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Fluid Bandwidth
Former Olympic cyclist Timm Peddie (above) of the University of Texas, Austin, was the contest's only one-man team with his plan for a voice-over-the-Internet company, Fluid Bandwidth — his third startup effort.
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Kwaish
Stanford University's Kwaish team was big on enthusiasm--but small on details about their handheld wireless technology. One of Kwaish's biggest ongoing challenges is where to eat. Will it be Mexican, Chinese, Indian, or American food? Each is home-cooking to somebody on this team.
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RedFolio
Purdue University's RedFolio team plans to create Net-based artificial-intelligence systems for manufacturers. "The attitudes here are more free-wheeling than those in the Midwest," said Herman Estrada of RedFolio.
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Quicksilver Genomics
Most plans involved information technology. The exception: Quicksilver Genomics, a team from the University of California at San Francisco, whose members are pursuing PhDs in the life sciences. At left, biophysicist Sandra Waugh dons a white coat for her research in exotic experimental structural biology. Quicksilver's mission: to accelerate drug discovery via the Web.
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KnowNow
The KnowNow team, from the University of California at Irvine, hopes to turn its Web-based event-notification technology into a hit. They rented a red Cadillac during the conference. "We'll tempt the gods by acting like we're going to win," grinned team leader Rohit Khare (right).
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