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AAAI Honors High School Students for their AI research at 2008 INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair

Menlo Park, California — Now in its tenth year, the AAAI Special Awards program at the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (http://sciserv.org/isef/) recognizes outstanding achievement in the areas of intelligent computation and robotics. Finalists in other areas with significant computer science components are also eligible. The winners receive cash awards, and their schools also receive a complimentary one-year membership in the AAAI, including a subscription to AI Magazine. This year, the ISEF was held May 11-16, 2008, in Atlanta, Georgia. AAAI is proud to recognize this year’s best projects in the area of Computer Science with an artificial intelligence component, including:

First Award of $1,000

  • Application of Real-Time Neural Networks for Use with Data Gloves
    Colby Anne Wilkason, 17, Warner Robins High School, Warner Robins, Georgia
  • So Many Data—So Few Labels: The Effects of Autoencoders on Unlabeled Data for Pattern Recognition
    Thomas Ben Thompson, 17, Huron High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Second Award $500

  • Modeling Evolution: Exploring Computational Biology and Biomodeling
    Dmitry O. Kislyuk, 17, California High School, San Ramon, California
  • Distributed Intelligence
    Dorian Naim Rahamim, 17, Orange High School, Pepper Pike, Ohio
  • Content-Based Image Retrieval
    David C. Liu, 16, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, California
  • Computer ANTimation
    Tobias Jacob Williams, 14, Highland Secondary School, Dundas, Ontario, Canada
  • The Design and Implementation of Practical Algorithms for Automatic Composite Photographs
    Ken Miura, 17, Shizuoka-Prefectural Hamamatsu-Kita High School, Sizuoka, Japan, Mami Inoue, 17, Shizuoka-Prefectural Hamamatsu Kita High-School, Shizuoka, Japan, Mayu Suzuki, 17, Shizuoka-Prefectural Hamamatsu Kita High-School, Shizuoka, Japan
  • Intelligent Task Coordination with Multiple Robots
    Canin Quinn Christell, 18, Christell Home School, Springfield, Missouri

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