Past Years' Winners Winners SIGCSE 2012 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Tanmoy Sarkar, Iowa State University "Dynamic Test Input Generation for Database Applications to Achieve High Mutation Score" Second Place: Monika Akbar, Virginia Tech "Deduced Social Networks for Educational Portal" Third Place: Kevin Buffardi, Virginia Tech "Student Adherence to Test-First Programming in the Classroom" Undergraduate Category First Place: Kelly Smith, Slippery Rock University "PICS: Platform Independent Cloud Scripting" Second Place: Elizabeth Skiba, SUNY Geneseo "Experimentally Exploring Algorithmic Descriptions of Three-Dimensional Geometry" Third Place: Stephanie Schmidt, Sonoma State University "Modeling the Power Consumption of Computer Systems with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)" SC 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Vladimir Umiftsev, University of Nebraska-Omaha "A Scalable Group Testing Based Algorithm for Finding d-highest Betweenness Centrality Vertices in Large Scale Networks" Second Place: Sam Ade Jacobs, Texas A&M University "From Days to Seconds: Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Motion Planning" Third Place: Ehsan Totoni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Optimizing All-to-All Algorithm for Blue Waters Using Simulation" GRACE HOPPER 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Tiffany C. Inglis, University of Waterloo "Generating Opt Art Lines" Second Place: Maryam Sadeghi, Simon Fraser University "Automated Detection and Analysis of Dermoscopic Structures on Dermoscopy Images" Third Place: Niyati Chhaya, University of Maryland "Joint Inference for Extracting Text Descriptors from Triage Images of Mass Disaster Victims" Undergraduate Category First Place: Stephanie M. Antetomaso, Wheaton College "Unsupervised Phoneme Segmentation in Continuous Speech" Second Place: Pragya Tripathi, Columbia College "Alice in WonderClassroom" Third Place: Avani Nandini, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur "What If Application Demands Phonetic Similarity?" ASSETS 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Rolf Black, University of Dundee, Scotland "The PhonicStick – A Joystick to Generate Novel Words Using Phonics" Second Place: Ha Trinh, Universty of Dundee, Scotland "Using a Computer Intervention to Support Phonological Awareness Development of Nonspeaking Adults" Third Place: Markus Guentert, University of Potsdam, Germany "Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders: A Train Station Navigation Assistant" Undergraduate Category First Place: Brandon Shrewsbury, University of West Georgia "Providing Haptic Feedback Using The Kinect" Second Place: Sanjana Prasain, University of Washington "StopFinder: Improving the Experience of Blind Public Transit Riders with Crowdsourcing" Third Place: Victoria Hribar, Virginia Commonwealth University "The TaskTracker" SPLASH 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Hari K. Pyla, Virginia Tech "Coarse-Grain Speculation for Emerging Processors" Second Place:Jelena Vlasenko, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy "Exploring Developer's Tool Paths" Third Place:Hiroki Nishino, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering, Singapore "Misfits in Abstractions: Toward User Centered Design in Domain-Specific Languages for End-user Programming" Undergraduate Category First Place: Sarah Chasins, Swarthmore College "Efficient Implementation of the Plaid Language" Second Place:Melina Mongiovi, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil "Safira: A Tool for Evaluating Behavior Preservation" Third Place: Ernesto Alfonso, Carnegie Mellon University "Automatic Protocol-Conformance Recommendations" PACT 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Alexandros Tzannes, University of Maryland, College Park "Improving Run-Time Scheduling for General-Purpose Parallel Code" Second Place: Zhijia Zhao, College of William and Mary "Probabilistic Models towards Optimal Speculation of DFA Applications" Third Place: Rance Rodrigues, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "An Architecture to Enable Lifetime Full Chip Testability in Chip Multiprocessors" MobiCom 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Ashish Patro, University of Wisconsin "AirTrack: Locating Non-WiFi Interferers using Commodity WiFi Hardware" Second Place: Zhongli Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell "HAWK: An Unmanned Mini Helicopter-based Aerial Wireless Kit for Search, Rescue and Surveillance" Third Place: Ahmed E. Kosba, Egypt-Japan Univ. of Science and Technology "A Robust Technique for WLAN Device-free Passive Motion Detection" SIGCOMM 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Matthias