Future of Computing 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
Thomas Milewski: ImageMax: Digital Asset Management
Silver award of $1,000 Sponsored by Reed Technology and Information Services
Zachary Parness: Interactive Generation Of Realistic 3D Terrain Using Height Maps
Bronze award of $500 Presented in memory of Henri Wiesel (CIS Dept.)
Henry Paradiz, Eric Zhivalyuk, Brandon Lis: Artician - A Social Network for Creative Professionals
Best Graduate Project Awards:
Gold award of $2,000 Sponsored by Stryker Orthopaedics
Debasish Das, Vladan Radosavljevic, Qiang Lou, Haidong Shi, Kosta Ristovski: Predicting Aerosol Density for Climate Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques
Silver award of $1,000
Nagesh Adluru, Xingwei Yang, ChengEn Lu: Contour Grouping Using Part Similarity
Bronze award of $500
Uros Midic: Automated generation of handwriting samples with application to CAPTCHA
Special Awards:
Social Relevance Award of $500 Sponsored by Methodist Home for Children
Debasish Das, Vladan Radosavljevic, Qiang Lou, Haidong Shi, Kosta Ristovski: Predicting Aerosol Density for Climate Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques
Most Popular Project Award of $500 Sponsored by the Temple University Student Chapter if the ACM
Nagesh Adluru, Xingwei Yang, ChengEn Lu: Contour Grouping Using Part Similarity
Undergraduate Awards Judges:
From the Temple University Computer and Information Sciences Department
Frank Friedman
Paul LaFollette
Claudia Pine-Simon
Yuan Shi
Sanford Sorkin
Stryker Orthopaedics
InternU
Graduate Award Judges:
From the Temple University Computer and Information Sciences Department
Zoran Obradovic
Judges for Social Relevance:
Sally Kyvernitis (Temple University CIS Department)
Tim Stranen (Methodist Home for Children)
Judges for the ACM Most Popular Project Award:
All Conference Participants
Reed Technology and Information Services
Philip Bagley
Steve Petchon
Temple University Student Chapter if the ACM
CIS Department, Temple University