John G. Kemeny Computing Prize
The John Kemeny Computing Prize is awarded annually for innovative
computing projects by Dartmouth undergraduates. In addition to public
recognition of excellence in computing, it also carries a cash award
of up to $500.
The 1997 Kemeny Prize Committee
- John M. Danskin
- Jay Aslam
- Neal Young
1997 Winners
The Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science is pleased to
announce the 1997 winners of the Kemeny Prize for Excellence in
Undergraduate Computing. We commend the award winners on their
enthusiasm for computing and their innovative uses of computational
resources.
- First Prize Innovative Software Category: Peter Cobb
- Peter's 3D modeling program, CobbStrux uses the metaphor of
Construx, a childhood toy to allow the easy and intuitive creation of
a large category of three dimensional objects.
- Second Prize Innovative Software Category: Simon Holmes a Court
- Simon wrote Kohonen's world, an entertaining and informative
piece of courseware designed to give insight into the workings of
Kohonen's neural networks.
- First Prize Computer Science Category: Kevin Coopman
- Kevin derived and implemented a radix 4 fast Fourier transform
algorithm. This technique saved about 20\% of the computation normally
required for the FFT. The FFT is a critical inner loop in many image
processing applications.
- Honorable Mention: Cenk Ergan
- Cenk created a powerful world wide web interface for humanities
databases: Foreign Language
Software Database, ARIT
Library Database, and Humanities Bookmarks
Database.
- Honorable Mention: Nikolay St. Stoyanov
- Nikolay wrote a program for computing with Huckel Molecular Orbital Theory. This program is being used to help teach graduate classes in the chemistry department.
- Honorable Mention: Ronald J. Kimball
- Ronald wrote a neural net simulator called c4net. C4net can be
used to train arbitrarily large back-propagation neural networks.
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