Wilhelm, TU Kaiserslautern "WiFire: A Firewall for Wireless Networks" Second Place: Wenchao Zhou, University of Pennsylvania "FSR: Formal Analysis and Implementation Toolkit for Safe Inter-domain Routing" Third Place: Mainack Mondal, Max Planck Institute "Limiting Large-scale Crawls of Social Networking Sites" SIGGRAPH 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Lech Swirski, University of Cambridge "Layered Photo Pop-Up" Second Place: Clemens Birklbauer, Johannes Kepler University Linz "Display Pixel Caching" Third Place: Yusuke Matsui, The University of Tokyo "Interactive Manga Retargeting" DAC 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Wing Chiu Tam, Carnegie Mellon University "Physically-Aware Analysis of Systematic Defects in Integrated Circuits" Second Place: Jayanand Asok Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign "Static Analysis of RTL Source Code for Estimating Aging-induced Degradation" Third Place: Nauman Khan, Tufts University "Method to Mitigate Through-Silicon Via-Induced Substrate Noise" PLDI 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Dimitris Vardoulakis, Northeastern University "High-Order Flow Analysis with Call/Return Matching" Second Place: Cindy Rubio Gonzalez, Universidad of Wisconsin, Madison "Finding Error-Handling Bugs Using Static Analysis" Third Place: Jaeheon Yi, University of California, Santa Cruz "Building a Better Concurrency: Cooperative Reasoning for Preemptive Execution" Undergraduate Category First Place: Samantha Wood, Bryn Mawr College "SMOReS: Sparse Matrix Omens of Reordering Success" Second Place: Max Grossman, Rice University "Dynamic Task parallelism with a GPU Work-Stealing Runtime System" Third Place: Sandeep Kumar Bindal, Indian Institute of Technology, India "Systematic Ranking of Thread Schedules for Testing Multithreaded Programs" ICS 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Yuan Tian, Auburn University "Enabling Petascale Data Analysis for Scientific Applications Through Data Reorganization" Second Place: Matthieu Dorier, ENS Cachan "Damaris: Using Dedicated I/O Cores for Scalable Post-petascale HPC Simulations" Third Place: Choonki Jang, Seoul National University "An Automatic Code Overlaying Technique for Multicores with Explicitly-Managed Memory Hierarchies" ICSE 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Shauvik Roy Choudhary, Georgia Institute of Technology "Detecting Cross-browser Issues in Web Applications" Second Place: Sai Zhang, University of Washington "Combined Static and Dynamic Automated Test Generation" Third Place: Sandeep Kumar, National University of Singapore "Specification Mining in Concurrent and Distributed Systems" Undergraduate Category First Place: Julius Davies, University of Victoria, Canada "Measuring Subversions: Security and Legal Risk in Reused Software Artifacts" Second Place: Vanessa Pena, Universidad de Chile "Test Blueprint: An Effective Visual Support for Test Coverage" Winner of the Innovative use of Microsoft technology Award: Xusheng Xiao "Problem Identification for Structural Test Generation: First Step Towards Cooperative Developer Testing" CHI 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Hyungsin Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology "Exploring Technological Opportunities for Cognitive Impairment Screening" Second Place: Wei Dong, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign "Cultural Difference in Image Searching" Third Place: Vera Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign "How User Reviews Influence Older and Younger Adults' Credibility Judgments of Online Health Information" Undergraduate Category Winner: Svenja Leifert, University of Konstanz "The Influence of Grids on Spatial and Content Memory" AOSD 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Camila Nunes, PUC Rio "On the Proactive Identification of Mistakes on Concern Mapping Tasks" Second Place: Danilo Ansaloni, University of Lugano "Self-Refining Aspects for Dynamic Program Analysis" Third Place: Ismael Figueroa, University of Chile "Avoiding Confusion with Exception Handling in Aspect-Oriented Programming" SiGCSE 2011 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Acey Boyce, University of North Carolina at Charlotte "Augmenting Educational Tools through Conversion to Games" Undergraduate Category First Place: Zachary Zappala, The College of New Jersey "Investigating Computational Methods for Evaluating Putative Substrate Conformations in Cytochrome P450s" Second Place: Charles Stolper, Furman University "TheCave: Using GPUs and Classical Philosophy to Data-Mine Images " Third Place: Shaun Pickford, University of North Carolina at Charlotte "Dance Tool: Creation of a