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Informatics Jamboree 2006 Poster Competition

The Winners:

PhD
First Prize:  Tom Griffiths
Second Prize:  Horacio Gonzalez-Velez
Third Prize:  Moa Johansson

MSc Prize:  Vinay Modi

Panel of Judges:

Bjorn Franke
Andrew Fitzgibbon
Roland Ibbett
Mark Jerrum
Josh Tenenbaum

Research Students:

• Carlos Acosta-Leon:  Skeletal Programming for Reconfigurable Computing Systems: Using High Level Structured Parallel Programming to Design Image Applications on FPGAs at System Level
• Leena Al-Hussaini: Overlap Discovery among Heterogeneous Databases Schemata using Link-based Analysis
  
• James Clarke: Constraint-based Sentence Compression An Integer Programming Approach
• Heriberto Cuayahuitl:  Reduced Search Spaces for Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Dialogue Strategies
  
• Horacio Gonzalez-Velez: Dynamic Deal: Adaptive Task Farming for Computational Grids
• Tom Griffiths:  Human Activity Recognition Using Objects
• Gregor Hofer:  Stochastic Head Motion Generation for a Talking Head
  
• Moa Johansson: Proof Planning Critics: Turning failed proofs into solutions
• Mykel Kochenderfer: Modelling and Planning in Large State and Action Spaces
• Laura Korte:  Finite State Automata and the Turtle in Search of the Grail
• Scott Nowson: Whose Thumb is it Anyway? Classifying author personality from weblog text
• Nardine Osman: Dynamic Verification of Interactions in Distributed Open Systems
  
• Michael Smith:  Towards Stochastic Model Extraction: Performance Evaluation, Fresh from the Source
• Viktor Tron: From Priming to Historical Change: A case study of emergist explanation in language
  

MSc Students:

• Abishek Dutta:  Reconfigurable Self-Replicating Robotics
• Parnil Mhatre:  Optimum Noise in Ganglion Cells
  
• Vinay Modi: Integrating Algorithms for Obstacle Avoidance using Optic Flow and Visual Homing: An MSc Project Proposal
  

Institute Posters (on display, not included in judging):

• Institute for Computing Systems Architecture  Nigel Topham
  
• Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Toby Collins, Adrian Haith, Finaly Stewart