IBM 2005 North American Grid Scholars Challenge
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The judges John Hurley of Boeing, David Snelling of Fujitsu and Jean Pierre Prost and David Kra of IBM selected three winners from the 20 entries. There were more than 100 registered participants, including 17 student teams across 45 universities in the United States and Canada.
1 st place : Pu Liu, SUNY Binghamton, proposed the enablement of Web Service containers to accept new mobile code on the fly, and to run it within the containers, providing direct local access to the containers' other services.
Liu describes the idea: "This solves the problem rooted in the fact that different Web Services containers are implemented in different programming languages, with different constraints and requirements placed on the programmer; and client side programmers must use the Web Service interface specified by the service developer. Therefore, the kinds of applications and uses for a Web Service are unnecessarily restrictive, constrained by the granularity of access defined by the interface and by the characteristics of the service functions".
"Clients will be able to customize Web Services by our mobile code enabled Web Services. It brings more flexible, more efficient Web Services. We can expect simple and complete interfaces in mobile code enabled Web Services, which are desirable in system design. Due to the flexibility, it will also release theburden of designing ne for all' interfaces from services providers. Via customization, services providers can deliver Web Services with different QoS to meet variable clients' requirements." [ Read the full essay ]
Liu will receive a ThinkPad T Series laptop and his university will receive an IBM eServer Cluster 1350.
"The winning entry was creative and thought through; it had POTENTIAL RELEVANCE and APPLICABILITY to a real world problem. It spoke of issues that are real issues for those of us in the trenches. Its proposal was relevant and thought-provoking," explained Hurley.
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