New Culturally Situated Educational Game" SC 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Swapnil Patil, Carnegie Mellon University "Scale and Concurrency of GIGA+: File System Directories with Millions of Files" Second Place: Yi Gu, University of Memphis "Optimizing End-to-End Performance of Scientific Workflows in Distributed Environments" Third Place: Kanimathai Duraisamy, University of Nebraska – Omaha "An Efficient Algorithm for Obtaining Low Memory Approximation Models of Large-Scale Networks" Undergraduate Category First Place: David C. Goode, Harvard University "Parallelized Hartree-Fock Code for Scalable Structural and Electronic Simulation of Large Nanoscale Molecules" Second Place: Alan P.Humphrey, University of Utah "An Integration of Dynamic MPI Formal Verification within Eclipse PTP" Third Place: Daren J. Hasenkamp, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab "Finding Tropical Cyclones on Clouds" ASSETS 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Shiri Azenkot, University of Washington "GoBraille: Enhancing Independence and Safety for Blind and Deaf-Blind Public Transit Riders" Second Place: Kristen Shinohara, University of Washington "Investigating Meaning in Uses of Assistive Devices: Implications of Social and Professional Contexts" Third Place: Kyle Montague, University of Dundee "Accessible Indoor Navigation" Undergraduate Category First Place: Samuel White, University of Rochester "AudioWiz: Nearly Real-time Audio Transcriptions" Second Place: Timothy Walsh, University of Delaware "Utterance-Based Systems: Organization and Design of AAC Interfaces" Third Place: Jason Behmer, University of Washington "LocalEyes: Accessible GPS and Points of Interest" SPLASH 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Ciera Jaspan, Carnegie Mellon University "Verifying Configuration Files" Second Place: Boaz Rosenan, Open Univesity of Israel "Designing Language-Oriented Programming Languages" Third Place: Ferosh Jacob, University of Alabama "Extending Abstract APIs to Shared Memory" Grace Hopper 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Abrita Chakravarty, Duke University "A Modular Pipeline for Computational Prediction of Imprinted Human Genes" Second Place: Tanzima Z. Islam, Purdue University "Harnessing Multiple Cores for Efficient Checkpointing in Grid Systems" Third Place: Nurcan Durak, University of Louisville "Principal Contour Extraction and Contour Classification to Detect Coronal Loops from the Solar Images" Undergraduate Category First Place: Sophia Yang, Pomona College "What are You Looking At? Classifying Neural Activity of the Fusiform Face Area" Second Place: Sarah H. Harmon, Colby College "Human Perception of Gendered Artificial Entities" MobiCom 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Souvik Sen, Duke University "Listen Before You Talk, But on the Frequency Domain" Second Place: Shahriyar Amini, Carnegie Mellon University "Caché: Caching Location-Enhanced Content to Improve User Privacy" Third Place: Dan Levin, Deutsche Telekom Labs "TCPSpeaker: Clean and Dirty Sides of the Same Slate" PACT 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Niket K. Choudhary, North Carollina State University "FabScalar: Composing Synthesizable RTL Designs of Arbitrary Cores within a Canonical Superscalar Template" Second Place: Mehdi Modarressi, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran "A Scalable High-performance Reconfigurable On-chip Network Architecture" Third Place: Nalini Vasudevan, Columbia University "D2C: Deterministic, Deadlock-free Concurrency" Undergraduate Category Winner: Peter Calvert, University of Cambridge, UK "Offloading Java to Graphics Processors" SIGCOMM 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Szymon Jakubczak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "One-Size-Fits-All Wireless Video" Second Place: Samuel David Perli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "PixNet: LCD-Camera Pairs as Communication Links" Third Place: Jie Xiong, University College London "SecureAngle: Improving Wireless Security Using Angle-of-Arrival Information" Undergraduate Category Winner: Tianyi Wang , Tsinghua University "Unbiased Sampling in Directed Social Graph" Siggraph 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Pedro Cruz, Universidade de Coimbra "Visualizing Empires Decline" Second Place: James Gregson, The University of British Columbia "Rapid Surface and Volume Mesh Generation From Depth-Augmented Visual Hulls" Third Place: Michael Berger, University of Edinburgh "Carnival: A Modular Framework for Automated Facial Animation " DAC 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Tan Yan, University of Illinois "A Novel Placement Approach to Length-Matching