During the final semester of their second year, I School MIMS students undertake final projects. The program’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 MIMS 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
2013
Track 1: Changing Behaviors
HouseCall
Members: Aijia Yan Rui Dai Sara Cambridge Yu-Hsiang (Sean) Chen
Advisor: Tapan Parikh
Website | Report
Track 2: Enhancing Information Systems
Mapestry
Members: Carinne Johnson Curtis Hwang J. Elliot Nahman Jennifer Wang Ryan McAdam
Advisor: Tapan Parikh
Website | Report
Track 3: Information Organization and Tools
Inpica
Members: Arian Shams Gaurav Shetti Jacob Portnoff Naila AlKhalawi
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
Website | Report
2012
Track 1: Changing Behaviors
Apps for Kids & Parents
Members: Elizabeth Ha, Emily Barabas, and Kristine Ng
Advisor: Deirdre Mulligan
Report | Presentation Slides
Track 2: Changing Business Processes
Acopio
Members: Ariel Chait and Paul Goodman
Advisor: Tapan Parikh
Website | Report
Track 3: Enhancing Information Systems
Pop Up Radio Archive
Members: Anne Wootton, Bailey R. Smith, and Christen Penny
Advisors: Robert Glushko and Ray Larson
Website | Report | Presentation Slides
2011
Track 1: Analysis of Information Systems
Heart-Focus Game Development for Kids
Members: Daniel Perry, Ian McDowell
Advisor: Nancy Van House
Website | Report | Presentation Slides
Track 2: Design of Information Systems
NextDrop
Members: Thejovardhana Kote
Advisor: Tapan Parikh
Website | Report | Presentation Slides
Track 3: Information Research
Making Metadata: The Case of MusicBrainz
Members: Jessica Hemerly
Advisor: Brian Carver
Website | Report | Presentation Slides
2010
Track 1: User-Centered Design
Transporter: A Real-time Public Transit App Designed for the Bay Area
Members: Ljuba Miljkovic
Advisor: Kimiko Ryokai
Report
Track 2: Information System Design
Migratory Words: Computational Tools for Investigative Political Research
Members: Gopal Vaswani, Hyunwoo Park, Jeremy Whitaker, Michael Manoochehri
Advisor: Eric Kansa
Website | Report | Presentation Slides
Track 3: Information Research and Analysis
City of San Francisco Open Email
Members: Ben Cohen
Advisor: Deirdre Mulligan
Website | Report
2009
Track 1: Organizational Issues (tie)
The OCHA Sitrep: Open Access and Political Pressure in Humanitarian Information
Members: Nicholas Rabinowitz
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
Report
KnowPrivacy
Members: Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick, Ashkan Soltani
Advisor: Brian Carver
Website | Report
Track 2: Social Networking and Collaboration
tldr - Interfaces for Large-Scale Online Discussion Spaces
Members: Srikanth Narayan
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
Website | Report | Presentation Slides
Track 3: Communication and Memory
Building Collective Memories Online
Members: Shanna Epstein
Advisor: Eric Kansa
Report
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
2000
First place:
HumanSaga: Interactive History Timelines on the Web
Members: David Chott, Jonathan Henke
Website
Second place:
i-select: A Web Based Application for Image Selection and Access
Members: Chaitee Sengupta, Masako Sho
Website
Third place:
DoubleQuote.com: Vertical Portal for Washington Correspondents
Members: Huney Kong
1999
Winners:
The Names Access Project: Helping Trace the Individual Histories of Holocaust Survivors and Victims
Members: Suzanne Ginsburg
"Suffragists Speak" Thematic Archive
Members: Rosalie Lack, Joanne Miller, Sally Thomas
Website
Gotcha: A Knowledge Management Portal
Members: Pamela Prescott, Arti Kirch, Qun Liang, Haydee Hernandez
Website