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.
The Grand Final winning application for 2009 was OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) from Team door2world, scoring highly for practicality, technical aspects and business potential. OMR automates answer sheet marking, eliminating the need for costly specialised equipment.
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 Sun Video of Grand Final and watch the Chapter 4 video after 12 minutes
