Faculty of Engineering

School of EECS researchers are awarded the “2010 Project of the Year”

December 01, 2010


Guy-Vincent Jourdan,  Gregor von Bochmann, and Iosif Viorel Onut, Emre Dincturk and Kamara Benjamin, have received the prestigious “Project of the Year 2010 Award” for their project “A Strategy for Efficient Crawling of Rich internet Applications” This award is given by the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) IBM Canada.

Rich internet Applications are built using advanced web technologies which allow them to be more dynamic and enable better user experiences than their predecessors. This project was vital in designing and implementing a prototype for the Rational AppScan Enterprise and Rational Policy Tester products that is able to crawl and understand Ajax-based web applications.

In 2009-2010, this project resulted in five patent disclosures currently being evaluated by IBM, one master’s thesis, one publication, and several presentations and demos to the IBM development team.

Researchers involved with this project:

  • Dr. Guy-Vincent Jourdan, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
  • Dr. Gregor von Bochmann, Professor, University of Ottawa
  • Dr. Iosif Viorel Onut, CAS Research Staff Member, IBM Canada and Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa
  • Emre Dincturk, Ph.D. Student, University of Ottawa
  • Kamara Benjamin, M.Sc. Student, University of Ottawa

The CAS award recognizes individuals who best epitomize the mission of the Center for Advanced Studies, as set out in the following four statements:

  • Facilitate the exchange of academic research knowledge and real world industry challenges towards enhancing IBM products, processes & services
  • Establish IBM as the partner and employer of choice for top students as they learn and develop skills to create the technology of the future
  • Build and foster relationships among researchers, funding agencies, IBM, and customers
  • Expose IBM developers to current research directions, and identify new and emerging technology issues for academic research

For more details, visit IBM’s announcement page

 

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