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Announcing the winners of the Rhea awards for the year 2010
This may not be obvious from looking at the website, but Rhea is actually developed and maintained by students. Furthermore, most of these students are volunteers. However, this year, thanks to a grant from the Motorola Foundation, Project Rhea has been able to instigate three awards to highlight the outstanding contributions of some of the students on the development team. So we are pleased to announce the recipients of the "Leadership Award", the "Design Award", and the "Communication Award". With your continued support, we hope that these awards will become a yearly tradition.
Rhea Leadership Award
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Rhea Leadership Award
The Leadership Award goes to Rui Zhao for his leading role in the development of the Rhea's collective table of formula. A graduate of Zhejiang University in China, Rui is now a PhD student in ECE at Purdue University. On his own initiative, Rui recruited and managed a team of student writers to grow the database of formulas. He also helped them learn the required basics for mediawiki posting and latex equation typing. As a result, the collective table of formula has grown tremendously. See for example the new humongous table of indefinite integrals, among other things. Good job Rui! The Leadership Award this year consists of a cash award in the amount of $500, funded by the Motorola Foundation. |
Rhea Design Award
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Rhea Design Award
The Design Award goes to Shiv Biddanda for the development and deployment of Assimi, Rhea's visual text search engine. Assimi uses a combination of the Sphinx search engine (an extension to MediaWiki) and the Prefuse library to enable visualization of search results. To build Assimi, Shiv adapted visualization software previously developed by Purdue Prof. Niklas Elmqvist, director of the PIVOT lab. Shiv also worked in collaboration with Sonia Belaid, a visiting student from France, to produce a video tutorial, which can be viewed on YOUTUBE. Shiv is currently finishing a master's degree in ECE at Purdue University.
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Rhea Communication Award
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Rhea Communication Award
The Communication Award goes to ECE graduate student Andrew Haddad, for the paper "Rhea: a student-driven tool for enhancing the educational experience", to appear in Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2010). Rhea presented the paper at the Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges-Midwest Conference, Franklin, Indiana, Sept. 24-25, 2010. A computer science graduate of Ball State University, Andrew is now a PhD student in ECE at Purdue University. You can learn more about Andrew on his website, at http://www.andrewwhaddad.com/.
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We thank the Motorola Foundation for supporting Project Rhea.
