September 4, 2009 Recipients
Stanford University, Monica Lam, Department of Computer Science
Applications for decentralized social networking infrastructure
Carnegie Mellon University, Tudor Dumitras, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Imago, an approach for removing leading causes of software upgrade failures via upgrades-as-a-service
University of Wales Bangor, Anna Croft, School of Chemistry
Understanding cell wall components of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
University of Heidelberg, Sergey Koposov, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Analyzing stellarstreams on AWS to complete Milky Way picture
Duke University, Landon Cox, Computer Science Department
Vis-a-Vis, a service enabling personal virtual machines for managing personal information online
University of Washington, Christopher Murray, Global Burden Disease Study
Systematic assessment of the data on all diseases and injuries, and produce comprehensive and comparable estimates of the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors for two time periods
MIT, Samuel Madden, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Load aware scaling for distributed databases
National University of Singapore, Jiang Dawei, Computer Science
MapReduceDB: A unified data processing system
University of Virginia, Jason Lawrence, Department of Computer Science
Image super-resolution using trillions of examples
Tulsa Community College, Thomas Mancino, Wavebreak.org
Developing cloud-based education tool with cloud curriculum
University of California San Francisco, David Quigley, Diller Comprehensive Family Cancer Center
Analysis to identify genes that function in normal lung biology as well as in lung tumor pathology
University of Stuttgart, Ralph Mietzner, Institute of Architecture and Application Systems
Automated deployment and management of composite applications distributed across cloud computing environments.
SUNY Stony Brook, Steven Skiena, Department of Computer Science
Lydia/TextMap news analysis project at Stony Brook University combines natural language processing (NLP), distributed processing and statistical analysis to reduce news steams to time series on the frequency and sentiment of each person, place, or thing.
Stanford University, Jacob Leverich, Department of Computer Science
Energy efficiency of clusters and data centers that make extensive use of MapReduce
University of California Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Greg Aldering, The Nearby Supernova Factory
Understanding the origin of supernovae, how they explode, and how to better calibrate them as distance indicators
SUNY Binghamton, Kenneth Chiu, with U. Wisconsin-Madison, U. Western Australia, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
Ecosystem modeling analysis from grids to cloud services and AWS.
June 5th, 2009 Recipients
University of Waterloo, Mark D. Smucker, Department of Management Sciences
Utilizing Interaction to Improve Information Retrieval
MIT, Chris Hill, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Mathematical models for analyzing complex Earth ocean systems
UC San Diego, Sriram Krishnan, CloudStor Group, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego
High-resolution topographic data sets and alternative provisioning strategies
Harvard University, David Cox, Rowland Institute, Visual Neurosciences Group
Algorithms for electrophysiological detection of epileptic seizures
Cambridge, Jurgen Van Gael, Computational and Biological Learning Lab
Part-of-Speech tagging for natural language processing tasks utilizing Wikipedia data set
California Institute of Technology, Andrew Benson, Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity
(TAPIR)
Exploring models for contents of galaxy formations
University of Bristol, Ruth Crick, Department of Education
Effective Lifelong learning linking indigenous communities with a global learning network
MIT, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, MIT Media Lab
Scaling Scratch, a new visual programming environment for children that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art—and share them on the web
King’s College London, Dr. Caroline Johnston, Molecular Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry
with collaboration: University of Essex, University of Leeds, University of Warwick, Royal Holloway University of London
Machine learning techniques to identify gene networks
University of Karlsruhe, Thomas Jejkal, Computational Methods/CS
3D ultrasound computer tomography (USCT) for early breast cancer diagnosis
Columbia University, Tim Wu, Law School
AltLaw provides the first free, full-text searchable database of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports
Harvard University, Todd Zickler, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
New tools that can automatically parse images and recognize people, objects, and scenes to enable effective browsing, searching, and organization of billions of images and videos.
University of Vermont, Peter Dodds, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
The emotional content of large-scale texts: The happiness of bloggers, song lyrics, and presidents
University of Melbourne, Alexandre di Costanzo, Distributed Systems Laboratory
Resource management strategies for High-Performance Computing
Purdue, Saptarshi Guha, Department of Statistics
Install scripts and cost performance analysis for RHIPE and Hadoop via EC2
Iowa State, Julie Dickerson, Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals
Perform metabolic modeling on E. coli networks to optimize the production of various types of fatty acids
MIT, James DiCarlo, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Accelerating the development of computational theories of how visual cortex accomplishes object recognition
Penn State, C. Lee Giles, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Using AWS for CiteSeerX project. CiteSeerX is a service providing documents and metadata to computer scientists worldwide
University of Florida, Renato J. Figueiredo, ACIS Lab / Electrical and Computer Engineering
Evaluation of social VPN performance at scale
