Rice student wins Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Award

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– December 18, 2001Posted in: News Releases

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RICE
STUDENT WINS COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION’S
OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE
AWARD
Adam Stubblefield honored for his research potential



Adam Stubblefield, a
third-year student at Rice University in Houston, has been chosen to receive the
Outstanding Male Undergraduate Award by the Computing Research Association
(CRA).


The award, which
includes a cash prize of $1,000, recognizes outstanding potential in an area of
computing research and will be presented at a national computing-research
conference in 2002.


Stubblefield, from
Alexandria, Va., is working toward a bachelor’s degree in mathematics to be
awarded in May 2002. He specializes in research in computer security and applied
cryptography. This past summer he developed the first attack on a wireless
computing standard, the Wireless Equivalent Privacy protocol. He was also part
of the Rice/Princeton University team that unscrambled the Secure Digital Music
Initiative code — digital watermarks developed by the recording industry to
prevent and/or allow the playing and copying of digital music. His adviser at
Rice is Dan Wallach, assistant professor of computer science and in electrical
and computer engineering.


The CRA comprises more
than 190 North American academic departments of computer science, computer
engineering and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government
and academia involved in basic computing research, and affiliated societies. The
association’s outstanding undergraduate awards for 2002 were sponsored by
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.



Rice University is consistently ranked one of America’s
best teaching and research universities. It is distinguished by its: size-2,700
undergraduates and 1,500 graduate students; selectivity-10 applicants for each
place in the freshman class; resources-an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio
of 5-to-1, and the fifth largest endowment per student among private American
universities; residential college system, which builds communities that are both
close-knit and diverse; and collaborative culture, which crosses disciplines,
integrates teaching and research, and intermingles undergraduate and graduate
work. Rice’s wooded campus is located in the nation’s fourth largest city and on
America’s South Coast.








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