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Student's software design wins award

University of Toronto student Vincent Cheung has been named 2010 Student Entrepreneur Ontario Champion by Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE), for founding Shape Collage Inc "a software program that arranges hundreds of photos into custom shapes in seconds". According to the Toronto Star the software developed by Cheung's company has already been downloaded more than one million times since its launch last March.

"Cheung was recently named 2010 Student Entrepreneur Ontario Champion by Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE), a national charitable organization. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce sponsors the national competition.The provincial competition is in March with nationals scheduled for May. The winner will represent Canada at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards in November. Canada took top prize last year."

"ACE spokeswoman Jaime Szegvary said the award was created to support students with a unique business plan as well as provide them with access to a network of individuals with similar interests."A lot of these students, they really don't think of it as something they could be doing full time. It gives them the extra little push," she said."

"Cheung, a PhD candidate in computer engineering at the University of Toronto, came up with the concept late 2007. "I wanted to share my photos with my friends and family and didn't want to subject them to flipping through hundreds of images," he said."

"The solution was to design an algorithm that automatically ensures images are laid out in a visually pleasing fashion and arranged in a variety of shapes; examples include hearts and corporate logos. The program is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux."

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original source Toronto Star

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