AWARD WINNERS


Mark Weiser Award

"uWave: Accelerometer-based Personalized Gesture Recognition and Its Applications", Jiayang Liu, Zhen Wang, Lin Zhong, Rice University, USA; Jehan Wickramasuriya, Venu Vasudevan, Motorola, Inc., USA

Google Awards

First Prize ($1,000 prize and Google digital picture frame):
"Exploiting Semantics for Event Detection Systems", Ronen Vaisenberg, University of California, Irvine, USA

 Innovation Award ($500 prize and Google digital picture frame):
"Towards Shrink-Wrapped Security: A Taxonomy of Security-Relevant Context", Gleneesha Johnson, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Potential Impact Award (Google digital picture frame):
"Parasitic Tracking: Enabling Ubiquitous Tracking through Existing Infrastructure", Manuel Huber, Technische Universität München, Germany



Best Demo Award

"What's up: P2P Spontaneous Social Networking", Mehdi Mani, Anh-Minh Ngyuen and Noël Crespi, Institut TELECOM SudParis, France

 

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