{"51272":{"#nid":"51272","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2008 UROC Symposium a Manifold Success","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to the winners of the 2008 Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Research Symposium! More than 100 attendees voted in the People\u0027s Choice Award category, and more than 1,000 Krispy Kreme donuts were consumed.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJudges at the annual event were: Rosa Arriaga, senior research scientist, SIC;  Richard Fujimoto, chair, CSE; Hyesoon Kim, assistant professor, SCS; Spencer Rugaber, senior research scientist, SCS; Andrea Thomaz, assistant professor, SIC.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003EJUDGES\u0027 AWARDS\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EFirst Place ($750)\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJames Robinson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022MANET Routing: Using Manifolds and the WDL\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisor: Santosh Vempala\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ESecond Place ($300)\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMegan Elmore\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Interdomain Path Splicing with BGP\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisors: Nick Feamster and Santosh Vempala\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EThird Place ($100)\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKathryn Long\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Restructuring Knowledge Among Different Robots\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisors: Zsolt Kira and Ron Arkin\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003EPEOPLE\u0027S CHOICE AWARDS\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EFirst Place\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBrittany Duncan and Sweta Vajjhala\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Can a Robot Learn a Model of a Human\u0027s Actions?\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisors: Alan Wagner and Ron Arkin\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ESecond Place\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Bardagjy, Roman Shtylman, Stefan Posey, Jason Kulpe, and Ben Johnson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Development of a Small Size Robocup Team\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisor: Chris Paredis\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EThird Place (tie)\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EScott Gilliand\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Curveball: Using Grip and Motion to Interact with Modal UIs\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisor: Thad Starner\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eand\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChristina Lacey\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Second Mind: A Wiki Environment for Authoring Virtual Characters\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisors: Manish Mehta and Ashwin Ram\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to the winners of the 2008 UROC! Seventeen teams competed for cash and prizes in this year\u0027s annual  Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing Research Symposium, which took place April 16.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:41:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:40","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}