sound and Complete Specification Miner

Third Place: Ramakrishna Gummadi, University of Southern California
Global Atomicity Guarantees for Sensor Networks


STOC 2007 Winners

Undergraduate Category Only

First Place: Matei Zaharia
Fast and Optimal Scheduling over Multiple Network Interfaces

Second Place: Kevin Dick
A Mathematical Model of Hardware Prefetching



CHI 2007 Winners

Graduate Category

First Place: Wendy Moncur, Universities of Aberdeen & Dundee
Providing Affective Information to Family and Friends Based on Social Networks

Second Place: Nathan G. Freier, University of Washington
Children Distinguish Conventional from Moral Violations in Interactions with a Personified Agent

Third Place: Eric Lee, RWTH Aachen University

Undergraduate Category

First Place: Satyendra Nainwal, University of Michigan

Second Place: Anthony Collins, University of Sydney
Exploring Tabletop File System Interaction


 
Winners of the 2006-2007 SRC Grand Finals

Graduate Category

First Place: Eugene Borodin, Stony Brook University
HearSay: Context-Directed Non-Visual Web Browser

Second Place: Emerson Murphy-Hill, Portland State University
Improving Usability of Refactoring Tools

Third Place: Bowen Hui, University of Toronto
Automatic Software Customization: A Methodology for Learning Individual Preferences

Undergraduate Category

First Place: Anselm Grundhoefer, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Real-Time Adaptive Radiometric Compensation

Second Place: Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mt. Holyoke College
Lightweight Economic Models for Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks

Third Place: Yuan-Ting E. Huang, University of British Columbia
Mobile Phone Keypad Design for Fast Chinese Text Entry by Phonetic Spelling

SIGCSE’07 2007 Winners
Graduate Category

First Place: Jiang Zheng, North Carolina State University
On Regression Testing COTS-based Applications

Second Place: Seiji Isotani, Osaka University
Using Ontologies to Develop Theory-aware Collaborative Learning Applications

Third Place: Ewa Misiolek, University of Notre Dame
Two Flow Network Simplification Algorithms

Undergraduate Category

First Place: Anthony Gitter, Arizona State University
Biomedical Information Extraction Through Deep Parsing and Syntactic Role Matching

Second Place: Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mt. Holyoke College
Economic Models for Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks

Third Place: Christopher Earl, Ohio Wesleyan University
Shared Shortest Paths
SC’06 SRC 2006 Winners

Graduate Category Only

First Place: Benjamin C Lee, Harvard University
“Statistical Inference for Efficient Microarchitectural and Application Analysis”

Second Place: Jik-Soo Kim, University of Maryland at College Park
“Employing Peer-to-Peer Services for Robust Grid Computing”

Third Place: Taiga Nakamura, University of Maryland
“HPCBugBase: An Experience Base for HPC Defects”
ASSETS SRC 2006 Winners

Graduate Category Only

First Place: Joshua Hailpern, Carnegie Mellon University
“WISE: A Wizard Interface Supporting Enhanced Usability”

Second Place: Yevgen Borodin, Stony Brook University
“A Flexible VXML Interpreter for Non-Visual Web Access”

Third Place: Murni Mahmud, University Of Manchester, UK
“A Mixed Method For Evaluating Input Devices With Older Persons”

OOPSLA SRC 2006 Winners

Graduate Category Only

First Place: George Fairbanks, Carnegie Mellon University
"Design Fragments Make Framework Use Easier"

Second Place: Emerson Murphy-Hill, Portland State University
"Improving Usability Of Refactoring Tools"

Third Place: Dario Correal, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
"Definition And Execution Of Multiple Viewpoints In Workflow Processes"

Grace Hopper Conference Celebrating Women in Computing SRC 2006 Winners

Graduate Category

First Place: Laura Chiticariu
"A non-intrusive Data-driven Approach to Debugging Schema Mapping for Data Exchange"

Second Place: Bowen Hui
"Decision- Theoretic Intelligent Assistance"

Third Place: Jhilmil Jain
"Extensible and Dynamic Data Stucture Viewers in Java"

Undergraduate Winner

Erica Yuan-Ting Huang
"Mobile phone keypad design for Fast Chinese Text Entry by Phonetic Spelling"
MOBICOM 2006 Winners

