The third annual graph-drawing contest was held last week at Graph Drawing 96
in Berkeley, California.  The contest judges were Peter Eades (Univ. of Newcastle,
Australia), Joe Marks (MERL - A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA),
Takao Nishizeki (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Stephen North (AT&T Research, USA),
Yanni Tollis (Univ. of Texas, USA), and Sue Whitesides (McGill Univ., Canada).

The results are:

GRAPH A
Winner:			None

Honorable Mention*:	Gilles Paris
			IREQ Research Institute of Hydro-Quebec
			Canada

			Falk Schreiber & Carsten Friedrich
			Univ. of Passau
			Germany


GRAPH B
Winner:			Ulrich Foessmeier & Michael Kaufmann
			Univ. of Tubingen
			Germany

Honorable Mention:	Francois Bertault
			CRIN/INRIA Lorraine
			France

			Vladimir Batagelj & Andrej Mrvar
			Univ. of Ljubljana
			Slovenia

GRAPH C:
Winner:			Vladimir Batagelj & Andrej Mrvar
			Univ. of Ljubljana
			Slovenia

Honorable Mention:	Falk Schreiber & Carsten Friedrich
			Univ. of Passau
			Germany

			Gunter Rote
			Technical University of Graz
			Austria

			Francois Bertault
			CRIN/INRIA Lorraine
			France

GRAPH D
Winner:			Falk Schreiber & Carsten Friedrich
			Univ. of Passau
			Germany

Honorable Mention:	Thomas Kamps, Joerg Kleinz, and Klaus Reichenberger
			GMD Darmstadt
			Germany


Each winning entry will be awarded $200, and each honorable mention $50.

Winning and honorable-mention drawings for Graphs B, C, and D will be
included in the contest report, which will appear in the symposium
proceedings.  (Because Graph A proved so difficult to draw, none of
its drawings will be reported, and the graph may be used again next
year.)

Thank you all for participating.  There will be another contest next
year.  Please check out the GD 97 Web page for details when it becomes
available.

-- Joe Marks