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Paper Winners Announced
The ASIS Foundation, Inc., and the Standing Committee on Academic Programs in Colleges and Universities have announced the winners of its ist International Contest for Student Papers on Security and Assets Protection and have already sounded a call for submissions to the second annual contest. This year, the competition, which is designed to promote scholarly research and writing at the college and university level, drew entrants from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Papers were judged in two categories: graduate and undergraduate. Students could only compete in the category for which their current class work placed them.
The Gold Medal winner in the graduate division was Layne Hesse of Edith Cowan University, in Perth, Western Australia. Hesse's paper was titled "The Transition of Video Motion Detectors to Intelligent Scene Discrimination and Target Tracking in Automated Video Surveillance Systems." An Honorable Mention was given to John Travers of Leicester University, Leicester, England, who submitted the paper, "Effective Management Strategies to Prevent Workplace Violence Crimes of Fraud and Terrorism."
In the undergraduate division, the Gold Medal Award was presented to...