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Home > Programs > Master's Program > Dr. James R. Chen Awards

Dr. James R. Chen Awards

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