BCNET is again hosting their annual Broadband Innovation Challenge (BIC), formerly known as the Coolest Applications Contest (CAC). The information for Year 2009 is now available at:
http://www.bc.net/news_events_publications/competitions.htm
BCNET is the regional high-performance education and research network (part of CANARIE/CA*Net4, the national one), linking all BC universities and research institutions and providing UVicNet the access to both the commodity Internet and the Optical Regional Advanced Network (ORAN).
The annual competition is to encourage both undergraduate and graduate students in all departments and research areas to come up with cool ideas and demo new applications that can take advantage of the high-performance network (now going to multiple 10Gbps backbone trunks with ORAN/ROADM).
The students can work individually or in a team on a project demo-able by middle March 2009, and the selected winners awarded with cash prizes will present their projects at the annual BCNET conference in April 2009, which is attended by university faculty/staff members and students, as well as industry professionals, in BC and around the world.
Essentially, any course/thesis/self-motivated projects that UVic students have been doing in 2008/2009 with an application on high-speed networks are eligible. Note: BIC/CAC is about *applications* on *networks*, not necessarily networking research, so it’s open to all engineering students regardless of their academic programs and research areas.
Last year, a UVic undergraduate has put his name on BIC’s winners’ list. This year, we hope more UVic undergraduate and graduate students can participate and use this opportunity to impress researchers, their professors and future employers.
Attached below please find the announcement from BCNET and the links to “Intention to Apply” and “Application” documents. If you have difficulties to click through or copy&paste from email, an HTML copy is available at
http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~pan/bcnet
Feel free to contact BCNET or me if you have any questions. Thanks