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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 17, 2008
Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Research Symposium! More than 100 attendees voted in the People's Choice Award category, and more than 1,000 Krispy Kreme donuts were consumed.
Judges 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.
James Robinson
"MANET Routing: Using Manifolds and the WDL"
Advisor: Santosh Vempala
Megan Elmore
"Interdomain Path Splicing with BGP"
Advisors: Nick Feamster and Santosh Vempala
Kathryn Long
"Restructuring Knowledge Among Different Robots"
Advisors: Zsolt Kira and Ron Arkin
Brittany Duncan and Sweta Vajjhala
"Can a Robot Learn a Model of a Human's Actions?"
Advisors: Alan Wagner and Ron Arkin
Andrew Bardagjy, Roman Shtylman, Stefan Posey, Jason Kulpe, and Ben Johnson
"Development of a Small Size Robocup Team"
Advisor: Chris Paredis
Scott Gilliand
"Curveball: Using Grip and Motion to Interact with Modal UIs"
Advisor: Thad Starner
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Christina Lacey
"Second Mind: A Wiki Environment for Authoring Virtual Characters"
Advisors: Manish Mehta and Ashwin Ram