student Maurice Peltier, '05, placed third in the national round
of the 2005 Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational. The
competition, sponsored by Microsoft, recognizes the creative
and technological innovations of students around the world.
The students' winning entry, eVt, strives to resolve communi-
cation barriers such as language or geography by enabling the
use of technologies such as speech-to-text, text-to-speech and
language translation in series with such devices as Smartphones,
PDAs, and laptops. The team received a cash award of $2,000,
plus $1,000 for placing first in the regional competition.
in the Computing Research Association
(CRA) 2005 Outstanding Undergraduate
Award competition. The competition
draws hundreds of applicants annually
from the United States and Canada.
Top male and female entrants receive a
$1,000 cash prize. Grimes' research in
the area of information retrieval focused
on identification and visualization of
language patterns in biology papers and
the use of support vector machines for
classifying diagrams. This work resulted
in three published papers, including one
as first author that she presented at the
IEEE Bioinformatics Conference at Stanford
University in 2003. In the area of human-
computer interaction, Grimes investigated the display of
information on mobile devices in order to maintain privacy.
In addition, she served as a mentor for computer science students
at Northeastern, as a mentor for high-school students through
a local higher-education resource center, and as a computer-
technology instructor for a local inner-city community center.
an undergraduate. His Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook,
published by O'Reilly Media, Inc., is an instruction manual on
pated in two co-ops under the supervision of Director of
Technology David Blank-Edelman, during which he began
developing a large system for managing the college's network
and hosts and writing tests for the system using Perl. He then
completed a directed study with Associate Dean Richard
Rasala, in which he wrote the first three chapters of his book.
He teamed up with co-author chromatic to complete the book
and submit it to O'Reilly, which published it last spring.
Langworth is now teaching a six-week course in Perl through
the Northeastern chapter of ACM's Student Workshop Series.
Undergraduate Research Award. Silva worked for several
years with faculty and graduate students in the Programming
Research Laboratory. His efforts resulted in publications in
two important conferences, the 2003 Scheme Conference and
2004 PyCON (the Python Conference). He also had extensive
research collaborations with IBM Research and spent four
months at IBM in Japan working on clonable Java virtual
machines. He plans to pursue his PhD in computer science
and has been accepted to top doctoral programs, including
the University of Washington, the University of Chicago,
Brown University, Harvard University, and MIT.
research positions around the country:
Purdue University at Indianapolis
State University, San Luis Obispo
Institute and State University