Graduate Category

First Place: Vivek Shrivastava
"On the (In)Feasibility of Fine Grained Transmit Power Control"

Second Place: Robin Snader
"Energy-Efficient Frame Dropping Policies for Multimedia"

Third Place: Vishnu Navda
"Deflect: Interference-aware Fast Path Adaptation in Wireless Mesh Networks"

Undergraduate Winner

Michael Ford
"Opportunistic Bandwidth Allocation with SDR"
SIGGRAPH 2006 Winners

Coordinators: Mike McGrath, Barbara Cutler

Graduate Category

First Place: Wenjin Zhou (Brown University)
"Perceptual Coloring and 2D Sketching for Segmentation of Neural Pathways"

Second Place: Zeki Melek (Texas A&M University)
"Bending Burning Matches and Crumpling Burning Paper"

Third Place: Makoto Okabe (University of Tokyo)
"Illumination Brush: Interactive Design of Image-based Lighting"

Undergraduate Winner

Anselm Grundhoefer (Bauhaus University, Germany)
"Real-Time Adaptive Radiometric Compensation"
2006 Grand Finals Winners

Coordinator: Ann Sobel, Miami University, sobelae@muohio.edu

Graduate Category

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

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

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

Undergraduate Category

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

Second Place: Scott Hale
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
Hiram College
"Locating, Tracking, and Interpreting Ean-13 Bar Code Waveforms in a Two-Dimensional Video Stream"
SIGCSE 2006 Winners

Coordinator: Ann Sobel Miami University, Ohio

Undergraduate Category

First Place: Shiri Azenkot (Pomona College)
"An Evaluation of the Edit-Distance-With-Moves Similarity Metric for Comparing Genetic Sequences"

Second Place: Scott Hale (Eckerd College)
"Unsupervised Thresholding and Morphological Processing for Automatic Fin-outline Extraction"

Third Place: Jeffrey Adair (Hiram College)
"Locating, Tracking, and Interpreting EAN-13 Bar Code Waveforms in a Two-dimensional Video Stream"

Graduate Winner

Purvi Shah (University of Houston)
"Fast Fourier Transforms on High Performance Computing Systems"
SIGPLAN SRC at OOPSLA 2005 Winners

Coordinator: Dirk Siebert (Leipzig University)

Graduate category Only

First Place: Danny Dig
Using Refractorings to Automatically Update Component-Based Applications

Second Place: Uri Dekel
Supporting Distributed Software Design Meetings: What Can We Learn from Co-located Meetings?

Tie for Third Place: David Janzen
Software Architecture Improvement through Test-Driven Development

and

Ruth Lennon
Optimization of Service Provision for Composite Website Services (CWS)
SIGGRAPH 2005 Winners

Coordinator: Cindy Grimm (Washington University in St. Louis)

Undergraduate Category

First Place: Yuki Mori

Second Place: Toshiya Hachisuka

Graduate Category

First Place: Tiberiu Popa

Second Place: Daniel Keefe

Third Place: Masanori Kakimoto
MobiCom 2005 Winners

Coordinators: Haiyun Luo (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Dirk Westhoff (NEC Research Europe)

Graduate Category Only

First Place: Joel Koshy

Second Place: Albert F. Harris, III

Third Place: Yaling Yang
2005 Grand Finals Winners

Coordinator: Ann Sobel, Miami University, sobelae@muohio.edu

Graduate Category

First Place: Jane Tougas
Dalhousie University
Updating the Partial SVD: Making LSI Run Faster

Second Place: Kulesh Shanmugasundaram
Polytechnic University
ForNet: A Distributed Forensic Network

Third Place: Tao Xie
University of Washington at Seattle
Automatic Identification of Common and Special Object-Oriented Unit Tests

Undergraduate Category

First Place: Eric Bodden
RWTH Aachen University
Efficient and Expressive Runtime Verification for Java

Second Place: Spiros Xanthos
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Clustering Object-Oriented Software Systems Using Spectral Graph Partitioning

Third Place: Kamil Wnuk
Harvey Mudd College
Dense 3D Mapping with Monocular Vision
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