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There are several awards at the Tapia Celebration!Student AwardsTapia 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 WinnersTitle: Handling Self-Modifying Code Using Software Dynamic Translation (Winner, 1st place, graduate division) Title: Opportunistic Source Coding for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks (Winner, 2nd place, graduate division) Title: A Spatio-Temporal Model for Bias Estimation in Radar Rainfall Data (Winner, 3rd place, graduate division) Title: Wu's Castle: Teaching for loops and arrays using games (Winner, 1st place, undergraduate division) Title: The Effect of Memory Bandwidth on Processor Performance (Winner, 2nd place, undergraduate division) Title: Learning Locomotion Behaviors for Adaptation of Omni-Directional Walking Patterns (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: Robotics Technical Achievement:
2007 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying ComputingThe 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. |
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