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Error processing SSI file			U.S. Students Capture Top Prizes An awards ceremony at the Intel Student Research Contest brought together (from left) Program Manager Kimberly Sills, third-place winner Ankur Kalra, Intel Senior Fellow Gene Meieran, second-place winner Sara Parker, first-place winner Eugene Lee, and Tim Saponas, manager of worldwide higher education programs for Intel® Innovation in Education. Months of extensive research in computer graphics paid off this spring for a Cornell University senior who earned top honors and a US$5,000 prize in the Intel Student Research Contest (ISRC). For first-place winner Eugene Lee and the 18 other finalists from U.S. colleges and universities, the final round of the contest offered a chance to explain and defend their innovative research to a panel of technical experts from Intel during the two-day event in Oregon. "The goals of the program are to stimulate student inventiveness and give students the experience of doing a small-scale research project," says Kimberly Sills, program manager for the ISRC. "It gives the students an opportunity to experience research, and possibly encourages them to pursue advanced degrees." Each student who reaches the final round of the contest is matched with an Intel technical adviser. Finalists also receive funding from Intel to support their research during the nine months leading up to the competition. During the final round of ISRC, student researchers explained their projects to technical experts from Intel. Lee's winning project, "Hardware Acceleration of the Edge-and-Point System for Interactive Rendering," tackles the challenge of producing high-quality, interactive rendering of sophisticated graphics, such as those used in movies or computer games. After graduating from Cornell with a degree in computer science, he plans to work for Microsoft and eventually pursue graduate studies. Lee's reaction to winning? "It's still somewhat of a shock," he said. Second-place winner, Sara Parker from Cornell University, won US$3,000 for her materials science research, "Novel Light-Emitting Devices Utilizing Ionic Liquids." Her research focuses on a technology that could eventually replace liquid crystal devices (LCD) or overhead fluorescent lights. She plans to pursue graduate studies in materials science and engineering. Third-place winner Ankur Kalra from Georgia Institute of Technology won US$2,000 for his computer science research, "Multi-Modal Capture of Complex Human Motion Using Video and Marker Data." His research focuses on overcoming the time-intensive challenges of creating computer-generated animation characters. He plans to pursue graduate studies and work in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Eugene Lee's winning project tackled the challenge of producing high-quality rendering of sophisticated graphics. Now in its third year in the United States, the ISRC has expanded to include separate competitions for university students in India and the People's Republic of China. To learn more about the ISRC, go to www.intel.com/research/awards. 2004 Contest Finalists Congratulations to the 19 student finalists for the 2003-04 Intel Student Research Contest. Students worked with an academic advisor and an assigned Intel Technical Assistant on research projects. Abhinav Agrawal, Princeton University, Dr. Martonosi Vulnerability of Processors to dI/dt and Thermal Stressmarks Kunal Bagga, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Dr. Roth Real Time Pre-Processing of Open Domain Question Answering Nick Chiang, California Institute of Technology, Dr. Atwater Photophysical Characterization of Silicon Nanocrystals for Device Applications Patrick Chiu, University of Florida, Dr. Sinnott Study of Properties of (C12TAB) Micelle Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation Wei Lien Dang, California Institute of Technology, Dr. Scherer Carbon Nanotube Field Emitters for Miniature Mass Spectrometers and Nanoklystrons Jonathan Foley, University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Beatty CMOS Based Immunoassay Saad Godil, University of Texas at Austin, Dr. John Power and Performance Characterization of Emerging Workloads on the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor Elian Haliman, Purdue University, Dr. Aref Pervasive Computing on Campus Ankur Kalra, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Rehg Multi-Modal Capture of Complex Human Motion Using Video and Marker Data Sam Larson, University of Washington, Dr. Mamishev Investigation of Cooling Micro Electronics with Corona Propulsion Eugene Lee, Cornell University, Dr. Bala Hardware Acceleration of the Edge-and-Point System for Interactive Rendering Blake Nickles, University of Michigan, Dr. Goldman Optimizing Nitrogen Incorporation Into GaInNAs for High Speed Electronics Sara Parker, Cornell University, Dr. Malliaras Novel Light-Emitting Devices Utilizing Ionic Liquids David Parkinson, Northwestern University, Dr. Ismail Pass Transistor Logic of Carbon Nanotubes Priam Pillai, University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Chrzan Computational Modeling of Dislocation Dynamics in Ni3Al Nick Rudawski, University of Michigan, Dr. Goldman Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of GaAsN Thin Films Nicole Staskiewicz, University of Florida, Dr. Law Gallium Nitride Based MEMS Sensors Dustin Wright, University of Minnesota, Dr. Goumeliotis Communication of Multiple Robots in a Search and Retrieval Eric Yieh, Stanford University, Dr. Pease Field and Photo Emission From Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube (SWNT) Devices
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