Nokia And AT&T Award $100,000 To Georgia Institute Of Technology

May 2, 2007 – 1:08 pm

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Nokia and AT&T recently awarded 15 students at the Georgia Institute of Technology $100,000 for creating next-generation mobile applications as part of the 2007 IMS Research Competition.

The contest started last October.

Winners include:

Grand Prize and Campus Community Category Winner: Christian Menkens from St. Wolfgang, Austria; Matthew Rhodes from Angleton, Texas; Anders Davoust from, Vaxjo, Sweden and Nikls Kjellin from Enkoping.

Business User Category Winner: Dannon Teremiah Baker from Augusta, Georgia; David McCann from Lawrenceville, Georgia and John Etherton from Jacksonville, Fla. were awarded for their creation of Distributed Asset Tracking, an inventory and asset management application that enables camera-phones to scan barcodes and track inventory, without the need for
separate RFID or scanning devices.

IMS Enabling Category Winner: Vinesh “Vinny” Ramachandran from Dalton, Georgia was awarded for his creation of Extensible Triggering Services, an application that allows a network to make changes to a particular phone’s settings, based on the user’s presence and preferences.

Young Adults/Teens Category Winner: Gaurishankar “Shanks” Krishnan from Bangalore, India and Shivam Goyal from Bhopal, India were awarded for their creation of mobMedia, a location-based media sharing and social networking application.

Family Category Winner: Devin Hunt from Atlanta and David Jimison from Washington, D.C. were awarded for their creation of Kinship, a distributed live video sharing application that instantly uploads video to a server and also provides video sharing, location-based video collaboration and chat features.

Honorable mention was awarded to the team of Robert Watts from Dunwoody, Georgia; Andrew Trusty from Atlanta and Priyanka Mahalanabis from Decatur, Georgia for their creation of Family Game Suite, a network gaming server application that allows a family to play games against each other and simultaneously chat on their mobile devices. This team will be awarded
$5,000 to split among team members.

Congratulations to all of the winners in this very innovative mobile content contest.

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