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Martinez Receives George Corcoran Student Award Roberto Martinez received the 1998 student George Corcoran Memorial Award. This award, presented annually by the Department of Electrical Engineering, recognizes excellence in teaching by a graduate student.

Ms. Melissa Moy, a senior in electrical engineering, received an Honorable Mention in the 1999 Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition. This award recognizes undergraduate students who show exceptional promise in an area of importance to computing research.

Ms. Moy’s research has been extensive for an undergraduate. Projects she has worked on include: software control for the Pinball Machine Redemption Project; the development of code for EchidnaTM, a real-time operating system; benchmarking EchidnaTM software modules on the Texas Instruments TMS320C541 fixed-point DSP chip; benchmarking and analysis of embedded software; and researching and writing device drivers.

Last summer, Ms. Moy was awarded an internship in the Research Internships in Telecommunications Engineering (RITE) Site program. In addition, at the program’s end-of-the-summer Rite Site Fair, Ms. Moy was the co-recipient of the Best Project Award, in a contest judged by a panel of both faculty and industry members. Her project was titled “Echidna: A Reconfigurable Real-Time Operating System for Digital Signal Processors”

The Computing Research Association (CRA) is an association of more than 180 North American academic departments of computer science and computer engineering (CS&E); laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies.