In May we announced that Xu Liu from the University of Maryland was one of the three winners in this year’s ACM / Microsoft Student Research Competition (SRC) for his paper on “Mobile Currency Reader for People with Visual Impairments”.

At the ACM Awards banquet this past Saturday, it was announced that he won First Place in the graduate student division. Congratulations Xu!

This is the second time in the past few years that a student from the ASSETS Conference SRC has won 1st place. This reflects very well on the quality of entries we get at the conference. We look forward to seeing more outstanding entries at ASSETS’09 in October.

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

Labels: Student Research Competition, Winner, Xu Liu

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.

Labels: ASSETS, Awards, Student Research Competition, Winner, Xu Liu