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Ricoh & Java™ Developer Challenge - Innovating Technology
Grand Final 2009 - Winners Announced
London, 3rdApril 2009 - Ricoh welcomed the European student finalists and their professors to the 2009 Grand Final of the Ricoh andJava™Developer Challenge, held at Ricoh’s European Technology Centre.
The Challenge set by Ricoh and Sun Microsystems in September 2008 was to develop an innovative Java application that could be embedded on a Ricoh Multifunctional Product (MFP). Submission quality was very high this year, with entries received from universities across Europe. National winners from France, Germany, Hungary, Norway and Spain made it through to the Grand Final. The winning student teams demonstrated their application live on a Ricoh MFP to a panel of technical and commercial judges from Ricoh and Sun who were looking for a balance of technical innovation and marketability, when reviewing this year’s entries.
Click here to see the competitors in action
The Grand Final Winning Application
We congratulate Team door2world - Balázs Lájer and Zoltán Szabó, together with their professor Zoltán Juhász from the University of Pannonia in Hungary.
Their OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) application was highly scored for practicality, technical aspects and business potential. OMR automates answer sheet marking, eliminating the need for costly specialised equipment. Master templates can be created using any standard office package, the master sheet complete with the correct answers is then scanned into the Ricoh MFP for comparison against scanned answer sheets, and a summary of the test results is printed from the MFP.
Winning team demonstrate at JavaOne
As part of their first prize Balázs Lájer and Zoltán Szabó, from the University of Pannonia in Hungary, attended the JavaOne conference (1-5 June) in San Francisco, USA, hosted by co-sponsors Sun Microsystems. There they had the honour to meet Sun founder James Gosling and demonstrate their winning application on the main stage.
To view the demonstration please click here and watch the Chapter 4 video after 12 minutes.
Sun Microsystems Co-Sponsors the Challenge
Sun Microsystems was founded by student developers, and know that some of the best application development comes from students. Sun is committed to helping student developers get started on the right foot. They offer free software, open-source code, tools, and the widely adopted Solaris platform. Jump-start your career with Sun