Best Senior Thesis Award

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The Department of Computer Science and Engineering presents the Best Senior Thesis Award annually. The purpose of the award is to recognize the honors student(s) who writes the most outstanding senior thesis in a given year.

Process

Nomination Letter. The faculty member sponsoring the research project provides a nomination letter describing the student's research contribution. The nomination letter should address the criteria listed below.
Submission Deadline. The nomination letter and senior thesis must be submitted to the undergraduate advisors on or before the last day of instruction in Spring quarter. Submissions after the deadline will not be considered.
Selection Committee. The selection of the best senior thesis will be done by a committee of two faculty members and one undergraduate advisor according to the criteria below.
Announcement of the Award. The announcement of the Best Senior Thesis Award will be at the departmental graduation ceremony on graduation day.

Criteria

The selection of the best senior thesis is based on the originality, impact, and written quality of the work. Work that has been submitted to and/or accepted at workshops, conferences, or journals will be considered more favorably. Work that is primarily attributed to the student's own initiative will be considered more favorably. Finally, the quality of the written document in terms of its organization, polish, and use of language will be considered.

Past Winners

2008: Sam Whittle for "Maintaining Intelligibility of ASL Video in the Presence of Data Loss", supervised by Richard Ladner.
2007: Kyle Littlefield for "Context-Based Arithmetic Coding for the DCT: Achieving high compression rates with block transforms and simple context modeling", supervised by Richard Ladner.
2006: Jenny Yuen for "Feature-Based Classification of the Mouse Eye Images", supervised by Linda Shapiro.
2005: Matthew Renzelmann for "Text Segmentation and Grouping for Tactile Graphics", supervised by Richard Ladner.

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