CSIDC2000 Awards Ceremony IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition

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CSIDC-2000 Awards Ceremony IEEE Computer Society
International Design Competition

• Bruce Shriver
• Chairman, CSIDC-2000

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Agenda
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The Vision Statement

• The CSIDC will
• advance excellence in education by having
  undergraduate student teams design and implement
  computer-based solutions to real-world problems
• impact undergraduate curricula

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CSIDC Goals

• Establish a competition that is prestigious,
  technically substantive, and well worth the time
  and effort to participate
• Improve the dialogue between universities and
  colleges and professionals in industry and
  government

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The IEEE Computer Society

• Remarks by Guylaine Pollock President of the
  Computer Society

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Thanks to the CSIDC-2000Technology Sponsors

• AMD
• Caldera Systems
• Calluna Technology
• General Software
• M-Systems, Inc.
• Metrowerks, Inc.
• Microsoft
• Pervasive Software
• QNX Software Systems
• VersaLogic Corp.

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Thanks to the CSIDC-2000Financial Sponsors

• AMD
• HP
• Intel
• Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs)
• Microsoft
• Motorola
• NSF (US National Science Foundation)
• SAIC (Science Applications International
  Corporation)
• Sun Microsystems

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Special Thanks to

• Who were those people who gave unselfishly of
  their time and effort and without whom this event
  would not have occurred ?
• Who were those people who gave insightful advice
  and encouragement ?

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Special Thanks to

• Dick Eckhouse
• Ed Gallizzi
• Mike Lutz
• Anne Marie Kelly and Stacy Saul
• John Reimer
• Atiq Raza
• Mark Morneault
• T. Michael Elliott

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And thanks to the many, many other people involved

• Numerous Volunteers from academia, industry, and
  government
• 60 members of the Submission Evaluation Teams
• Numerous Computer Society Staff
• Bob Care
• John Daniel
• Dan Gibson
• Mary-Louise Piner
• Mary-Kate Rada
• Kristine Weiand
• Steve Wilcox
• And some folks from Eckerd College
• Jarrod Smith
• Melanie Wright

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The Health Care Information Appliance Project

• The Health Care Information-Appliance Project
  required the students to develop an informal
  functional specification and then design and
  implement a prototype Information Appliance (IA)
  aimed at improving public health by helping
  people become more directly involved in their own
  health care. The IA should allow a person to
  enter, access, display, store, and manipulate
  information about health related issues.

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Evaluation of Submissions
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Judging Panel

• Otto Anshus, University of Tromsø
• Mario Barbacci, CMU
• Peter Capek, IBM T J Watson Research Center
• Alan Clements, University of Teeside
• Dick Eckhouse, U. Mass, Boston
• Ed Gallizzi, Eckerd College
• Bill Gardner, Trinity Western University
• Walter Helbig, PCSEC, LLC
• Elif Karsigill, Yildiz Technical University
• Bill Michalson, WPI
• Iwao Toda, Fujitsu Laboratories

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What are the teams competing for?

• The prestige of winning the competition
• Financial Prizes
• The students determine how the prize money is
  distributed among the team members
• Financial Awards to establish IEEE Computer
  Society Financial Aid Funds for undergraduate
  computer science and engineering students

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Additionally

• Each teams project report and presentation will
  be posted on the Computer Societys CSIDC
  web-site
• Each student on a CSIDC World Finals team also
  receives a 1-year membership in the IEEE and the
  Computer Society

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Financial Prize Amounts
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Now, on to the awards

• The five honorable mention teams are (in
  alphabetical order)
• The 5th place team is
• The 4th place team is
• The 3rd place team is
• The 2nd place team is
• The 1st place team is

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Final Remarks Personal Hopes

• That team members might be inspired to undertake
  collaborative work crossing both institutional
  and national boundaries
• That some of the projects might be the basis of
  longer term investigations by both the team
  members and the faculty mentors
• That the 1st CSIDC might indeed be the beginning
  of an ongoing series of relevant, substantive,
  and important competitions