Solaris 10 University Challenger Winner: Sergej Alekseev of Oldenburg University
Congratulations to the winner of the Sun Microsystems University Challenge 2006.
Sergej Alekseev of Oldenburg University in Germany and his professor, Gunther Stiege, created the JDLabAgent, a debugging agent for Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which extended the debugging functions built into Solaris DTrace technology, demonstrating Java observability on large-scale projects.
The program was tested using Solaris and Solaris Cluster running on Sun Fire x64 servers, and was successfully applied in several joint research projects with private industry.
The Solaris University Challenge is a contest serving as a showcase for the innovation and talent of students worldwide who created projects with the free and open source Solaris Operating System. A panel of experts judged submissions on usability, quality, innovation, effective use of technology, and benefits to Solaris OS users and the Open Solaris OS community.
Sergej's project was selected from more than 330 entries from 15 eligible countries. Four other projects merited honorable mentions:
- Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Russian Federation
Alexandre Lepekhin
Aleksey Averev
Dmitry Kushnir
Tatiana Roitman
Project: ACADEMY+
System automates all important document workflow processes in a standard library and provides standardized (std. protocol Z39.50) access to the on line public access catalog.
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Brigham Young University, Provo UT, USA
Jon Collette
Brett Larson
James Frazee
Project: Anonymously Linking Data Records (DeIDentification)
The Anonymously Linking Data Records project is an information confidentiality application. It has a database that limits
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Juilliard School, New York, USA
Jonathan Soons
Project: Printchecks Check Printing Program
This application takes a text report from a database and creates a PostScript file of negotiable checks including MICR line on magnetic toner that can be printed on plain paper over a secure connection avoiding the risk of having blank checks or locally installed resources.
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Manish Rai Jain
Pragyan Paramita Sahoo
Wei Lei
Liu Wei
Project: NTFS for Solaris
This is a port from the FreeBSD NTFS module into Solaris.
As the winner, Sergej will receive $5,000 USD and a Sun Ultra workstation. Oldenburg University receives a credit with the retail value of $100,000 good toward the purchase of Sun Microsystems products.
All of the submissions were exceptional. Thanks to everyone who entered.
