MERIT Fair 2000                           Pictured: MERIT Fair best project award winners Tim Sloane, from Frostburg State University, and Daniel Petkovsek, from the University of Maryland. Their project, entitled "GPS Based Location Determination," was conducted in conjunction with Eric Fiterman from the University of Maryland. Supervisors for the project were Prof. P.S. Krishnaprasad and Babak Azimi Sadjadi, a Ph.D. student at Maryland. MERIT student Norman Lo, who is also from the University of Maryland, was also an advisor to the project.                     The second place winners for best project at the MERIT Fair were Varun Sarin, from the University of Maryland, and Stephen Boyer, who is also from the University of Maryland. Their project was entitled "Wide Band Gap Semiconductors," and was completed under the supervision of Dr. S. Scozzie, from the Army Research Laboratory, and Dr. R.D. Vispute, from the University of Maryland.                 Pictured: (from left to right) Prof. Rajeev Barua, Prof. Bruce Jacob, Kathleen Baynes and Christine Smit. Baynes' and Smit's project was entitled "Exploring Power Consumption using a Simulated Embedded Processor." The project supervisors were Jacob and graduate student Tiebing Zhang.                     Pictured: MERIT student James Lee and a distinguished guest. Lee's project, "Distributed Intrusion Detection of Low Intensity Concerted Attacks," was done in conjunction with student Michael Taliaferro, from the Colorado School of Mines. The supervisor for the project was Dr. Patrick Dowd, from the University of Maryland.                 Pictured: Dr. Joseph Mait, from the Army Research Laboratory, and Clint Edwards, from the University of Maryland. Edwards' project, entitled "Line-of-Sight Optical Communication Links," was done in conjunction with students Amit Patel, from the University of Maryland, and Julio Liriano, who is also from Maryland. Prof. Christopher Davis was the supervisor for the project. Mait is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Maryland.                     Pictured: (from left to right:) Meena Narayanan, former Maryland and RITE student from Lockheed Martin, who was a judge for the fair; student Norman Lo, from the University of Maryland, and Prof. Wes Lawson, who was also a judge for the fair. Lo's project, "Web-based Network Security," was conducted under the supervision of Prof. P.S. Patrick Dowd.                 Pictured: MERIT student Arthur Kong, from Cornell University. Kong's project, "Interprocedural Analysis for Developing Data and Control Independent Threads," was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Manoj Franklin and graduate student Anasua Bhowmik.                     Pictured: MERIT student Peter Parente, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Ms. Mary Miller, from the Army Research Laboratory. Parente's project, entitled "Software Development for a High-Performance, Free-Space Optical Interconnect System," was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Mario Dagenais and Dr. G. Simonis, from the Army Research Laboratory.                 Pictured: (from left to right): MERIT students Michael Levy, from Portland State University; Shimin Day, from the University of Maryland; and Prof. Adrian Papamarcou. Their project, "Sonification of Images," was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Shihab Shamma and Dr. Didier Depireux, both from the University of Maryland.                     Pictured (from left to right): MERIT student Nkwenten Ejedepang-Koge, from the University of Maryland; Prof. Wes Lawson; and Meena Narayanan. Ejedepang-Koge's project was entitled "Crosstalk Response on the All-Optical Lucent Ring Using an Aperiodic Signal," and was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Patrick Dowd, from the University of Maryland, and Jim Perreault, from the Army Research Laboratory.