Winners, SRC 2007 - 2008

Supercomputing 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Junqing Sun - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Title of Submission: Obtaining High Performance via Lower-Precision FPGA Floating Point Units

Second Place:

Timothy Hartley - Ohio State University

Title of Submission: Storing and Searching Massive Scale-free Graphs Author Information

Third Place:

Alexandru Iosup - Delft University of Technology

Title of Submission: GrenchMark: A Framework for Testing Large-Scale Distributed Computing Systems

OOPSLA 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Otavio Lemos

Title of Submission: CodeGenie: A Tool for Test-Driven Source Code Search

Second Place:

Marwan Abi-Antoun

Title of Submission: Assuring the Execution Architecture of Object-Oriented Programs using Ownership Domain Annotations

Third Place:

Emerson Murphy-Hill

Title of Submission: Activating Refactorings Faster

Grace Hopper 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Himabindu Pucha - Purdue University

Title of Submission: Exploiting Similarity for Multi-Source Downloads Using File Handprints~

Second Place:

Wanmin Wu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title of Submission: Towards Multi-Party Collaboration in 3D Tele-Immersive Environments

Third Place:

Amrita Pati

Title of Submission: Genomic Signatures from DNA Word Graphs

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Neha Singh

Tapia 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Joy Kamunyori - University of Virginia

Title of Submission: Handling Self-Modifying Code Using Software Dynamic Translation

Second Place:

Tao Cui - California Institute of Technology

Title of Submission: Opportunistic Source Coding for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks

Third Place:

Talithia Willliams - Rice University

Title of Submission: A Spatio-Temporal Model for Bias Estimation in Radar Rainfal Data

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Michael Eagle - University of North Carolina - Charlotte

Title of Submission: Wu's Castle: Teaching For Loops and Arrays Using Games

Second Place:

Jerry Backer - City University of New York

Title of Submission: The Effect of Memory Bandwidth on Processor Performance

Third Place:

Lonnie T. Parker - Georgia Institute of Technology

Title of Submission: Learning Locomotion Behaviors for Adaptation of Omni-Directional Walking Patterns

ASSETS 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Jun Gong

Second Place:

Darren Lunn

Title of Submission: SADIe: Exposing Implicit Information to Improve Accessibility

MOBICOM 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Shravan Rayanchu

Title of Submission: Deconstructing Wireless Errors: Collision or 'Bad' Channel

Second Place:

Mehedi Bakht and Yuan Yuan

Title of Submission: Mehedi Bakht: On the Feasibility of High-power Radios in Sensor Networks

Third Place:

Udayan Kumar

Title of Submission: Gender-based feature analysis in Campus-wide WLANS

SIGGRAPH 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Eric Brochu

Title of Submission: Preference Galleries for BRDF Design

Second Place:

Lu Liu

Title of Submission: Surface Network Construction from Non-parallel Cross-sections

Third Place:

Sumit Jain

Title of Submission: Optimization-Based Interactive Motion Synthesis for Virtual Characters

PLDI 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana - Colorado State University

Title of Submission: Posynomials: the Language of Optimal Tiling

Second Place:

David Lo - National University of Singapore

Title of Submission: A Sound and Complete Specification Miner

Third Place:

Ramakrishna Gummadi - University of Southern California

Title of Submission: Global Atomicity Guarantees for Sensor Networks

STOC 2007 Winners

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Matei Zaharia

Title of Submission: Fast and Optimal Scheduling over Multiple Network Interfaces

Second Place:

Kevin Dick

Title of Submission: A Mathematical Model of Hardware Prefetching

CHI 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Wendy Moncur - Universities of Aberdeen & Dundee

Title of Submission: Providing Affective Information to Family and Friends Based on Social Networks

Second Place:

Nathan G. Freier - University of Washington

Title of Submission: 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

Title of Submission: Exploring Tabletop File System Interaction

SIGCSE 2007 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Jiang Zheng - North Carolina State University

Title of Submission: On Regression Testing COTS-based Applications

Second Place:

Seiji Isotani - Osaka University

Title of Submission: Using Ontologies to Develop Theory-aware Collaborative Learning Applications

Third Place:

Ewa Misiolek- University of Notre Dame

Title of Submission: Two Flow Network Simplification Algorithms

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Anthony Gitter - Arizona State University

Title of Submission: Biomedical Information Extraction Through Deep Parsing and Syntactic Role Matching

Second Place:

Maria A. Kazandjieva - Mt. Holyoke College

Title of Submission: Economic Models for Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks

Third Place:

Christopher Earl- Ohio Wesleyan University

Title of Submission: Shared Shortest Paths

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