AWARDS and PRIZES
Cisco Pioneer Award ($350): OpenComm
- Makoto Bentz, Najla Elmachtoub, Risa Naka, Han-wei Kung, Jason Frye, Nora Ng-quinn, Jason Xu
Citi Creativity Award ($350): Terra-DACTYL
- Samuel Dannemiller, Ryan De haas, Mark Mattsson, Annie Bai
Goldman Sachs Award ($350): Fab@Home Personal Fabricator
- Jeffrey Lipton, Christopher Hogan, Karina Sobhani, Mathew Boban, Nicholas Chartrain, Jeremy Cohen
Morgan Stanley Award for Innovation ($350): Context-Aware Citation Recommendation
- Cooper Jun hui Erh, Sarah Nguyen, Kyu-young Kim, Eric Gold, Hema Koppula
- Tiffany Ng, Edgar Garcia, Jeremy Blum, Joseph Ballerini
- Advisor: Francois Guimbretiere
EMC Big Data Award ($250): Social Network Discovery of Computational Sustainability Community
- Jason Marcell, Karan Kurani
- Advisor: Carla Gomes
GE Imagination in IT Award ($250): OpenComm
- Makoto Bentz, Najla Elmachtoub, Risa Naka, Han-wei Kung, Jason Frye, Nora Ng-quinn, Jason Xu
Google Award for Computing Everywhere (Changing the world one bit at a time) ($250): Vera
- John Pollak, Philip Adams, Daniela Retelny, Shao-yu Liang, Eric Baumer, Vera Khovanskaya
Lockheed Martin Innovation Award ($250): Hearing Colors
- Andrew Li, Chazman Childers, Sahar Shirazi, Cynthia Vella
- Advisor: Graeme Bailey
Yahoo! Student Research Award ($250): Vera
- John Pollak, Philip Adams, Daniela Retelny, Shao-yu Liang, Eric Baumer, Vera Khovanskaya
"Where’s the BOOM?" Award ($500): Paper Popup Simulator
- Jonathan Hirschberg, Michael Tomaine, Roopashree Holalakere sreenivasa rao, Supasorn Suwajanakorn
People’s Choice Award ($500): Cornell Human Flight Project
- Christopher Ames, Nidhi Rathi, Joshua Kusnitz, Alan Yamamoto, Melanie Naman, Robert Kelbe, Ravi Surdhar, Edan Soroker, Timothy Kim, Kevin Boyle, Katie Ingalls, Andrew Imm, Ian Perry, Ethan Chumley, Min Choi, John Mannix, Michael Mastakas, Yu Kambe
Sponsors' Award Winners
The Sponsors' Award recipient(s) are selected by our Sponsors. The criteria for these awards are quite broad, and include novelty, execution (quality of engineering, performance, difficulty), presentation, and usefulness, especially social benefits.
"Where's the BOOM" Award
The "Where's the BOOM" award is judged by faculty from the Computer Science Department. The BOOM of "Where's the BOOM" means "Brains on our Machines", and it focuses on the computing aspects of the project (software algorithms, software engineering). Criteria for the "Where's the BOOM" award include novelty, elegance, simplicity, and appropriateness of algorithms, and overall software engineering. To be eligible for this award, the presenter must have displayed a brief (50 words or less) description of the computing aspects of the project, clearly labeled "Where's the BOOM".
People's Choice Award
The People's Choice Award recipient is selected by the attendees according to whatever criteria each attendee sees fit to use.