BOOM is back! BOOM provides sponsors with a unique opportunity to network with students and faculty, recruit future hires, choose winning student projects, and highly your company to this highly attended event! Corporate sponsorship commitments are due by December 30, 2016.
The prize is an Apple Mini iPad!
BOOM LOGO IS USED FOR:
SWAG-T-shirts, Invitations, Programs, Posters!
On Our Website!
Deadline: October 21, 2016!
Only Cornell students are eligible to enter.
For all logos, these are the guidelines:
The design must contain the words “BOOM 2017” and “Bits On Our Minds.” These can be lower- or upper-case. Do not use any additional text.
Multiple submissions are encouraged!!!
How to Submit Your Logo? Submit to boom@cornell.edu
Submit your logo(s) in the following format:
If you have any questions, email boom@cornell.edu
We look forward to seeing your work!
BOOM 2017 will be held Wednesday, April 19 in Duffield Hall. Watch this site for announcements about a student logo contest as well as submissions deadlines for the event.
2015 BOOM Award Winners
People’s Choice: CUAir
Where’s the BOOM: Embedding Students and Educational Content from Online Courses
Capital One Award: Automated Perforator Flap MRA Reporting
Intel Award: Cornell Mars Rover
GE: IT Imagination at Work Award: Rapid Circuit Prototyping
Bloomberg Award: GIX
Google Moonshot Award: Rapid Circuit Prototyping
Goldman Sachs Award: GIX
For more information on student projects visit boom.cornell.edu.
BOOM Bits on Our Minds 2015 will be held March 25 from 4:00-6:00 pm in the Duffield Hall Atrium. Free and open to the public!
BOOM 2015 Project Submission is Open! Deadline is 11:59pm on Tuesday, March 10th. Submission is under the Students and Faculty Tab. We can’t wait to see your project!
The prize is an Apple Mini iPad!
BOOM LOGO IS USED FOR:
SWAG-T-shrits, Invitations, Programs, Posters!
On Our Website!
Deadline, December 1st!
Only Cornell students are eligible to enter.
For all logos, these are the guidelines:
The design must contain the words “BOOM 2014” and “Bits On Our Minds.” These can be lower- or upper-case. Do not use any additional text.
Multiple submissions are encouraged!!!
How to Submit Your Logo? Submit to boom@cornell.edu
Submit your logo(s) in the following format:
If you have any questions, email boom@cornell.edu
We look forward to seeing your work!
By Bill Steele, Cornell Chronicle
Imagine a scale that reads not only your weight, but also blood pressure, heart rate and other aspects of your condition, and automatically sends the data to the cloud for storage. Or a work light that follows your hands around, shining just on the place you need it. Such products might be on the market in a couple of years, because Cornell students are working on them now.
The 17th annual BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) exhibition in Duffield Hall Atrium March 26 could be thought of as a trade show of the future, said Saba Alemayehu, assistant to the chair of Information Science and project manager for BOOM. Although sponsored by Cornell Computing and Information Science (CIS), in collaboration with the College of Engineering, the event brings in projects that use digital technology from students in many disciplines all over the university. What students are working on today may well be commercial products tomorrow, Alemayehu said. Some of the student exhibitors indeed were talking about startups.
In keeping with industry trends, this year’s show leaned to health-related applications, “big data” computing and social media applications.
On display as in previous years were the automated submarine and aircraft built by engineering students to enter every year in national competitions. Cornell is considered one of the “powerhouse schools” that wins more often than others.
In between you might see a checkers-playing robot and a lot of technical displays using words like “functionality” and “machine translation.” And, of course, lots of games.
Also prominent were BOOM’s corporate sponsors, Goldman Sachs, Google, eBay, Yahoo! and General Electric, who see the event as an opportunity to check out and recruit Cornell talent. As usual, their booths were manned by recent Cornell grads who now work for the companies. CIS faculty members also were frequently seen in the packed crowd.
