SIGBio won second place for their project CyberGerm 2.0, which demonstrated a self-regulating, artificial ecosystem where the life forms adapt to habitat and other competing life forms. This biocomputing group consisted of Mark Zinthefer, Kevin Stumph, Sabrina Merchant, Rob Harmon and Patrick Young. The group used handheld HP Jornadas, which were contributed to the department to provide students with real-world experience developing applications. HP Labs donated funds to purchase additional equipment, and Microsoft gave needed software for the project. The group included, Neal Gokli, Chad Heim, Josh Michels, Moosa Muhammad, Mike O'Connor, Michal Sabala, Keith Schacht, and John Simon.
Web interface the night before.
Another project to use HP donated technology and featured in HP s CoolTown Website was the wireless land rover built by the operating systems group, SigOps . The Web-server robot can be controlled remotely via the Web.