The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences would like to express our its heartfelt appreciation to Ted Smith and Ramesh Jain for their extraordinary leadership of the 2007 hITEC OCTANe Student Competition.In addition to thanking each of the student teams for their commitment and hard work, the Bren School of ICS would like to thank each of its valuable volunteers: presenters, judges and mentors for their time, commitment and support.
2007 hITEC OCTANe Winners
Bren School Dean Debra J. Richardson
(right) poses with Dirk Wagner (l)
and Sameer Saproo as they accept
the award for their 1st place finish in
the hITEC OCTANe competition.1st Place ($5,000 sponsored by the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences )
Product: Tutorz LLC
Product Description: Tutorz is a Web 2.0 platform that captures service leads from consumers and brokers them to providers.
Tutorz stands out as an integrated system to search for service providers by context filtering, with social networking to generate 3rd party information about providers and has an innovative model for brokering service leads.
Team members: Dirk Wagner, Sameer Saproo, and Eric Olsson
Mentor: Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences Ramesh Jain
Bren School Dean Debra J. Richardson
(right) poses with Pabol Diaz-Gutierrez,
Michael Shafae and team mentor Tom
Miller as they accept the award for their
2nd place finish in the hITEC OCTANe
competition.2nd Place ($2,500 sponsored by Netreo)
Product Name: BigDaddyIM: IM Monitoring
Product Description: The product is a Wi-Fi enabled home broadband DSL/Cable router with a firewall that enables concerned parents to monitor their pre-teens Internet messaging.
The invasiveness or passivity of the monitoring can be tailored to a familys priorities easily via a Web based graphical user interface.
This presents parents with an easy-to-understand graph, showing the connection between their children and those who have sent messages, as well as the transcripts for those messages.
Team Members: Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, Michael Shafae, and Sabrina Austin
Mentor: Tom Miller
Bren School Dean Debra J. Richardson
(right) poses with Abhishek Amit (r)
Arya Asemanfar and Robert Olson as
they accept the award for their 3rd place
finish in the hITEC OCTANe competition.3rd Place ($1,500 sponsored by Northwind Ventures)
Product Name: Liffy
Product Description:Liffy revolutionizes the process of ordering food from restaurants. It reduces the amount of time consumers have to spend waiting to order food, gives them more choices and flexibility, and makes the process more cost effective for businesses.
Cell phones provide a remote ordering service for restaurants. The ability to place orders in advance is a significant time saver and makes the process for getting food to the consumer almost seamless.
With Liffy, consumers can browse nearby restaurants and their menus on their own time, pick and choose what they would like to eat, and finally simply walk in or use the drive-thru window to pick their order up.
Team Members: Robert Olson, Abhishek Amit, and Arya Asemanfar
Mentors:Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences Ramesh Jain
