jfp@gatech.edu (John Passafiume) (08/01/87)
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The following information was provided to departments of computer
science with respect to the forthcoming poster competition
which will be conducted during the 1988 ACM Sixteenth Annual
Computer Science Conference. We are posting it here in the event
you were inadvertently overlooked as well as to provide
additional clarifying information concerning eligibility.
ANNOUNCING
THE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH POSTER CONTEST
Atlanta, May 8, 1987
Dear Chairperson:
CSC '88 is sponsoring an undergraduate research poster com-
petition. The aim is to give undergraduates and their
departments the opportunity to exhibit their thesis or pro-
ject work at a national conference. We believe that such an
exhibit will be of great interest to the Conference audi-
ence. Posters will be judged for content and presentation.
Prizes and recognition will be given to winners of competi-
tions in various categories. The Digital Equipment Corpora-
tion has committed to offer a grand prize to the best poster
of the Conference and we anticipate that it will be well
worth striving for. Student's prizes and recognition to
their home departments will be awarded at the Conference's
Awards Luncheon. The rules for participating are as follows:
NOMINATIONS. In order to insure high quality of posters,
department chairpersons will screen all entries and nominate
at most the three best student projects to compete at the
Conference and represent the Department. Each project is
limited to one poster.
INTENTION TO PARTICIPATE & ENTRY FORM. The intention to par-
ticipate should be returned by September 30, 1987. One entry
form must be completed for each nomination and one or before
December 11, 1987 returned to:
John F. Passafiume, Chairman
Undergraduate Research Poster Competition
School of Information and Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
POSTER SIZE AND FORMAT. All posters must be on white 4-ply
posterboard 44 inches high and 28 inches wide. They should
bear the student's name, department and institutional iden-
tification in 24 point letters in the lower right hand
corner of the poster. Posters not meeting these requirements
will be disqualified and not displayed.
HANGING POSTERS AND JUDGING. Contestants are responsible for
hanging their posters on the cork bulletin boards provided
not later than 4:45 pm on February 23, 1988. The space allo-
cated to each contestant will be marked by a copy of the en-
try form. The student is expected to be present and avail-
able when his/her poster is judged on Wednesday, February
24, starting at 5:30 pm.
POSTER CATEGORIES. The posters will be entered in an ap-
propriate category such as: Artificial Intelligence, Operat-
ing Systems, Computer Graphics, Programming Languages and
Environments, Computer Architecture, Applications, and oth-
ers. The Poster Contest Committee reserves the right to ei-
ther pool categories together if there is insufficient com-
petition or make sub-categories if categories get too large.
The following additional clarifying information is provided:
ELIGIBILITY. In order to be eligible for the competition, a
student must either be currently enrolled as an undergraduate
student or have graduated not earlier than Spring 1987. With
respect to the latter case, you must certify that the project
submitted for the competition was completed while the student
was an undergraduate.
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