(- See Christo Landry's version of posting links to this rubric)

500 points:

1. Code, Analysis, and Iteration Report(s) - 10+ pages of commented code (100 pts), Analysis
   • Design/Pseudocode/Description of Algorithms 25
   • Code and Testing 75

2. Project Poster (100 pts)
   • Title + your name, Abstract 25
   • Research area/Justification, Background 25
   • Details of your implementation, expected results 25
   • Visuals: Graph(s) of data analysis, Screenshot(s), etc 25

3. PDF version of your poster (50 pts)
   Use "dvipdf" on your compiled latex file (file.tex compiles to file.dvi)
   See "Two-column" Latex sample, (PDF)
   "One-column" Latex sample, (PDF)

4. Research Paper - 10 pages, LaTeX, html, pdf/ps (100)
   • Title and Abstract 25
   • Introduction and Background 25
   • Development sections + research and algorithms 25
   • References 25

5. Oral report/project presentation 1 (50)
   • Powerpoint slides can be used (you can use OpenOffice)
   • Screenshots/sample runs of your program
   • Overview of research you're doing

6. Identify a specific research area(s) within computer science (50 pts)
   • Computer vision, image processing, signal processing, fft's,
     software for robotics
   • AI: Machine learning, neural networks, intelligent agents,
     distributed modeling with agents, artificial life, natural language
     processing, creativity, computer composition, uncertainty and belief
     networks, min-max trees/alpha-beta pruning, search techniques, fuzzy logic
   • (More AI), evolutionary computation/artificial life, genetic
     algorithms, art and music composition, parallel distributed processing
     with agents, cellular automata
   • Data mining
   • Programming languages and theory, compiler design
   • HCI: Human computer interaction and Graphical User Interfaces
   • Computer graphics and modeling (many specific topics in this area),
     POV_Ray, ray tracing, illuminination and shading, lighting models,
     anti-aliasing, texture mapping, animation techniques
   • Algorithms and data structures, graph algorithms, data compression, encryption
   • Supercomputing, high performance computing, distributed and parallel computing,
     clusters vs supercomputers
   • Computer communications and networking, the Internet, data communications
     security
   • Systems, Compiler design, lexical analysis, lex and yacc
   • Database design, structured query language
   • Software engineering, project development models, design patterns,
     software reuse, UML (Unified Modeling Language), software testing
   • Computers and music, MIDI, STK C++ signal processing toolkit sound editor, algorithmic composition/genetic composition:
   • Visual arts, computer art, POV-Ray, Renderman and BMRT, fractal art

7. Logs - Detailed Weekly goals, daily logs (50)

8. EXTRA: Report on Computer Science Research (25)
   • Choose 1 or 2 Technical/Research Papers
   • Write 500 words describing the research, results, problems investigated, etc.