BOOM, or Bits On Our Minds, the fifth annual show organized by the Department of Computer Science and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- but which involves students from all over the campus displaying their computing projects -- will take up parts of three floors of Upson Hall from 4 to 6 p.m. March 6. Students will be on hand to explain their work, and many exhibits will include interactive displays.
"The purpose is to show off the talents of our students and for members of the department to find out about the breadth of research going on at Cornell," said Stephen Vavasis, associate professor of computer science, who chairs the event. About half of the exhibits will be of formal research projects being pursued for credit, but many will be ideas students are pursuing on their own, he said.
Applications to exhibit are still being accepted; interested students can apply online at www.cs.cornell.edu/boom/default.htm. This year two participants will be awarded prizes -- a Rio Mp3 player and an EasyDisk portable storage device -- based on a random drawing.
And this year's show also will have a virtual version -- every project will have its own web page, accessible through the BOOM front page.
BOOM '02 is sponsored by Credit Suisse/First Boston and Verizon.
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