Xu Liu, from the University of Maryland, is a winner of this year’s ACM / Microsoft Student Research Competition (SRC) for his paper on “Mobile Currency Reader for People with Visual Impairments”.

This student competition takes place at many ACM conferences, including ASSETS. As one of the three winners at ASSETS, he was able to enter his work into the Grand Finals. The Grand Finals have entries from all participating ACM conferences in both graduate and undergraduate categories. In each category, there are three winners. We are extremely pleased that Xu’s work was honoured with a win in the graduate category. As a Grand Finalist, he is invited to attend the ACM Awards Banquet in San Diego next month — a ceremony that will honour many people in computing, including this year’s Turing Award recipient.

For more information about the SRC, see http://www.acm.org/src/.

ASSETS ’09 will again feature an SRC event. This is a great way to get visibility for student work! For information about how students can enter the SRC at the upcoming ASSETS conference, see http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09/information/student-research-competition.php.

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With great sadness, we announce that our colleague Noëlle Carbonell suddenly passed away on Saturday, April 11, 2009. She will be remembered as an enthusiastic scientist in our research community. Noëlle Carbonell was professor in computer science at Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1 and was the scientific leader of the Merlin research team at LORIA and at the INRIA Nancy - Grand Est center. Her research area was human-machine interaction where she worked on ergonomy, multimodal interaction and user-centered issues. Author of numerous publications in the field, Noëlle was a member of several editorial boards. Since 2006, she was secretary/treasurer of SIGACCESS, the Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing of the ACM.

Taken from the Memorial Page for Noëlle Carbonell, which is available at:
http://www.loria.fr/noelle-carbonell-temoignages-et-messages

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