The Guy Labonte Memorial Award
for Creativity And Intelligence
in Computer Science.


Remembering Guy Labonte at Penn
Nomination Process
Stories of Guy Labonte
Contact

Nominees and Award Winners
    Nominees 1999
    Nominees 2000 ?

Make a 2000 Nomination before May 10th
    Rules
    Make a 2000 nomination


Guy Labonte, BSE CSE,
Penn Engineering Class of 1997.

Remembering Guy Labonte at Penn
The Guy Labonte Memorial Award for Creativity And Intelligence in Computer Science. was created to remember Guy Labonte as he was know at Penn. Guy was a very smart and creative individual whose life was cut short by a car accident in 1998. Guy was not especially concerned with his GPA, although I'm sure it was high. Guy always seemed to have creative and correct solutions to problems. His work ranged from a cryptographic file system to 3d graphics and AI. I'm sure he was good at all of them.
Read more stories about Guy.

This award is different than the Guy Labonte Memorial Award for a Computer Graphics Senior Project created by The Center for Human Modeling and Simulation at the University of Pennsylvania. Both awards were created on their own. The awards will not be consolidated because this covers a broader area in Penn Computer Science which has few awards, and allows students to nominate their peers.

Nominations

  • This award is an open nomination award for University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Seniors.
  • Students, faculty, and staff are invited to nominate members of the senior class who have shown both creativity and intelligence through their time at Penn. Winners will be picked only from serious nominations of eligible seniors. One or more Penn Students will be recognized each year, from those nominated.
  • You can nominate University of Pennsylvania Seniors by sending mail to davidrn@pobox.com.
  • You can nominate your friend, or somebody who is just a legend to you.
  • Nominations for the Seniors in the class of 2000 are due by May 10, 2000.
  • Those who are selected will be notified, and this page will be updated shortly after.

    Please do not offer to contribute money to this award. His family has asked that donations be given in his name to Phillips Exeter Academy, so that they may provide more scholarships.

    Stories of Guy Labonte
    When Guy took CSE 350 he was selected out from the group to work on a slightly different project by the TA because his first assignment was so far ahead of the group. He made an encryption program, like the assignment said to do, but his had a Tickle/TK GUI interface! I was picked too, because I tried to make my own encryption algorithm.
    We worked together all semester on an authentication file system. It was hard to keep up with his learning curve. In some ways I feel like he already knew how to do everything.

    For the CSE 391 final project we had to build a planner that would act as an agent to figure out how to accomplish a goal in a small 5-10 room environment. His project had 2 Agents: Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Wile E. Coyote's goal was to catch the Road Runner, which had a goal of not being caught. Aside from the creativity of the concept alone, the project seemed to work better than many of the others. It may not have been the best project, but it was the most interesting by far, and the only one I remember.

    These are just a few of the stories I remember.
    - David J Whalen-Robinson (davidrn@pobox.com)

    Contact:
    This site is maintained by:
    David Robinson
    davidrn@pobox.com
    Penn CSE Class of 1997
     

    Nominees and Award Winners:

    Class of 1999
    This year, was the first year of the award, and there was not enough participation to select an individual, but all of the seniors nominated deserve recognition for their unique talents and the energy they have put into their study of Computer Science.

    Nominees, in no particular order.
    Stuart Eichert
    Stuart.Eichert.wh99@wharton.upenn.edu
    http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~seichert/    		 Stuart was in classes with me, he was a sophomore when I graduated, and I took some hard classes. Now he's working on an OS.
    Christopher Geyer
    cgeyer@seas.upenn.edu
    http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cgeyer/    		 Chris was also in many classes with me, yet he was 2 years behind me. Good at abstract math and good at programming.
    Brian Kravitz
    BrianKravitz@mindspring.com
    (new web site on the way)    		 "absolutely amazing and creative"
    - nomination letter.
    Jon Kaplan
    kaplanj@seas.upenn.edu
    http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~kaplanj/    		 Apparently Sun had his complex Java based Solaris demo on their site, as part of the main business site. We aren't talking about a little example of an applet here.
    Geoff Milord
    gemilord@seas.upenn.edu
    http://homepage.seas.upenn.edu/~gemilord/    		 Won The Moore School Council Cwikla Award. Worked on lower level systems programming projects.
    Daniel Nord
    dnord@seas.upenn.edu
    http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~dnord/    		 Good CSE student? I can't say, but his web site shows he cares more about learning what he wants that what grade or honors he gets doing it. His senior project in graphics, drew enough attention to earn him a heart felt nomination.
    Please send davidrn@pobox.com contact and web site address updates, thank you.