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CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Awards Program CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Awards program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. >> 2008 information and nomination form Nominees must attend a university or college located in North America, and must be nominated by two faculty members and recommended by the chair of their home department. No more than two male and two female candidates can be recommended by the same department chair in the same year.  The award committee looks for demonstrated excellence of computing research ability. The type of department in which the student is majoring and the area of computing in which the student has demonstrated ability are immaterial. What is important is the quality of the research work done by the student. The award committee also considers the student’s academic record and service to the community. Preference is given to students in their senior year (or the equivalent).   A cash prize of $1,000 will be awarded to each of two undergraduate students, one female and one male. A small number of other outstanding candidates will be recognized as Runners-Up and Finalists. All nominees whose work is considered to be exemplary are recognized with Honorable Mentions.   The awards are presented at one of the major computing research conferences sponsored by CRA, ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, SIAM, AAAI, or USENIX. The two first-prize winners will receive financial assistance from CRA toward their travel to the conference. CRA encourages home departments to provide similar assistance to the Runners-Up and Finalists.   CRA gratefully acknowledges the support of Microsoft Research and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) who sponsor the Outstanding Undergraduate Awards Program in alternate years. Microsoft Research is this year's sponsor.   Questions and inquiries about the Outstanding Undergraduate Awards should be directed to awards@cra.org. Past Winners: 2008 Winners 2007 Winners 2006 Winners 2005 Winners 2004 Winners 2003 Winners 2002 Winners 2001 Winners 2000 Winners 1999 Winners 1998 Winners 1997 Winners 1996 Winners 1995 Winners Sponsors: 2007 - Microsoft Research 2006 - Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs 2005 - Microsoft Research 2004 - Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs 2003 - Microsoft Research 2002 - Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs 2001 - Microsoft Research 2000 - Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs 1999 - Microsoft Research and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs 1998 - Microsoft Research 1997 - Microsoft Research 1996 - Hewlett-Packard, NEC Research Institute, and Xerox 1995 - Microsoft Research Search WWW Search cra.org Copyright © 2007 Computing Research Association. All Rights Reserved. Questions? E-mail: webmaster@cra.org.