CSIDC 2005

An international panel of experts has selected the winners of CSIDC 2005, the IEEE Computer Society's 6th Annual International Design Competition.

The teams were selected from a group of over 200 teams from 109 universities in 50 countries that participated in CSIDC 2005.

The top twenty-five projects were selected based ont heir reports by eighteen Submission Evaluation Teams.  The Judging Panel met 20-21 May and selected the top ten projects from that list of twenty-five.

The top ten teams were invited to present their projects in Washington, DC 27-29 June 2005.  Copies of each team's PowerPoint presentation and Project Report can be found at the links below.

The winners of CSIDC 2005 are:

First Place

North Carolina State University (USA)

• NEAT: Networks for Endangered Animal Tracking (Presentation) (Project Report)

Second Place

Poznan University of Technology (Poland)

• Read-IT (Presentation) (Project Report)

Third Place

Politehnica University of Bucharest (Romania)

• NOMAD Positioning System (Presentation) (Project Report)

Honorable Mention

American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)

• ABBAS:  Automobile Black Box for Accident Simulation (Presentation) (Project Report)

Beijing University of Technology (China)

• Sporting Personal Assistant (Presentation) (Project Report)

Iowa State University (USA)

• Lost in the Information World (Presentation) (Project Report)

Shanghai JiaTong University (China)

• Currahee Netmeeting System (Presentation) (Project Report)

Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (Pakistan)

• Boltay Haath - Pakistan Sign Language Recognition (Presentation) (Project Report)

SSN College of Engineering & Panimalar Engineering College (India)

• Vision:  Empowering the Visually Challenged (Presentation) (Project Report)

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia)

• Intelligent System to Predict Inundations (Presentation) (Project Report)

Microsoft Multimedia Award

Shanghai JiaoTong University (China)

Microsoft Award for Software Engineering

American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)