Routing" Second Place: Peter Milder, Carnegie Mellon University "A Formula-Driven Approach for Compiling and Optimizing Hardware Implementations of DSP Transforms" Third Place: Xiangyu Dong, Penn State University "Modeling and Leveraging Emerging Non-Volatile Memories for Future Computer Designs" Undergraduate Category First Place: Tsung Wei Huang, University: National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan "Droplet Routing Algorithms for Digital Microfluidic Biochips" PLDI 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Eva Burrows, University of Bergen, Norway "Harnessing the Driving Force of Dependencies" Second Place: Anh Vo, University of Utah "Scalable Verification of MPI Programs" Third Place: Mirza Beg, University of Waterloo "Instruction Scheduling on Multicores" Undergraduate Category Winner: Daniel Ehrenberg, Carleton College "Closure Elimination as Constant Propagation" ICSE 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Andrew Bragdon, Brown University "Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments" Second Place: Zvonimir Rakamaric, University of British Columbia "STORM: Static Unit Testing of Concurrent Programs" Third Place: Thomas Fritz, University of British Columbia "Staying Aware of Relevant Feeds in Context" Undergraduate Category First Place: Florian S. Gysin, University of Bern "Improved Social Trustability of Code Search Results" CHI 2010 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Yuichi Fujiki, University of Houston "IPHONE As a Physical Activity Measurement Platform" Second Place: Dana Rotman, University of Maryland "Constant Connectivity, Selective Participation: Mobile-Social Interaction of Students and Faculty" Third Place: D.Yvette Wohn, Michigan State University "Building Commmon Ground and Reciprocity through Social Network Games" Undergraduate Category First Place:Eleanor Poley, Knox College "RUMU Editor: A Non-WYSIWYG Web Editor for Non-Technical Users" Second Place: Yvonne Jansen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany "MUDPAD: Fluid Haptics for Multitouch Surfaces" Third Place: Elizabeth Stobert, Carleton University, Canada "Usability and Strength in Click-Based Graphical Passwords" SIGCSE 2010 Winners Graduate Category Andrew Meneely, North Carolina State University "Secure Open Source Collaboration: An Empirical Study of Linus' Law" Undergraduate Category First Place: Tommy Carpenter, Central CT State Univ. "Iris Recognition for Mobile Devices" Second Place: Eric Drewniak, Wheaton College "Unsupervised Discovery of Motifs with Amplitude" Third Place: Stefan Maurer, Hiram College "Analysis of User Behavior" SC 2009 Winner Undergraduate Category Jacqueline R. Addesa, Virginia Tech "On the Efficacy of Haskell for High-Performance Computational Biology" 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 (presenter), 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, 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 Only 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" Supercomputing 2007 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Junqing Sun, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Obtaining High Performance via Lower-Precision FPGA Floating Point Units Second Place: Timothy Hartley, Ohio State University Storing and Searching Massive Scale-free Graphs Author Information Third Place: Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology GrenchMark: A Framework for Testing Large-Scale Distributed Computing Systems OOPSLA 2007 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Otavio Lemos "CodeGenie: A Tool for Test-Driven Source Code Search" Second Place: Marwan Abi-Antoun Assuring the Execution Architecture of Object-Oriented Programs using Ownership Domain Annotations Third Place: Emerson Murphy-Hill Activating Refactorings Faster Grace Hopper 2007 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Himabindu Pucha, Purdue University Exploiting Similarity for Multi-Source Downloads Using File Handprints Second Place: Wanmin Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Towards Multi-Party Collaboration in 3D Tele-Immersive Environments" Third Place: Amrita Pati Genomic Signatures from DNA Word Graphs Undergraduate Category First Place: Neha Singh Tapia 2007 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Joy Kamunyori, University of Virginia Handling Self-Modifying Code Using Software Dynamic Translation Second Place: Tao Cui, California Institute of Technology Opportunistic Source Coding for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks Third Place: Talithia Willliams, Rice University "A Spatio-Temporal Model for Bias Estimation in Radar Rainfal Data" Undergraduate Category First Place: Michael Eagle, University