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Intel Honors 9 Faculty and 25 Doctoral Students with Awards at Intel’s European Research and Innovation Conference (ERIC)

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 04:33 PM PDT

October 25, 2012, Barcelona, Spain

On October 23rd the University Program Office at Intel honored 9 faculty and 25 doctoral students from European Union (EU) universities through two new innovative programs – the Early Career Faculty Honor Program (ECFHP) and the Doctoral Student Honor Programme (DSHP). Both of these programs award cash gifts intended to help support research and education as well as to enable the awardees to travel to Intel to collaborate with Intel researchers.

The Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program targets faculty who are relatively new to academia with less than 4-years of experience. 16 of the top universities in the EU submitted 33 nominations based on innovative research in areas such as sustainability, smart cities, embedded applications and visual computing. These nominees then submitted an application form which was reviewed and rigorously evaluated by committees of Intel's top researchers. Out of these 33 nominations 9 were selected as being the best. They are as follows:

Intel Early Career Faculty Honorees pose with Intel Representatives, Kimberly Sills and John Somoza

Esteve Amat of the U. Polit. de Catalunya
Mélanie Bourocheof Trinity College Dublin
Chiara Buratti of the University of Bologna
Christophe Dubach of the University of Edinburgh
Andrew Keane of the University College Dublin
Bastian Leibe of RWTH Aachen
Jan Reineke of the University of Saarland
Thomas Schneider of TU Darmstadt
Vanessa Wood of ETH Zurich

The Intel Doctoral Student Honor Programme awards fellowships to exceptional PhD candidates pursuing leading-edge innovation in fields related to Intel's business and research interests. The goal of the program is to advance innovation in key areas of technology, as well as develop a pipeline of world-class technical talent for Intel's future workforce and the global knowledge-based economy. The selection of this year's recipients was a highly competitive process with many outstanding quality applicants across several universities and exciting areas of research. For the 2012-2013 academic cycle, 25 finalists were selected from a pool of 66 applicants across 16 universities. Congratulations to all of this year's awardees!

Intel Doctoral Student Programme Honorees pose with Intel Representatives, Kimberly Sills and John Somoza

Jose Maria Arnau of the U. Polit. De Catalunya
Jeronimo Castrillon of RWTH Aachen
Jose David Domenech Gomez of the U. Polit. De Valencia
Jesus Friginal Lopez of the U. Polit. De Valencia
Shrikanth Ganapathy of the U. Polit. De Catalunya
Carmen Garcia of the U. Polit. De Catalunya
Sven Gehring of Saarland University
Manuel Gorius of Saarland University
Alexander Heinecke of TU Munchen
Alec Jacobson of ETH Zurich
Gareth Jones of Imperial College London
Daniel Kelly of Imperial College London
Pejman Lotfi Kamran of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Pascal Meinerzhagen of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Bojan Milosevic of the University of Bologna
Bharghava Rajaram of the University of Edinburgh
Pablo Reble of RWTH Aachen
Michele Rossi of the University of Bologna
Lisa Ruttledge of the University College Dublin
Reinhard Schneider of TU Munchen
Lars Schor of ETH Zurich
Aonghus Shortt of the University College Dublin
Evgeny Strekalovskiy of TU Munchen
Alejandro Valero of the U. Polit. De Valencia
Cristian Zamfir of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Additional Authorship by: John Somoza

Contest aims to give open source projects a second wind

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Which Code for America app could help improve civic engagement in your location?

Adopta

LocalWiki

Shareabouts

Textizen

The Code for America Brigade recently launched Race for Reuse. It's a different kind of contest that aims to increase adoption of existing open source projects with real dollars. The goal isn't to build something brand new—it's to encourage volunteer teams (called "brigades") across the U.S. to stand up and support existing open source projects. Because one of the more difficult parts of deploying open source apps is building the user community around the projects and getting citizens engaged.

There are four apps that brigades are competing with: