The App Innovation Contest hosted on the CodeProject, and sponsored by Intel® Software, officially concluded on December 13, 2012.

There were seven app categories in which contestants competed:  Gaming, Entertainment, Productivity, Healthcare, Education and a “Total Innovation” open category. Apps were judged using four primary criteria: Innovation, User Experience, Ultrabook enablement, and Quality.  Four amazing industry experts were the judges: Scott Hanselman, Web Technologist, Microsoft Corporation; Steve Smith, Executive Vice President, Services, Telerik; Alvin Ashcroft, Expert Software Engineer, Allscripts; and Chris Maunder, Cofounder, CodeProject.

Additional details and official results can be found on the CodeProject site. Congratulations to all the winners, and a huge thank you to the judges who sifted through an overwhelming number of entries.   And now meet the winners….

 Grand Prize Winner:  

Sumerics, Florian Rappl

Sumerics is a numerical tool for plotting, performing numerical calculations and doing experiments with sensors in the new Ultrabook. Advanced high school students as well as university students will benefit from the rich numerical possibilities, such as calculating with matrices or complex numbers. The tool can be used by scientists to analyze data with in-built statistic functions or plot them. The user-interface has been designed to be as touch friendly as possible. With this app, students can easily be creative in building experiments, which involve their Ultrabooks. Finally Sumerics can not only be used to do the experiments, but also to evaluate them.

 Category Winners:  

App Submission Award Winners:  

 Congratulations to all!  Now excuse me while I go play with some new innovative apps. :-)