Update: Friday, May 12, 2006

The DMRL Team is Selected for the US Finals of the Imagine Cup 2006

A group of students from USC's Data Management Research Laboratory qualified for the US Finals of the Imagine Cup 2006 in the Software Design Challenge category. The Imagine Cup is sponsored by Microsoft. It "challenges students around the globe to explore their own creativity by using technology to solve what they consider to be challenging problems. Imagine Cup provides a theme but the competitors provide the genius behind innovative, dynamic, and powerful software applications" (from The Spoke).

The USC DMRL team is composed of Ph.D. candidates Min Qin, Beomjoo Seo, Leslie Liu and MS student Walter Baoxuan Xiao. All four of them are students at the Viterbi School of Engineering's Computer Science Department and the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC).

The DMRL team participated in the Imagine Cup 2006 US Finals held at Microsoft's Headquarters in Redmond, Washington, during May 4-6. Only fifteen teams qualified for the final round of the US competition. They previously passed both the first and second round selection process. Among the tasks of the quartet was to write a detailed Design Specification under the guidance of a Microsoft mentor. The teams exhibited and demonstrated their initial solutions to an audience of press, academics, and Microsoft employees. Min, Beomjoo, Leslie and Walter have been focusing their research on multimedia streaming, which is also at the heart of their project. The core technology was developed under the guidance of their advisor, Roger Zimmermann, one of IMSC's key investigators.

The three top US finalists from the US Finals round went on to represent the US at the Worldwide Finals in Delhi. Worldwide over 65,000 teams entered the Imagine Cup 2006 competition and we are very proud of the achievement of the DMRL team!

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