Possibly the most popular attraction was a demonstration of a robot built by a team of Ithaca High School students – mentored by Cornell undergrads – that won the FIRST Robotics Buckeye Regional competition in Cleveland last weekend. The audience for the demo was heavy with elementary and middle school students bused in for BOOM.
The afternoon concluded with presentation of awards. The People’s Choice Award, selected by a vote of visitors, went to the CU Automated Underwater Vehicle team. Where’s the BOOM?, chosen by faculty, went to B33P (pronounced “beep”) – a game for children. Each corporate sponsor presented an award: GE Imagination at Work Award to Pulso, an assistive navigation device for the visually impaired; eBay Innovator’s Award to Speare, an artificial intelligence that informs online news sites about their readers; Goldman Sachs Award also to Pulso; and the Googleyist Project Award to Definitions Extractions from Code of Federal Regulations.
By Matt Kelly, Ithaca Journal
ITHACA — The future is here at Cornell University.
Undergraduate and graduate students from Cornell Computing
and Information Science, and the College of Engineering dazzled visitors with cutting-edge inventions at the 2014 BOOM — Bits On Our Minds — technology showcase Wednesday at Cornell’s Duffield Hall.
Anil Aksu, left, a first year civil engineering Ph.D. student feels an assisted navigational device that allows visually impaired individuals to find their way through the use of ultrasonic and infrared sensors held by Shane Soh, a senior in computer engineering, at BOOM 2014 at Cornell’s Duffield Hall. / ED DITTENHOEFER/CORRESPONDENT PHOTO
Projects at this year’s showcase reflected areas that dominate our daily modern lives. From health and media to drone technology and recreation, this year’s collection of projects placed a heavy emphasis on interpreting data into visible interaction.
“Anytime you have some sort of project or app that’s going out, you have some aspect of data collection with it,” said Saba Alemayehu, project manager from Cornell Computing and Information Science. “Big data is the big thing.”
One of the more practical projects for Ithacans is a bus-tracking mobile phone application that could simplify public transportation downtown. The app enables users to select a numbered bus route and instantly find out where the bus will stop, what time it will arrive and even track its location on a map.
Alex Kittelberger and Christopher Jonathan, graduate students in the Cornell Master of Engineering program in Computer Science, showed off the app’s capabilities using real-time data from the Chicago Transit Authority. Kittelberger said the biggest challenge of implementing the application in Ithaca would be installing GPS tracking information on the TCAT buses. However, he said he does envision the app being practical for the local community.
“Buses usually start at one spot at a specific time, but then those middle stops make it so that you don’t know if it’s going to be two minutes late or two minutes early,” Kittelberger said. “If it’s freezing outside, like this winter has been in Ithaca, and I don’t want to wait 15 minutes out in the cold, this mobile app can help me check.”
Other projects contained technology that could potentially have an impact around the globe. Joel Heck, a student in the Master of Engineering program, is a member of CUAir, a group that competes annually in unmanned aircraft competitions. Heck said his team’s aircraft could be valuable in search-and-rescue missions.
“Our plane has an autopilot program that flies itself; we just tell it to go to different GPS wave points,” Heck said. “For instance, with the Malaysian aircraft that went down, you’re looking for a debris field, and there’s a lot of manned aircraft that only have a certain amount of time that they can be out there. If you have a computer looking at those images, you’d be able to find those things much faster.”
Other inventions on display included a scale and accompanying mobile app that enabled users to track vitals like weight, heart rate, blood pressure and cholesterol; a digital platform that tracks reader analytics for news media publishers; and sensors that convert the body’s electromagnetic pulses into colored lights that indicate stress levels.
This year’s BOOM showcase was sponsored by several giants in the technology industry such as Facebook, eBay, Google and Yahoo!, who had representatives on hand to speak with students about internship opportunities.
While the technology at this year’s BOOM showcase appeared futuristic, many of these inventions may be out in the world sooner rather than later.
“It’s about how we can communicate to the public and let them know about a really cool app that you can use in your daily life,” Alemayehu said. “A lot of these projects can be applicable to our daily lives and actually mirror what we’re projecting into the future.”
