The Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) Department at Asia University (AU) cooperates with the BlueEyes Technology Group to hold the “BlueEyes Cup Contest” which is mainly a competition for university students to design creative programs. Totally, 20 teams participated in the contest. After a training of half a year, AU students Shang-Ming Wang and Jia-Wei Hong from the CSIE Dept. won the 1st-place award and a bonus of 10,000 NT dollars by their work “Intelcalling.”

“This is not only a contest but also a good opportunity for students to learn creative programming,” said the chair of the CSIE Dept., Prof. Wen-Chung Shih, “and the goal of the contest is to design an Android-based program of an ‘intelligent call-number machine’ to solve the problem of long-queue waiting in restaurants, reduce the need of manpower, and raise the overall degree of customers’ satisfaction.” Chair Shih also mentioned that after a customer gets a queue number before waiting in line in a restaurant, he/she can know the queue situation from the call-number machine, or can be informed to come back by cellphone messages if he/she is not in the waiting line.

From June 20 of last year, The chair of the Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering (BIME) Dept., Prof. Chih-Yang Lin and two other professors Cheng-Hung Chuang and Yung-Chen Chou from the CSIE Dept. guided the students involved in the competition to practice programming techniques, and asked them to present a progressive report every two weeks. Both the General Manager Jun-Ming Huo and the Technical Manager of the R&D Department of the BlueEyes Technology Group also came to AU to supervise the student team every two weeks. They together helped the students to be more capable of designing innovative programs.

From the works of the 20 teams participating in the competition, a joint panel of the BlueEyes Group and the CSIE Dept. at AU selected one work for the first-place award and three others as honorable mentions. The three honorable-mention works are “iSmart – a Waiting-free Ticketing System,” by Yi-Cheng Chen and Yu-Xuan Qiu; “Must Eat,” by Zong-Cheng Guo and Bo-You Shen; and “Food has no flavor? Taste It and You Will Know” by YA-Qing Zhang, Wei-Ru Huang and Yan-Ling XU. The awarded students are all from the CSIE Dept. Each of the three works won a bonus of 5,000 NT dollars.

Shang-Ming Wang and his teammates who won the first-place award thanked the supervising professors and the technical manager of BlueEyes Group for their guidance in the training period of their team. He said that they had no experience of writing Android programs before the contest, but with great efforts of learning in the summer vacation, they finally won the award by completing an App program of an “intelligent call-number machine.”

”We won't be satisfied until you are! We don't succeed until you do!” said the General Manager of the BlueEyes Group, Jun-Ming Huo. He also mentioned that BlueEyes is a vivid and fast-growing company, not only emphasizing team-working but also self-management. He encouraged AU students to join them after graduation to face challenges in the real world of technology development.