Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — SSC Publications, publisher of the bi-monthly print magazine Embedded Linux Journal, is pleased to announce that finalists have been chosen in the Linux4.TV embedded Linux development contest.

Each finalist will receive the Linux4.TV development platform to complete their proposed project. The panel of judges includes well-known embedded community personalities such as: Century Software CEO Greg Haerr; LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum; David Pederson, STB director at National Semiconductor; and ELJ's own Editor in Chief, Don Marti.

Three winners will be selected from the finalists and each will receive a trip to Costa Rica.

The finalists are:

• The Linux Centertainment System, Gerry Normandin Jr.
• Session Initiation Protocol User Agent, Wilson Tang — website
• Project Entertainment Integration, John Needham — website
• Simple Security System, Charles Gales — website
• TVPhone, Michael S. Quicquaro — website
• TVRelay, Pavel Tkatchouk — website
• Local Media Set-top, John Kleven and Mark Clifton — website
• Multimedia Asset Management Systems for Embedded Systems,
  Frank Teoh and Teck Chew — website
• Music On Demand, Dennis Fleming and Jim Lavery Morgan Woodson
• SHAWM — SetTop Home Audio Workstation for Musicians, Stephen R. Savitzky — website
• Unified Media Terminal, Ryan Wahle
  website
• Sega Dreamcast “rebirth” add-on device, M. R. Brown and Julia Longtin — website
• The Lin-PVA Project, Laurent Michalkovic — website
• Home Surveillance System, Jacky Baltes — website
• Law Enforcement Video Recording System (LEVRS), Peter N. McMeekan — website
• Distance Education Device, Jason Erickson — website
• Choice of Programmable DVD player or Video Based Security System, Nathan Melanson — website

Completed projects will be due on October 31 and the final winners will be announced at Fall COMDEX on November 18, 2002. For additional information on the finalists and their projects see the May/June (#9) issue of Embedded Linux Journal.

 
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