Michael Howe -- collaborative filtering
(Pandora)
Jeff Duzak -- intersection detection between 3D
objects
Patrick Dengler -- string matching
Rick Byers -- garbage collection
Scott Anson/Sam Lester -- algorithms in sports
scheduling
Mary Ann Joy -- comp bio -- finding high scoring
subsequences
Jingwei Lu -- document search and
ranking
Slavik Krassovsky -- functionality and placement in
distributed systems
Fabricio Voznika/Leonardo Viana --
classification in data mining
Munirul Abedin -- genetic algorithms
Gokul Thirumalai -- Using network flow for
capacity planning in distributed systems
Rock Hymas/Joe Forsmann -- widget
layout
Igor Zinkovsky -- Data compression and the LZX
algorithm
Jack Zhong -- trunk selection for routing
Matthew Kerner -- Byzantine failures
Alexey Maykov -- quadratic assignment
Erin Geaney -- simulated annealing
Jeremy Calvert -- stream data mining
Drew Hoskins -- the ordered tree edit-distance
problem