SRC Grand Finalists 2008

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Eugene Borodin - Stony Brook University
ASSETS 2006
    Title of Submission: HearSay: Context­Directed Non­Visual Web Browser

Second Place:
Emerson Murphy-Hill  - Portland State University
OOPSLA 2006
   Title of Submission: Improving Usability of Refactoring Tools

Third Place:
Bowen Hui - University of Toronto
Grace Hopper 2006
  Title of Submission: Automatic Software Customization: A Methodology for Learning Individual Preferences

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Anselm Grundhoefer - Bauhaus-University Weimar
SIGGRAPH 2006
  Title of Submission: Real­Time Adaptive Radiometric Compensation

Second Place:
Maria A. Kazandjieva - Mt. Holyoke College
SIGCSE 2007
  Title of Submission: Lightweight Economic Models for Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks

Third Place:
Yuan-Ting E. Huang - University of British Columbia
Grace Hopper 2006
  Title of Submission: Mobile Phone Keypad Design for Fast Chinese Text Entry by Phonetic Spelling

ACM Case Studies

Written by leading domain experts for software engineers, ACM Case Studies provide an in-depth look at how software teams overcome specific challenges by implementing new technologies, adopting new practices, or a combination of both. Often through first-hand accounts, these pieces explore what the challenges were, the tools and techniques that were used to combat them, and the solution that was achieved.

For Practitioners

The DevOps Phenomenon

ACM Queue’s “Research for Practice” serves up expert-curated guides to the best of computing research, and relates these breakthroughs to the challenges that software engineers face every day. This installment, “The DevOps Phenomenon” by Anna Wiedemann, Nicole Forsgren, Manuel Wiesche, Heiko Gewald and Helmut Krcmar, gives an overview of stories from across the industry about software organizations overcoming early hurdles of adopting DevOps practices, and coming out on the other side with tighter integration between software and operations teams, faster delivery times for new software features, and achieving higher levels of stability.

Why I Belong to ACM

Hear from Bryan Cantrill, vice president of engineering at Joyent, Ben Fried chief information officer at Google, and Theo Schlossnagle, OmniTI founder on why they are members of ACM.