The Mark Fulk award is presented annually for the best paper contributed by a student.  
<br>This year's award was won by 

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<dd><li> Ulrike von Luxburg for the paper 
<dd>
<a href="allAbstracts.html#6">
``Distance-Based Classification with Lipschitz
Functions'' 
</a>
<br>
<dd>(co-authored with Olivier Bousquet). 
</li></dd>

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Owing to generous support from the Journal of 
Machine Learning, we were able to award
two second prizes for the best student paper. 
They went to 

<br> <br>
<dd><li>Gilles Stoltz for the paper
<dd> <a href="allAbstracts.html#32">
"Internal Regret in On-line Portfolio Selection" 
</a>
<dd>(co-authored with Gabor Lugosi) 
</li>

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<dd><li> and Petra Philips for the paper
<dd> <a href="allAbstracts.html#21">
"Random Subclass Bounds"
</a>
<dd>(co-authored with Shahar Mendelson)
</li>