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2011 UROC Symposium
The 2011 UROC Symposium, where computing undergraduates show off their research, was held April 11th. Winners were chosen by a panel of faculty judges and People's Choice Awards were selected by popular vote.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 UROC Symposium!
Judges' Awards
First Place ($500):
Stewart Butler
"CHAT--Cetacean Hearing Augmentation and Telemetry"
Advisor: Thad Starner
Second Place ($250):
Joy Buolamwini
"Peek-a-boo Simon"
Advisors: Irfan Essa and Andrea Thomaz
Third Place ($100) (tie):
Abhishek Jain
"Mobile Music Touch"
Advisor: Thad Starner
Chayong Lee, Farzon Lofti, & Jinghui Wang
"Micrograph: An Infrastructure for Spontaneous Social Networking"
Advisor: Kishore Ramachandran
Grad Student Advisor: Lateef Yusuf
People's Choice Awards
(Prize: $50)
First place:
Abhishek Jain
"Mobile Music Touch"
Advisor: Thad Starner
Second place:
Chayong Lee, Farzon Lofti, & Jinghui Wang
"Micrograph: An Infrastructure for Spontaneous Social Networking"
Advisor: Kishore Ramachandran
Grad Student Advisor: Lateef Yusuf
Third place:
Antonio Blanca & Karthik Narayan
"Efficient Generation of Synthetic Data with Inhomogeneous Correlations"
Advisor: Milena Mihail
The 2011 UROC Symposium was sponsored by a gift from Google
2010 UROC Research Symposium
Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 UROC Symposium!
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Judges' Awards
First Place ($750):
Antonio Blanca
"Walking on Catalan Spaces"
"Algorithms Simulator"
Advisor: Prasad Tetali
Second Place ($300):
Sanjeet Hajarnis
"iQuest - Location Based Gaming"
Advisor: Mark Riedl
Third Place ($100)
Joshua Moore
"Extensions of a System for Robot Affordance Prediction"
Advisor: Jim Rehg
People's Choice Awards
(Prize: $50)
First Place:
Sanjeet Hajarnis
"iQuest - Location Based Gaming"
Advisor: Mark Riedl
Second Place (Tie):
Mansi Sharma
"Community Mosaic: Finding ways to eat more healthfully in a low-income African American community"
Advisors: Beki Grinter & Andrea Grimes
Brian Stebar II
"Ad Hoc Symbiotic Traffic Simulation"
Advisors: Richard Fujimoto & Michael Hunter
Special thanks to:
Administrative Coordination: Morgon Lindskog & Monica Ross
TSO: David Mercer
Communications: Michael Terrazas, Louise Russo, & Terris Johnson
Judges: Rosa Arriaga, Nick Feamster, Hyesoon Kim, Ashwin Ram, Spencer Rugaber, Tony Tang, and Kristin Vadas Marsicano
-- Amy Bruckman and Alex Orso, UROC Coordinators
The 2010 UROC Symposium was sponsored by gifts from Yahoo! and Google
2009 UROC Research Symposium
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2009 UROC Research Symposium!
Judges' Awards
First Prize ($750)
- Brian Stebar II and Matthew McCawley - Scalable Video Conferencing
- Advisors: Kishore Ramachandran and Rajnish Kumar
Second Prize ($300)
- Kathryn Long - Learning as an Alternative to a Simulator in Real-time Strategy Games
- Advisor: Ashwin Ram
Third Prize ($100)
- Dan Gifford - The Effects of Mobility on Mini-Qwerty Text Input
- Advisor: Thad Starner
People's Choice Awards
(Prize: $50)
First Place
- Kathryn Long - Learning as an Alternative to a Simulator in Real-time Strategy Games
- Advisor: Ashwin Ram
Second Place
- Brian Stebar II and Matthew McCawley - Scalable Video Conferencing
- Advisors: Kishore Ramachandran and Rajnish Kumar
Third Place
- Peter Tsankov - Execution Hijacking
- Advisor: Alex Orso
Thanks to:
The Judges
- Rosa Arriaga
- Alex Hill
- Hyesoon Kim
- Gabe Loh
- Derek Reilly
- Spencer Rugaber
- Richard Vuduc
Facilities
- Jack Ramsey
- Matt
TSO
- Doug Conley
- Tonya Gordon
Student Services
- Linda Hyunh
- Candis Pham
- Noah Goodwin
- Beth Collums
- Morgan Lindskog
Event Coordinator
- Alicia Richhart
The 2009 UROC Research Symposium was supported by a gift from Yahoo!
