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For WWW8, certificates were awarded for Best Paper, Best Presentation
and Best Poster. The Program Committee wishes to thank IBM,
Addison-Wesley and Foretec
Seminars for the prizes they generously supplied to supplement the
award certificates.
Best Paper
The Program Committee used votes by the paper reviewers to select the Best
Paper. The award was presented to:
"Focussed Crawling: A New Approach for Topic-Specific Resource Discovery"
Soumen Chakrabati, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom
Prizes: WWW9 Passport courtesy of Foretec Seminars, Travel Bursary
courtesy of IBM
Best Presentation
The Best Presentation award was decided by a ballot of the delegates. The
winner was:
Mary Fernandez, presenting "A Query Language for XML"
(Alin Deutsch, Mary Fernandez, Daniela Florescu, Alon Levy, Dan Suciu)
Prizes: WWW9 Passport courtesy of Foretec Seminars, Travel Bursary
courtesy of IBM, books courtesy of Addison-Wesley
Best Poster
The Best Poster award was decided by a ballot of the delegates. There were
three posters which were clearly preferred by the delegates so three certificates
were awarded:
Best Poster
"WebPlaces: Adding People to the Web"
Paul P. Maglio and Rob Barrett
Prizes: WWW9 Passport courtesy of Foretec Seminars, Travel Bursary
courtesy of IBM, books courtesy of Addison-Wesley
Commended Posters
"Using the WWW for Teaching and Assessment of Electrical Engineering"
Melissa Norfolk, Craig Burton, Iven Mareels and Robert Barnett
Prize: Travel Bursary courtesy of IBM
"WWWPal Client-Server Systems for Webgraphs"
John Punin, Yongxing Wang and Mukkai Krishnamoorthy
Prize: Travel Bursary courtesy of IBM
Participant Prizes
At the closing plenary session, ballot papers from the Best Presentation
and Best Poster ballots were drawn by the Awards Chair, Simon Phipps, and
the winners given Canadian memorabilia.
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