As part of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest high school celebration of science, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence recognized 13 high school students for their outstanding projects with an artificial intelligence component. Each winner received a $500 cash award (joint authors shared the cash award), a one-year membership in AAAI, and a one-year subscription to AAAI’s AI Magazine for the student’s high school. “AAAI members were quite impressed by these students’ projects,” says AAAI Executive Director Carol Hamilton. “We hope these promising young scientists will continue pursuing their interests in AI.”
Winners include:
- Nice Guys Dominate: A Computer Simulation Studying the Effect of Dominant-Recessive Genetics on a Population
Michael Jason Diedrich, 16, Century High School, Rochester, Minnesota - Applying Genetic Algorithms to Dynamic Traitor Tracing
Adam Charles Vogel, 18, Saint Charles West High School, St Charles, Missouri - Data Mining Network Traffic with Neural Networks
Dmitry Kashlev, 19, The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York - TensorFaces: A Multilinear Model for Computerized Face Recognition and Image Processing
Tonislav Ivanov Ivanov, 19, Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York - Modeling the Ecological Success of Decision Rules Using Variants of the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma
Katherine Harvard, 17, Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, New York - Implementation of Bayesian Statistical Spam-filtering Algorithm
Jerry Ji Guo, 15, Riverside High School, Greer, South Carolina - Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly Disabled
Elena Leah Glassman, 16, Central Bucks High School West, Doylestown, Pennsylvania - Training Neural Networks with Genetic Alogrithms
Nhan Duy Nguyen, 15, Southside High School, Greenville, South Carolina - The Telltale Heart of Darkness—Differentiating Between Authors: Beyond Naive Bayesian Classification
Brian Andrew Camley, 17, William J. Palmer High School, Colorado Springs, Colorado - Factors Affecting Cooperative Robotic Behavior
Donald Eng, 15, Stanton College Preparatory School, Jacksonville, Florida - Robots to the Rescue: The Effect of Sensor Type on the Detection of Life Signs
Brian Edward Pinkham, 17, Stone Bridge High School, Ashburn, Virginia - The Fish Robot
Fransisco Selles de Almeida Junior, 20, ETEL—Escola Tecnica de Eletronica, Ipaussu, Sao Paulo, Brasil Nei Alcantara Junior, 17, ETEL—Escola Tecnica de Eletronica, Ipaussu, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Fair Description
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) (http://www.sciserv.org/isef/) is held annually, bringing together over 1,200 students from 40 nations to compete for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and the grand prize: a $50,000 scholarship and a high performance computer. Science Service founded the ISEF in 1950 and is very proud to have Intel as the title sponsor of this prestigious, international competition.
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