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ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) honored the Grand Finals winners of its rapidly expanding Student Research Competition (SRC) with awards and cash prizes for achievements in computing research. The winners, from colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, presented original research on a range of topics, including computer graphics, programming tools, wireless networks, mobile phone design, non-visual web browsers, biomedical information extraction, data exchange, and grid computing. The awards were presented on June 9, at the 2007 ACM Awards Banquet in San Diego, Calif.
The competition was held at seven major ACM Special Interest Group conferences within the last year. Each SRC featured research projects produced by an international array of graduate and undergraduate students in computer science. Nearly 200 students applied to participate in the SRC events this year.
ACMs Student Research Program is sponsored by Microsoft Research. Mark Lewin, who directs Microsoft Researchs partnership with ACM for the SRC, noted that Microsoft Research want to encourage students to pursue careers in computer science research. The SRC is a vibrant program that offers students a rich and rewarding first experience in preparing and presenting research in real-world conference settings as well as a warm welcome to the research community, said Lewin, Program Manager for Microsoft Researchs External Research & Programs group.
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They call themselves Team Yantrikz ? a group of students pursuing mechanical engineering at the Indian School of Mines (ISM) in Dhanbad, but thinking big, striving to compete, and struggling for originality. Yantrikz member Nitin Modi, a third year student, recalls advice that a senior student gave him about college competitions. Go ahead, the senior told him, surf the net, read text books, scan journals. But when you get a problem, construct your own solutions.
So when they got an opportunity to participate in an undergraduate engineering competition, the Yantrikz team members decided to devise novel ways to design a low-budget,
CNBC India and LG Electronics, in association with NIIT and Seagate announces the West Zone finalists for ``The CNBC Complete Manager 1999''selected through an all-India contest for the managers of tomorrow. The West Zone finals held on November 11, 1999, at Mumbai Education Trust, saw A N Seshadari (IIM, Ahmedabad) emerge as the winner. Siddharth Suryanarayan (S P Jain, Mumbai) was the 1st runner up and Sudhendra Sharma (MET. Mumbai) was the 2nd runner up. These finalists will represent the West at the national finals to be held on November 25 in New Delhi.
Award-winning Bo Lings Fine Chinese Cuisine, with about 150 employees at six area restaurants, has mastered the art of Chinese cooking.
But owners Richard and Theresa Ng have found that operating the business can sometimes present stressful challenges. Last year, for example, the Ngs faced an important decision: Was the time right to further expand their business?
They turned to an innovative strategic planning resource — and got advice, for free.
A group of five students in a University of Missouri-Kansas City capstone MBA course studied the situation and in December made a recommendation: No, not yet.
The students also presented the Ngs with
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research was one of the most innovative Institute in India. The institute has projects in the fall instead of the normal summer projects like most companies, trainees during the summer. Fall-projects to ensure that students more time and classrooms are able to pay more attention to the industry. SP Jain Institute of Management and Research has its centre of Dubai.
It is the only institution selected, the Aspen Institute to formulate, as MBA-training should change to the social sector. Students, access to the institute for their specialties and choice of disciplines and projects. Students have
Microsoft Research in India has officially started its activities and opens its technology Vista 2005: Computing for Tomorrow, the first in a series of annual symposia.
The event aims to attract researchers from around the world and give them a platform for presenting their efforts.
Speakers on the symposium, Mr. Rick Rashid, Senior Vice-President of Microsoft Research, M. Butler Lampson, a scientist-in-chief and Mr. Daniel T. Ling, Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft Research and roundtables on "The search for training and research in India" and "technologies for emerging markets."
Beginning as a catalyst for research activities across the country, MSRI has several projects in
On 19 November 20, all roads lead to appeared that the fire analysis, only a market research annual fair organized by students at the TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI). The fair organized by TAPMI, one of the Top 15 B-schools in the country, Manipal, has been a great success with the public.
Since the inception of the fire analysis during the year 1993, each year, 13 shows have been attracting 128 market research projects in various sectors. The research carried out in a systematic process of dismantling three, ie analysis pre-fire, a fire analysis exhibitions and post-fire. Pre-fire is the analysis
A National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate edged out a fellow schoolmate and a Wharton undergraduate to snag top honours at the MAS-ESS essay writing competition.
Melvin Koh beat Leong Chee Kian (NUS) and See Kok Heng (Wharton) for the $5,000 cash prize.
The 24-year-old Economics major has won the prize for the second year running.
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(March 14, 2006) - Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship hosted the sixth installation of the business plan competition Rice (RBPC), the world's largest in the world. The 2006 competition is one of the best business meetings in Houston. RBPC recently announced, semi-finalists, who are competing for more than $ 260000 and prices.
The three-day business plan competition, the starting signal for March 30, 2006, organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at
Mumbai, September 06: The flagship event ‘Udghosh’, specially designed for future corporate climbers, kicked off Manthan 2007—the much awaited annual business seminar of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)—on Thursday. The three-day event, from September 6-8, has been organised in association with The Indian Express.
Sponsored by Nestle, the idea behind Udghosh was to test students on a multitude of managerial and interpersonal skills.
Significantly, like Udghosh, all events of Manthan boast of an impressive line up of corporate sponsors which includes Google India for Jigyasa (business quiz), RPG Enterprises for Kshitij (paper presentation contest), Mahindra & Mahindra for Anveshan (assessment centre)
Competition showcases SCSU, Claflin MBA students
Master of Business Administration candidates from Claflin and South Carolina State universities competed in the sixth annual Opportunity Funding Corporation Venture Challenge in April.
Students and faculty advisers from historically black colleges and universities across the nation met at the Omni Hotel-CNN Center to vie for $37,000 in scholarship awards.
The competitions ultimate goal was to better prepare young African-American men and women to become entrepreneurs.
Black-owned businesses grew by 45 percent between 1997 and 2002, according to U.S. Census data. But one-third close within two years, and fewer than half survive at least four years.
The student competition
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