WebTOP Honors

1997

• Professors John T. Foley and David C. Banks won a Phil Hardin Foundation Technology Award from the Mississippi Institutes for Higher Learning. This award is given to provide public recognition to faculty and staff who are using information technologies in outstanding or exemplary ways.

2000

• Kiril Vidimce received the Outstanding Undergraduate Research award from Mississippi State University in 2000, primarily for his work on The Optics Project on the Web (WebTOP).

2001

• Sara Smolensky received the Outstanding Woman Undergraduate award from Mississippi State University
• Sara Smolensky received an Honorable Mention award in the national Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award.

2002

• S. Davis Herring lead Mississippi State's programming team to a first place finish at the Southeastern regional ACM Programming Contest. The team participated in the International ACM Programming Contest in Los Angeles and finished in third place in the Java Challenge portion of the competition.
• Ben Wyser received the Outstanding Mathematics Student award from the Department of Mathematics of Mississippi State University in 2002.
• Ben Wyser received an Honorable Mention award in the national Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award.

2003

• Professor John T. Foley received the 2003 George B. Peagram Medal from the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society "For his outstanding undergraduate and graduate teaching and his creativity, leadership, and dissemination of The Optics Project."

2004

• S. Davis Herring won a prestigious Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship to support his graduate school studies. The competition for these fellowships is nationwide and all science students are eligible; only nineteen were awarded in 2004.
• Frances D. Carter won, in a nationwide competition, a National Science Fellowship to support her graduate school studies.
• WebTOP was selected as a finalist in the Information and Communication Technologies category in the IX edition of the Pirelli INTERNETional Award (http://www.pirelliaward.com).

2009

• Sara Ford published a book, "Microsoft Visual Studio Tips," (Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 2009).

Miscellaneous

• WebTOP programmers have won Mississippi State University's ACM Programming Contest five times.