This award is presented annually by the School of Computer Science. Allen Newell had a long and rich scientific career that contributed to multiple subdisciplines in computer science. Still, each individual endeavor was pursued with a characteristic style that his colleagues, students, and friends recognized as essential to Allen. Because of the breadth of scope of Allen's contributions, this award recognizes undergraduate research in his scientific style rather than computer science research in a particular area. The criteria by which a research project is judged is predicated, foremost, on the belief that a good idea is not enough.
Hui Han Chin 2012
Applications of Spectral Algorithms
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Alan G. Pierce 2011
Decision Problems on Iterated Length-Preserving Transducers
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Bradford M. Neuman 2010
Learning-based Change Detection for Mobile Robots
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Jeremiah M. Blocki 2009
Direct Zero-Knowledge Proofs
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Henry D. DeYoung 2008
An Authorization Logic with Explicit Time
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Alexander Grubb 2007
Autonomous Discovery of Landmark Objects
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Kanat Tangwongsan2006
Active Data Structures and Applications to Dynamic and Kinetic Algorithms
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Jared Go 2005
Real-time Texture-Space Radiosity
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Warren A. Hunt 2004
A Fast Counting Data Compressing Algorithm
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Samir Sapra 2003
Logic Minimzation using SAT Checkers
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John White Heffner2002
High Bandwidth TCP Queuing
Daniel Maynes-Aminzade 2001
Techniques for Interactive Audience Participation
Mark Ronald Plesko 2000
Towards Verification of a Proof-Carrying Code Architecture in a Linear Logical Framework
Patrick Francis Riley 1999
Multi-Agent Environment
Kevin William Hamlen 1998
Proof-Carrying Code for x86 Architectures
Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit 1997
Network-Award Distributed Computing
Kevin Rathbun Walker 1996
User-Level TCP in a Flow Controlled ATM LAN
Daniel R. Richards 1995
Image Analysis for Automated Genotyping
C. Lawrence Zitnick 1995
Projective Stereo Vision
Sean J. Hallgren 1994
Linear Congruential Generators Over Elliptic Curves
Karl F. Crary 1993
Typing of a Practical Programming Language with Higher Kinds and Higher-Order Modules
Erik W. Selberg 1993
Stopping a Cheater: Secret Sharing with Dishonest Participation