ACM Student Research Competition (abbreviated as ACM SRC or SRC) is an annual multi-tiered research presentation competition conducted by
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and
Microsoft
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. The competition spans more than 20 major ACM conferences, hosting special poster sessions to showcase research at the undergraduate and graduate level. Selected semi-finalists add a slide presentation and compete for prizes in both undergraduate and graduate categories based on their knowledge, contribution, and quality of presentation. Those taking first place at the second-level competitions are invited to compete in the annual Grand Finals. Three top students in each category are selected as winners each year, representing approximately the top 1-2% of competing students.
First-round conferences include
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH),
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE),
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
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, ACM SIGPLAN Conference on
Programming Language Design and Implementation
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, and many others.
2016-2017 Grand Finals Winners
2016-2017 Graduate Student Winners:
# Kazem Cheshmi,
Rutgers University
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, International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) 2017.
# Omid Abari,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking 2016
# Calvin Loncaric,
University of Washington
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, ACM SIGSOFT FSE 2016
2016-2017 Undergraduate Student Winners:
# Victor Lanvin,
École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
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# Jennifer Vaccaro,
Olin College of Engineering
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# Martin Kellogg,
University of Washington
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Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...
2015-2016 Grand Finals Winners
2015-2016 Graduate Student Winners:
# Swarnendu Biswas,
Ohio State University
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# Thomas Degueule,
French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), ACM Modularity 2015 Conference
# Christopher Theisen,
North Carolina State University, ACM ESEC/FSE 2015 Conference
2015-2016 Undergraduate Student Winners:
# Jeevana Priya Inala,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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See also
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...
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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. It is the world's largest gathering of women in computing. The celebra ...
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List of computer science conferences
This is a list of academic conferences in computer science. Only conferences with separate articles are included; within each field, the conferences are listed alphabetically by their short names.
General
* FCRC – Federated Computing Research ...
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Research
Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...
References
External links
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