ACM Student Research Competition at ICSE 2010

ACM Student Research Competition at ICSE 2010. Students can get travel stipends and win prizes! Submit papers by January 7, 2010. http://www.sbs.co.za/ICSE2010/SRC_2010.html ICSE will be hosting an ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research. This competition is at an internationally recognized venue that offers students a unique forum to experience the research world, present their research results to ICSE attendees, and compete for prizes. Participate in this exciting competition and submit your work to the ICSE Student Research Competition! BEFORE THE CONFERENCE In the first round, students submit a 2-page research abstract that follows the ICSE 2010 Format and Submission Guidelines. The submission should describe: * The research problem and motivation * Background and related work * Approach and uniqueness * Results and contributions Papers must be submitted electronically through CyberChairPro (see the submission deadline below). A panel of experts will review the submissions and select the students to participate in the final two rounds of the Student Research Competition at ICSE 2010 in South Africa. Accepted submissions will be published in the ICSE proceedings Volume II. Students who are selected to participate in the final two rounds are entitled to a *stipend for their travel expenses, up to a maximum of US$500.* AT THE CONFERENCE The competition consists of two rounds during the conference: 1. Poster Presentation. Judges evaluate the research (quality, novelty and significance) and the presentation of the research (poster, discussion) during a poster session. Based on the results from the poster session, judges will select students to advance to the second round of the competition. 2. Short Conference Talk. Students give a short presentation of their research followed by a question and answer session. The presentation is evaluated by a panel of judges who select the winners. PRIZES The top three winners will be recognized during the conference and will receive *prizes of US$500, US$300, and US$200,* respectively. The winners of the ICSE SRC are also invited to compete with winners from other ACM conferences in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. In addition, the judges can award special prizes: * Best project representing an innovative use of Microsoft technology (US$200). Visit the Microsoft Research in Software Engineering Group to download available research tools (Boogie, CCI, CHESS, Code Contracts, Pex, Stubs) from Microsoft Research. Students can get selected Microsoft products (Visual Studio, SQL Server) for free at Microsoft DreamSpark. * Best poster presentation by a student at a host country university (US$200). REQUIREMENTS Participants must be undergraduates or graduate students pursuing an academic degree at the time of initial submission. Participants must provide a signed letter from their academic supervisor confirming that they are registered as a full-time student. Additionally, participants must be current members of the ACM, and must provide their ACM member number. Supervisors of the work may not be listed as co-authors; you must submit a single-authored version of your work for the competition. FOR MORE INFORMATION Student Research Competition on the ICSE web-page http://www.sbs.co.za/ICSE2010/ (Co-located, ACM-SRC) For additional information, visit the official ACM Student Research Competition web-site. http://www.acm.org/src/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: 7 January 2010 Notification: 11 February 2010 Camera Ready Copy: 3 March 2010 STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION COMMITTEE Shing-Chi Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ayse Bener, Bogazici University, Turkey Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt Emerson Murphy-Hill, University of British Columbia, Canada Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA Thomas Zimmermann (coordinator), Microsoft Research, USA