ACM ISEF Awards Committee
Purpose
The ISEF Awards Committee is a subcommittee of the ACM Awards Committee.
The task of the ISEF group is attend
the International Science and Engineering Fair, held each year in the
spring. At the ISEF, secondary school students from around the world
demonstrate their research projects. Winners are chosen in various
fields of science and engineering.
ACM sponsors awards for ISEF participants whose projects involve
computing and the computing sciences. Each year, 30 to 40 students
are eligible for these awards from ACM. The ISEF Awards Committee
judges the exhibitions and determines the recipients of the ACM
awards.
The 1994 ISEF was held May 8-14 in Birmingham, AL. The 1995 ISEF will
be held in Hamilton, Ontario in May.
Members
Members of the ISEF Committee are appointed for a three-year term. Appointments are made
by the chair of the ACM Awards Committee based on the recommendation of
the ISEF Committee Chair. Each appointee serves as ISEF Committee Chair during
the final year of his or her term.
- Chair 1993-1994
- Gene Spafford, Purdue University
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1994 Winners. Pictured, left to right:
- ACM ISEF chair
- Professor Gene Spafford
- First prize winner
- John-Paul Robert Fryckman, 15, Lutheran High School of Hawaii, Honolulu for his project Neural Network Track Fitter for the Dumand II Array
- Honorable mention
- Robert E. Mittendorff II, 17, Langley High School, McLean, VA, for his project Digital Sonification Techniques: Virtual Acoustic Environment
- Honorable mention
- Grace Kyungeun Lyo, 17, Sandia High School, Albuquerque, NM, for her project Playing God: Computer Models of Plant Growth and Evolution
- Chair 1994-1995
- Laurie B. Hodges, Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Chair 1995-1996
- Brent Auernheimer, Cal State Fresno
Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>
1994 Winners. Pictured, left to right: