Vancouver, BC, April 23, 2008 – BCNet puts on the Broadband Innovation Challenge to promote student innovation with respect to the use of high-bandwidth networks. At the 2008 Challenge, students from UBC’s Computer Science department took top prize in the graduate student category and 3 prizes in the undergraduate category.
In the graduate student portion of the competition Brendan Cully won 1st place for his application SecondSite. SecondSite uses a virtualization platform for seamless, efficient disaster recovery.
In the undergraduate category:
1st place went to Charles Bihis, Victor Chan, Jason Hui, and Andrew Tjia for a peer-to-peer picture sharing system called Picture2Picture. Their application improves on photo-sharing applications by cutting out the need for a central server and with it, a single-point of failure. Learn more at:
http://p2p.thecube.ca/home
There was a tie for 2nd place:
* Chris Binckly, Daniel Dent, and Ian South-Dickinson for their project on distributed content delivery and processing system;
* Tane Adam, Yanik Berube, and Taivo Evard for their project Ramet, a peer-to-peer backup system based on erasure codes. This team also got 3rd place in the poster competition.
More on UBC winners here:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/news/press/BCNetCompetition2008.shtml
More on BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge here:
http://www.bc.net/news_events_publications/competitions.htm
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