of North Carolina - Charlotte "Wu's Castle: Teaching For Loops and Arrays Using Games" Second Place: Jerry Backer, City University of New York "The Effect of Memory Bandwidth on Processor Performance" Third Place: Lonnie T. Parker, Georgia Institute of Technology Learning Locomotion Behaviors for Adaptation of Omni-Directional Walking Patterns ASSETS 2007 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Jun Gong Second Place: Darren Lunn SADIe: Exposing Implicit Information to Improve Accessibility MOBICOM 2007 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Shravan Rayanchu "Deconstructing Wireless Errors: Collision or 'Bad' Channel" Second Place: Mehedi Bakht and Yuan Yuan Mehedi Bakht: On the Feasibility of High-power Radios in Sensor Networks Third Place: Udayan Kumar Gender-based feature analysis in Campus-wide WLANS SIGGRAPH 2007 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Eric Brochu "Preference Galleries for BRDF Design" Second Place: Lu Liu "Surface Network Construction from Non-parallel Cross-sections" Third Place: Sumit Jain "Optimization-Based Interactive Motion Synthesis for Virtual Characters" PLDI 2007 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Colorado State University Posynomials: the Language of Optimal Tiling Second Place: David Lo, National University of Singapore A Sound and Complete Specification Miner Third Place: Ramakrishna Gummadi, University of Southern California Global Atomicity Guarantees for Sensor Networks STOC 2007 Winners Undergraduate Category Only First Place: Matei Zaharia Fast and Optimal Scheduling over Multiple Network Interfaces Second Place: Kevin Dick A Mathematical Model of Hardware Prefetching CHI 2007 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Wendy Moncur, Universities of Aberdeen & Dundee Providing Affective Information to Family and Friends Based on Social Networks Second Place: Nathan G. Freier, University of Washington Children Distinguish Conventional from Moral Violations in Interactions with a Personified Agent Third Place: Eric Lee, RWTH Aachen University Undergraduate Category First Place: Satyendra Nainwal, University of Michigan Second Place: Anthony Collins, University of Sydney Exploring Tabletop File System Interaction Winners of the 2006-2007 SRC Grand Finals Graduate Category First Place: Eugene Borodin, Stony Brook University HearSay: Context-Directed Non-Visual Web Browser Second Place: Emerson Murphy-Hill, Portland State University Improving Usability of Refactoring Tools Third Place: Bowen Hui, University of Toronto Automatic Software Customization: A Methodology for Learning Individual Preferences Undergraduate Category First Place: Anselm Grundhoefer, Bauhaus-University Weimar Real-Time Adaptive Radiometric Compensation Second Place: Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mt. Holyoke College Lightweight Economic Models for Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks Third Place: Yuan-Ting E. Huang, University of British Columbia Mobile Phone Keypad Design for Fast Chinese Text Entry by Phonetic Spelling SIGCSE 2007 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Jiang Zheng, North Carolina State University On Regression Testing COTS-based Applications Second Place: Seiji Isotani, Osaka University Using Ontologies to Develop Theory-aware Collaborative Learning Applications Third Place: Ewa Misiolek, University of Notre Dame "Two Flow Network Simplification Algorithms" Undergraduate Category First Place: Anthony Gitter, Arizona State University Biomedical Information Extraction Through Deep Parsing and Syntactic Role Matching Second Place: Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mt. Holyoke College Economic Models for Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks Third Place: Christopher Earl, Ohio Wesleyan University "Shared Shortest Paths" SC 2006 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Benjamin C Lee, Harvard University "Statistical Inference for Efficient Microarchitectural and Application Analysis" Second Place: Jik-Soo Kim, University of Maryland at College Park "Employing Peer-to-Peer Services for Robust Grid Computing" Third Place: Taiga Nakamura, University of Maryland "HPCBugBase: An Experience Base for HPC Defects" ASSETS 2006 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Joshua Hailpern, Carnegie Mellon University "WISE: A Wizard Interface Supporting Enhanced Usability" Second Place: Yevgen Borodin, Stony Brook University "A Flexible VXML Interpreter for Non-Visual Web Access" Third Place: Murni Mahmud, University Of Manchester, UK "A Mixed Method For Evaluating Input Devices With Older Persons" OOPSLA 2006 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: George Fairbanks, Carnegie