The Future of Computing 2009 Awards
The best undergraduate and graduate awards are based on the following criteria:
• Most Innovative Use of Technology
• Most Useful to the Proposed Community of Users
• Best Project Presentation
Best Undergraduate Project Awards:
Gold award of $2,000 Sponsored by InternU
• Henry Paradiz : Artician - A Creative Network for Art, Graphic Design, and Photography
Silver award of $1,000 Sponsored by Almac
• Grae Cullen, Justin Roman, & Nikki Rankin : C Programming Teaching Tool
Bronze award of $500
• T. Maxayn Henderson & Kevin Hoang - Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?
Best Graduate Project Awards:
Three Gold awards of $1,166 Sponsored by Stryker Orthopaedics
• Chengen Lu, & Xingwei Yang: Image Understanding and Object Recognition
• Uros Midic: Improved Sequence Alignment for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
• Vladan Radosavljevic, Debasish Das, Kosta Ristovski, Qiang Lou, Haidong Shi : Data Mining Support for Predictionand Analysis of Geophysical Parameters
Special Awards:
Most Popular Project Award of $500 Sponsored by the Temple University Student Chapter of the ACM
• T. Maxayn Henderson & Kevin Hoang - Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?
Paticipation Awards of $100
• Xin Li: Learning Based Thumbnail Cropping
• Susha Li & Jingting Zeng : Recognizing the 3-Dimensional World: Shape Corresponence of 3D Point Clouds
• Moussa Taifi : Performance Prediction and Evaluation of a Solution Space Compact Parallel Program Using the Steady State Timing Model
Undergraduate Awards Judges:
From the Temple University Computer and Information Sciences Department
Gary Baram
John Fiore
Frank Friedman
Claudia Pine-Simon
Yuan Shi
Sanford Sorkin (Chair)
Graduate Award Judges:
From the Temple University Computer and Information Sciences Department
Longin Jan Latecki (Chair)
Haibin Ling
Zoran Obradovic
Judges for the ACM Most Popular Project Award:
All Conference Participants
Almac
InternU
Stryker Orthopaedics
Temple University Student Chapter of the ACM
CIS Department, Temple University