Hank Levy with Madrona Prize recipients and Madrona’s Tim Porter
The Madrona Prize (for the research project presented at the UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting that was deemed to have the greatest potential for commercialization) went to Ambient Back Scatter: Battery Free Communication; Aaron Parks, Vincent Liu, and Vamsi Talla.
Runners-up were:
- Personalized SLAs in the Cloud; Jennifer Ortiz and Victor Texeira de Almeida
- iHome 3D: Capturing Indoor Scenes with Smartphone; Aditya Senkar
- WiSee: Whole Home Gesture Recognition Using WiFi; Ruth Ravichandran, Sidhant Gupta, and Qi Fan Pu
Ed Lazowska with People’s Choice Award recipient Vikash Kumar
The People’s Choice Award – chosen by balloting among attendees at the Open House poster session – went to Complex behavior synthesis using minimum instructions; Vikash Kumar.