Awards

There are several awards at the Tapia Celebration!

Student Awards

Tapia Conference 2007 Poster Awards

The Tapia Conference poster session, which took place on Monday, October 15, 2007 from 7-10pm, provided students an opportunity to present their latest research results and methodologies to a wide conference audience and to network at the same time. This year, the poster competition is part of the Association for Computing Machinery's Student Research Competition (SRC), with the top three posters in both undergraduate and graduate categories advancing to the ACM SRC Grand Finals. The Tapia Conference 2007 presented six poster awards—three to undergraduate authors, and three to graduate student authors—with prizes of $1000, $500, and $250 for first, second, and third place, respectively. Winners were announced at the awards banquet on Tuesday, October 16, 2007.

Poster Winners

Title: Handling Self-Modifying Code Using Software Dynamic Translation
Author: Joy Kamunyori
Affiliation: University of Virginia

      (Winner, 1st place, graduate division)


Title: Opportunistic Source Coding for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Tao Cui
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology

      (Winner, 2nd place, graduate division)


Title: A Spatio-Temporal Model for Bias Estimation in Radar Rainfall Data
Author: Talithia Williams
Affiliation: Rice University

      (Winner, 3rd place, graduate division)



Title: Wu's Castle: Teaching for loops and arrays using games
Author: Michael Eagle
Affiliation: University of North Carolina - Charlotte

      (Winner, 1st place, undergraduate division)


Title: The Effect of Memory Bandwidth on Processor Performance
Author: Jerry Backer
Affiliation: City University of New York

      (Winner, 2nd place, undergraduate division)


Title: Learning Locomotion Behaviors for Adaptation of Omni-Directional Walking Patterns
Author: Lonnie Parker
Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology

      (Winner, 3rd place, undergraduate division)

Click here for a list of all of the accepted posters.

 

Tapia Conference 2007 Robotics Competition Winner

The robotics competition pitted teams of students against each other as they sent their programmed robots on “search and rescue” tasks in simulated and physical disaster environments that have applications in homeland security and national defense. A team of judges selected winners during the conference, and winners were announced at the awards banquet on Tuesday, October 16, 2007.

Robotics Competition Winners

Robotics Competition Winner:
Team Name: HMC Escher
University: Harvey Mudd College
Team Members: Vedika Khemani, Jessica Wen, Rachel Arce-Jaeger
Advisor: Zach Dodds

Robotics Technical Achievement:
Team Name: Nexus 6
University: Simon Fraser University
Team Members: Angelica Lim, Angelina Fabbro, Kathleen Tsoukalas, Lorin Beer
Advisor:Richard Vaughan

 

2007 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing

The Tapia Award recognizes an individual with outstanding achievements in scientific scholarship, a strong civic presence within the scientific community, and a dedication to the attainment of true ethnic diversity in computing and related disciplines. The recipients are devoted to the principle of equity in both theory and practice, and will have demonstrated leadership in applying creative solutions to the difficult social, cultural, technical and political problems of diversifying computing.

2005 Tapia Award Recipient: Valerie Taylor, Head and Stewart & Stevenson Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A & M University

2003 Tapia Award Recipient: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, University Regents Professor and Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University

2001 Tapia Award Recipient: Bryant York, Professor, Computer Science, and Co-director, Center for Learning and Adaptive Systems, Portland State University

edited by mks, 10-20-2007, 9:59 AM, CST