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One of the most valuable aspects of the ACM SRC was the opportunity to receive constructive feedback from seasoned experts and fellow researchers. Interacting with professionals from a broad spectrum of fields expanded my network in meaningful ways. Additionally, learning about my peers’ projects offered fresh perspectives. The ACM SRC stands out as a pivotal moment in my academic journey, significantly contributing to my personal and professional growth. 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The ACM SRC provides participants a chance to meet other students and to get direct feedback on their work from experts. This year's competitions took place at 21 participating ACM SIG conferences, sponsored by SIGACCESS, SIGAPP, SIGARCH, SIGBED, SIGCHI, SIGCOMM, SIGCSE, SIGDA,SIGDOC, SIGGRAPH, SIGHPC, SIGMETRICS, SIGMICRO, SIGMOBILE, SIGOPS, SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT and SIGSPATIAL as well as TAPIA which included more than 323 student participants. 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line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1358936">TWEND: Twisting and Bending as New Interaction Gesture in Mobile Devices</a></p> <p><strong>Zhiquan Yeo </strong>- <em>Carnegie Mellon University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.chi2008.org/">CHI 08</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1358921">Emotional Instant Messaging with KIM</a></p> <p><strong>Neha Singh</strong> - <em>IIT Bombay</em><br /> <a href="http://gracehopper.org/2008/">Grace Hopper 08</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2008/neha-singh.pdf">Efficiently Handling Wildcard Queries in XML</a></p> <p><strong>Alice (Xuexin) Zhu</strong> - <em>Harvey Mudd College</em><br /> <a href="http://gracehopper.org/2008/">Grace Hopper 08 </a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2008/alice-zhu.pdf">HoverCross – A Seamless Transition Between Drawing and Editing</a></p> <p><strong>Sarah M. Loos</strong> - <em>Indiana University</em><br /> <a href="http://gracehopper.org/2008/">Grace Hopper 08</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/sarah-m-loos.pdf">Variations of Strassen's Matrix Multiplication Algorithms</a></p> <p><strong>Tal Rusak</strong> - <em>Cornell University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.cs.duke.edu/sigcse08/index.html">SIGCSE 2008 Winners</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2008/tal-rusak.pdf">On the Structure of Low-Power Wireless Links</a></p> <p><strong>Michael Liberatore</strong> - <em>The College of Wooster</em><br /> <a href="http://sc08.supercomputing.org/">SIGCSE 09</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/michael-liberatore.pdf">Comparing Numerical Integration Methods in a Simulator for the Draping Behavior of Cloth</a></p> <p><strong>Sara Voss</strong> - Coe College<br /> <a href="http://sc08.supercomputing.org/">SIGCSE 09</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/sara-voss.pdf">A GPU-Accelerated Method for Estimating the Desolvation Energy of Protein Complexes</a></p> <p><strong>Aaron Gember</strong> - <em>Marquette University</em><br /> <a href="http://sc08.supercomputing.org/">SIGCSE 09</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/aaron-gember.pdf">Real-Time TCP for Embedded Devices</a></p> <h2 id="h-graduate-student-winners">GRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS</h2> <p><strong>Xu Liu </strong>- <em>University of Maryland</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/archive_index.php">Assets 08 </a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2008/xu-liu.pdf">Mobile Currency Reader for People with Visual Impairments</a></p> <p><strong>Mohammed E. Hoque</strong> - <em>MIT</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/archive_index.php">Assets 08</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1414554">Analysis of Speech Properties of Neurotypicals and Individuals Diagnosed with Autism and Down's Syndrome</a></p> <p><strong>William Odom</strong> - University of Indiana<br /> <a href="http://www.chi2008.org/">CHI 08</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1358929">Personal Inventories: Toward Durable Human-Product Relationships</a></p> <p><strong>Ye Kyaw Thu</strong> -<em> Waseda University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.chi2008.org/">CHI 08</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1358930">Positional Prediction: Consonant Cluster Prediction Text Entry Method for Burmese</a></p> <p><strong>Ramya Raghavendra</strong> - <em>University of California, Santa Barbara</em><br /> <a href="http://gracehopper.org/2008/">Grace Hopper 08 </a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1402975">A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks</a></p> <p><strong>Candy Yiu</strong> -<em> Portland State University</em><br /> <a href="http://gracehopper.org/2008/">Grace Hopper 08</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/candy-yiu.pdf">60GHZ High Speed Wireless Architecture</a></p> <p><strong>Yves Petinot</strong> - <em>Columbia University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigweb.org/ht08/competition.html/">Hypertext 08</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/yves-petinot.pdf">Context-based URL Summarization</a></p> <p><strong>Charlie Hargood</strong> - <em>University of Southampton</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigweb.org/ht08/competition.html/">Hypertext 08</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/charlie-hargood.pdf">A Thematic Model for Narrative Generation</a></p> <p><strong>Stratis Ioanidis</strong> - <em>University of Toronto</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008/">MobiCom 08</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2008/stratis-ioannidis.pdf">On the Distribution of Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network</a></p> <p><strong>Samuel Nelson</strong> - <em>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008/">MobiCom 08</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/nelson.pdf">Encounter-Based Routing in DTNs</a></p> <p><strong>Dimitrios Koutsonikolas</strong> - <em>Purdue University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008/">MobiCom 08</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/dimitrios-koutsonikolas.pdf">XCOR: Synergistic Interflow Network Coding and Opportunistic Routing</a></p> <p><strong>Kevin Bierhoff</strong> - <em>Carnegie Mellon University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2008/">OOPSLA 2008</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1449906&CFID=837238905&CFTOKEN=90277597">Checking API Protocol Compliance in Java</a></p> <p><strong>Michael Achenbach</strong> - <em>University of Aarhus</em><br /> <a href="http://pldi2008.cs.ucr.edu/">PLDI 08</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/michael-achenbach.pdf">Hybrid Program Analysis for Error Detection</a></p> <p><strong>Max Grosse</strong> - <em>Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar</em><br /> <a href="http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/">SIGGRAPH 08</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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