During the final semester of their second year, I School Master's students undertake final projects. The school's interdisciplinary nature makes many kinds of projects suitable. Some students design and implement a prototype information system. Others engage in a significant research project leading to a written thesis.
The Master's Final Project Presentation and Competition is sponsored by the Dr. James R. Chen Award Fund. This fund is intended to recognize and foster innovation, creative solutions, and pragmatic applications in the area of information retrieval and management.
Past Recipients of the Dr. James R. Chen Award
2008
Track 1 — Information Policy and Management:
Buy Music, Make Money
Members: Hannes Hesse, Kevin Lim, Yiming Liu
Advisor: Yale Braunstein
Report | Presentation Slides
Track 2 — Information and User-Centered Design:
Spyn
Members: Daniela Rosner
Advisor: Kimiko Ryokai
Website | Report | Presentation Slides
Track 3 — Information System Implementation:
MD:Notes
Members: Zach Gillen, Jill Blue Lin, Katherine Ahern
Advisor: Robert Glushko
Website | Report | Showcase Slides | Presentation Slides
2007
Track 1 — Information in Context
Faculty Advancement Support Technology (FAST)
Members: Rich Meyer
Advisor: Raymond Yee
Report | Showcase Slides
Track 2 — User-Centered Design
Field/Mice Project
Members: Andrea Moed, Owen Otto
Advisor: Nancy Van House
Website | Showcase Slides
Track 3 — Social Information Systems
The First Time Project
Members: Mariano Ferrario, Jeffrey Kalvass, Christo Sims
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
Website | Report | Showcase Slides
2006
Track 1 — Social Mobility: Organizing Collaboration
iBuyRight
Members: Kelly Bryant, Helen Kim, Lilia Manguy, Shufei Lei
Advisor: Marti Hearst
Website
Track 2 — Searching and Viewing Content
Mycroft
Members: Judd Antin, Benjamin Hill, Andrea Nelson
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
Website | Report | Presentation Slides
Track 3 — The Social Life of Information
Social Uses of Communications Backchannels
Members: Matthew Rothenberg, Jennifer King
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
Website
2005
Track 1 — Collecting and Modeling Information
SylViA, The Syllabus Viewing Application
Members: Carolyn Cracraft, Lisa de Larios-Heiman
Advisor: Bob Glushko
Website
Track 2 — Social Media
Orpheus
Members: Brooke Maury, Vijay Viswanathan, Jeannie Yang
Advisor: Marti Hearst
Website
Track 3 — Understanding People Using Technology
Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life
Members: Rebecca Shapley, Denise Green
Advisor: Nancy Van House
Website
2004
First place:
UC Berkeley Calendar Network
Members: Allison Bloodworth, Myra Liu, Nadine Fiebrich, Zhanna Shamis
Advisor: Robert Glushko
Website
Second place:
Road Sage
Members: Mikhail Avrekh, John Han, Lauren Wilkinson
Advisor: Marti Hearst
Website
Third place:
UC Berkeley IT System Map
Members: Kristine Gual, Amy Todenhagen
Advisor: Robert Glushko
Second and Third place prizes were sponsored by KLA-Tencor.
2003
First place:
Muni Map
Members: Margaret Law, Kaichi Sung
Website
Second place:
GSO Executive Dashboard
Members: Vishal Badiani, Naidu Buyyala, Emily Liggett, Holly Liu
Third place:
Semantic Extraction with Wide-Coverage Lexical Resources
Members: Behrang Mohit
2002
First place:
Press Express
Members: Shirley Chan, Susanne Eklund
Website
Second place:
Medical Dictation & Transcription Program (MDTP)
Members: Carie Cazier, Linda Duffy, Sonia Klemperer-Johnson
Website
Third place:
eD
Members: Azeen Chamarbagwala, Steve Kafka, Ian Liu
Website
2001
First place:
Competitors+
Members: Yonghui Zhang, Mike Gebbie
Second place (tie):
ReadingTree
Members: Kirsten Swearingen, Amity Zeh
Website
Second place (tie):
Media Map
Members: Kim Norlen, Valerie Lanard, Gabriel Lucas
Website
Fourth place:
Dynamic Information Builder Project
Members: Shengdong Zhao, Alvin Kurniawan
