58th Annual STS (1998–1999)
Finalists
Binh Dao Vo

Binh Dao Vo, 17, of Berkeley Heights, developed an advanced checkpointing program—a program that saves certain running states of a process so it can be restored later—for his computer science entry in the Intel Science Talent Search. This new utility, called Libwinckp-rt, mitigates the effects of power outages and disk crashes on long-running Windows NT^â programs. With it, an interrupted process can be restored to its pre-interrupted state for continued execution. Since it needs no special code insertion or start-up procedure, Libwinckp-rt achieves run-time transparency, and Binh believes it is the first checkpointing program to do so. He continues to work on further refinements at the Lucent Bell Laboratories, where he developed his program during an internship last summer. Also in 1998, Binh was a prizewinner in the USA Mathematical Talent Search and a Rensselaer Medalist for Science and Mathematics. At Governor Livingston High School, he plays saxophone in the wind ensemble and participates in tennis and track. The son of Dr. Klem-Phong Vo and Nguyen Ky Vo, he plans to study computer science at MIT.

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