Winners Past Years Winners ASSETS 2009 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Miriam Madsen, MIT "iSET: Enabling in Situ and Post Hoc Video Labeling" Second Place: Nova Ahmed, Georgia Institute of Technology "Defining Virtualization Based System Abstractions for an Indoor Assistive Living for Elderly Care" Third Place: Wei-Hsun Chen, Chung Yuan Christian University "MGuider: Mobile Guiding and Tracking System in Public Transit System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments" Undergraduate Category First Place: Raphael Rush, Queen's University "Sensation Augmentation to Relieve Pressure Sore Formation in Wheelchair Users" Second Place: Stephen Steward, University of Delaware "Designing AAC Interfaces for Commercial Brain-Computer Interaction Gaming Hardware" OOPSLA 2009 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Tudor Dumitras,Carnegie Mellon University "Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems" Second Place: Michael Pradel, ETH Zurich "Dynamic Inference and Refinement of API Usage Protocols" Third Place: Nels E. Beckman, Carnegie Mellon University "Modular Typestate Checking in Concurrent Java Programs" Undergraduate Category Diego Cavalcanti, Federal University of Campina Grande "Improving Safety when Refactoring Aspect-Oriented Programs" Grace Hopper 2009 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Taniya Siddiqua, University of Virginia "Dynamic NBTI Management in Multicore Processor" Second Place: Xiaohuan (Iris) Yan, Monash University "Handover Optimization in Fourth-Generation Heterogeneous Wireless Networks" Third Place: Zartasha Mustansar, The University of Manchester, UK "Computer Aided Insights into the Biomechanics of Dinosaurs" Undergraduate Category First Place: Manasi Vartak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute "Recommendation-based Query Relaxation via Space Partitioning and Mapping Functions" Second Place: Nan Meng, Winona State University "Presenting Clinical Survival Probability Charts on Mobile Devices" Second Place (tie): Lucy Vasserman, Pomona College "Towards Emotionally Intelligent Machines: A Comprehensive Mood Classification System" MobiCom 2009 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Purdue University "Designing Coded Feedback for Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing" Second Place: Ionut Constandache, Duke University "Highlights: Event Coverage in Mobile Social Networks" Third Place: Sriram Nandha Premnath, University of Utah "Secret Key Extraction in MIMO-Like Sensor Networks Using Wireless Signal Strength" Undergraduate Category First Place: Chun-Wei Chen, National Taiwan University "DANCE: A Game-Theoretical Femtocell Channel Exchange Mechanism" Second Place: Ahmed Saeed, Nile University "DNIS: A Middleware for Dynamic Multiple Network Interface Scheduling" PACT 2009 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Bushra Ahsan, City University of New York "A Hybrid Compiler-Architecture Technique to Manage Off-Chip Traffic for Multicore Chips" Second Place: Jayaram Bobba, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Designing Efficient Safe Supervised Memory Systems" Third Place: Samer Arandi, University of Cyprus "DDM-VMC: The Data-Driven Multithreading" SIGGRAPH 2009 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Tae-Joon Kim, Bochang Moon, Duksu Kim, Sung-Eui Yoon (presenter) "RACBVHs: Random-Accessible Compressed Bounding Volume Hierarchies" Second Place: Matthew Hirsch (presenter), Douglas Lanman, Ramesh Raskar, Henry Holtzman "BiDi Screen: Depth and Lighting Aware Interaction and Display" Third Place: Lisa Blum (presenter), Wolfgang Broll, Stefan Müller "Augmented Reality under water" Hypertext 2009 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Christian Koerner, TU Graz "The Motivation behind Tagging" Second Place: Michal Tvarozek, Slovak University of Technology "Personalized Semantic Web Exploration Based on Adaptive Faceted Browsing" Third Place: Ching Man Au Yeung, University of Southampton "User-Induced Hyperlinks in Collaborative Tagging Systems" PLDI 2009 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Jennifer B. Sartor, University of Texas at Austin "Efficient Array lets for the Masses" Second Place: Ohad Shacham, Tel Aviv University "Chameleon: Adaptive Selection of Collections" Third Place: Michael Ashley-Rollman, Carnegie Mellon University "Distributing Logic Programs" Undergraduate Category Paul Magrath, Trinity College Dublin "Encryption Code Generator" 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 Winner: Tal Rusak, Cornell University Accurate, Scalable Simulation of Tiny OS Sensor Networks using Physically-Based Signal Power Models