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Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing is a program designed to help undergraduate students get involved in the research culture at Georgia Tech's College of Computing.

Visit Undergraduate Research Option for more information. Completing Research Option will make your grad school or job application really stand out! It shows that you have completed a serious, in-depth research project; that demonstrates the kinds of skills both graduate schools and employers are most looking for.

Browse research opportunities (for pay and for credit) on the research opportunities database, or find answers to questions in FAQ.

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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2009 UROC Research Symposium!


Congratulations to all the winners of the 2009 UROC Research Symposium!
We had some really amazing projects this year. Congrats to everyone for a super job!  The winners are:

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:
Judges (Rosa Arriaga, Alex Hill, Hyesoon Kim, Gabe Loh, Derek Reilly, Spencer Rugaber, Richard Vuduc)
Building services (Jack Ramsey & Matt)
TSO (Doug Conley & Tonya Gordon)
Student services (Linda Hyunh, Candace Pham, Noah Goodwin, Beth Collums, Morgan Lindskog)
Event coordinator: Alicia Richhart

-- Amy Bruckman and Alex Orso, UROC Coordinators

*** The UROC Research Symposium was supported by a gift from Yahoo! ***


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