Madrona Prize
In recent years, our friends at Madrona Venture Group have offered a prize in connection with the Affiliates poster/demo session to recognize projects that combined exciting research with commercial potential. Here is a complete list of all winners, in reverse chronological order:
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2012
- Winner:
SpiroSmart: Using a Microphone to Measure Lung Function on a Mobile Phone / Eric C. Larson, Mayank Goel - Runner-Up:
FreeDOM: a New Baseline for the Web / Raymond Cheng, Will Scott - Runner-Up:
Wireless Power for Left Ventricular Assist Device / Ben Waters, Scott Wisdom, Brody Mahoney, Chen Shi
2011
- Winner:
Humantenna: Sensing Whole-Body Gestures Using the Human Body as an Antenna / Gabe Cohn - Runner-Up:
ShareMeNot: Protecting users from third-party social media buttons / Franzi Roesner - Runner-Up:
Playing Games with Robots: Autonomous Small-Scale Manipulation / Cynthia Matuszek
2010
- Winner:
Prefab: Modifying Any Graphical User Interface / Morgan Dixon & Daniel Leventhal - Runner-Up:
SNUPI: Sensor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure / Gabe Cohn - Runner-Up:
Comet: An active distributed key-value store / Amit Levy & Roxana Geambasu - Runner-Up:
Scalable Distributed Network Management / Colin Dixon & Dane Brandon
2009
- Winner:
HydroSense / Jon Froehlich, Sidhant Gupta, Eric Larson, Gabe Cohen & Tim Campbell - Runner-Up:
Reverse Traceroute / Ethan Katz-Bassett - Runner-Up:
Deterministic Multiprocessing / Joseph Devietti & Brandon Lucia - Runner-Up:
Vanish: Increasing Privacy with Self-Destructing Data / Roxana Geambasu & Amit Levy
2008
- Winner:
One Swarm / Michael Piatek & Tomas Isdal - Runner-Up:
Developing a Wayfinding Application for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments / Alan Lui & Harlan Hile - Runner-Up:
Fold-It / Seth Cooper - Runner-Up:
Semi-private Internet via Shared Knowledge Questions / Michael Toomin
2007
- Winner:
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene Graduate student participants / Pravin Bhat & Noah Snavely - Runner-Up:
A Case for OneSwarm / Michael Piatek & Tomas Isdal - Runner-Up:
On Best-Response Bidding in Ad Auctions Graduate Student Participant / Yionnis Giotis - Runner-Up:
The Organization and Sharing of Web-Service Objects with Menagerie / Roxana Geambasu, Cherie Chung, & Alex Moshchuk
2006
- Winner:
Summarizing Personal Web Browsing Sessions / Mira Dontcheva - Runner-Up:
Interactive Cutaway Illustrations of Complex Models / Wil Li - Runner-Up:
SpyProxy: On-the-fly Protection from Malicious Web Content / Alex Moshchuk & Tanya Bragin
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