Mellon University "Design Fragments Make Framework Use Easier" Second Place: Emerson Murphy-Hill, Portland State University "Improving Usability Of Refactoring Tools" Third Place: Dario Correal, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia "Definition And Execution Of Multiple Viewpoints In Workflow Processes" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2006 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Laura Chiticariu "A non-intrusive Data-driven Approach to Debugging Schema Mapping for Data Exchange" Second Place: Bowen Hui "Decision-Theoretic Intelligent Assistance" Third Place: Jhilmil Jain "Extensible and Dynamic Data Stucture Viewers in Java" Undergraduate Winner Erica Yuan-Ting Huang "Mobile phone keypad design for Fast Chinese Text Entry by Phonetic Spelling" MOBICOM 2006 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Vivek Shrivastava "On the (In)Feasibility of Fine Grained Transmit Power Control" Second Place: Robin Snader "Energy-Efficient Frame Dropping Policies for Multimedia" Third Place: Vishnu Navda "Deflect: Interference-aware Fast Path Adaptation in Wireless Mesh Networks" Undergraduate Category Michael Ford "Opportunistic Bandwidth Allocation with SDR" SIGGRAPH 2006 Winners Graduate Category First Place: Wenjin Zhou (Brown University) "Perceptual Coloring and 2D Sketching for Segmentation of Neural Pathways" Second Place: Zeki Melek (Texas A&M University) "Bending Burning Matches and Crumpling Burning Paper" Third Place: Makoto Okabe (University of Tokyo) "Illumination Brush: Interactive Design of Image-based Lighting" Undergraduate Winner Anselm Grundhoefer (Bauhaus University, Germany) "Real-Time Adaptive Radiometric Compensation" 2006 Grand Finals Winners Graduate Category First Place: Danny Dig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Toward Automatic Upgrade of Component-Based Applications" Second Place: Yaling Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Interference-aware Loop-free Routing For Mesh Networks" Third Place: David Janzen, University of Kansas "Software Architecture Improvement through Test-Driven Development" Undergraduate Category First Place: Yuki Mori, University of Tokyo "Automatic Cross-Sectioning Using 3D Field Topology Analysis" Second Place: Scott Hale, Eckerd College "Unsupervised Thresholding Morphological Processing for Automatic Fin-outline Extraction in DARWIN (Digital Analysis and Recognition of Whale Images on a Network)" Third Place: Jeffrey Adair, Hiram College "Locating, Tracking, and Interpreting Ean-13 Bar Code Waveforms in a Two-Dimensional Video Stream" SIGCSE 2006 Winners Undergraduate Category First Place: Shiri Azenkot (Pomona College) "An Evaluation of the Edit-Distance-With-Moves Similarity Metric for Comparing Genetic Sequences" Second Place: Scott Hale (Eckerd College) "Unsupervised Thresholding and Morphological Processing for Automatic Fin-outline Extraction" Third Place: Jeffrey Adair (Hiram College) "Locating, Tracking, and Interpreting EAN-13 Bar Code Waveforms in a Two-dimensional Video Stream" Graduate Category Purvi Shah (University of Houston) "Fast Fourier Transforms on High Performance Computing Systems" OOPSLA 2005 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Danny Dig Using Refractorings to Automatically Update Component-Based Applications Second Place: Uri Dekel Supporting Distributed Software Design Meetings: What Can We Learn from Co-located Meetings? Tie for Third Place: David Janzen Software Architecture Improvement through Test-Driven Development and Ruth Lennon Optimization of Service Provision for Composite Website Services (CWS) SIGGRAPH 2005 Winners Undergraduate Category First Place: Yuki Mori Second Place: Toshiya Hachisuka Graduate Category First Place: Tiberiu Popa Second Place: Daniel Keefe Third Place: Masanori Kakimoto MobiCom 2005 Winners Graduate Category Only First Place: Joel Koshy Second Place: Albert F. Harris, III Third Place: Yaling Yang 2005 Grand Finals Winners Graduate Category First Place: Jane Tougas, Dalhousie University Updating the Partial SVD: Making LSI Run Faster Second Place: Kulesh Shanmugasundaram, Polytechnic University ForNet: A Distributed Forensic Network Third Place: Tao Xie, University of Washington at Seattle Automatic Identification of Common and Special Object-Oriented Unit Tests Undergraduate Category First Place: Eric Bodden, RWTH Aachen University Efficient and Expressive Runtime Verification for Java Second Place: Spiros Xanthos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Clustering Object-Oriented Software Systems Using Spectral Graph Partitioning Third Place: Kamil Wnuk, Harvey Mudd College Dense 3D Mapping with Monocular Vision

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