COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH (3rd QUARTER)

PROJECT TITLE

AUTHOR NAME

Version Date, 2004-2005

3rd Quarter - What do you need?

  • Research papers 2004-2005
  • Help with LaTeX
  • Intel Science Talent Search, Entry book + examples
  • Siemens Westinghouse Competition, resources, past winners

  • Final 3rd quarter grade consists of:
    1. Oral Presentation - Powerpoint slides!
    2. Research Paper - Completed Draft of your paper.
      (At this point you may not have completed Results/Conclusions)
      • Sample papers - yours should have equivalent content and detail.
        • Distributed Storage
          See: Abstract, Introduction, Scope, Background, Existing Solutions, Theory, Procedure/Workplan (unfinished here), References
        • Design of an Intelligent Traffic Light System
          See: Abstract, Introduction, Neural Networks Introduction, Neural Networ Details, Perceptron Learning, Unsupervised Learning and Genetic Algorithms, Java classes used, Program Design, Resources
        • Software Defined Radio
          See: Title Page and Abstract, Introduction, Sampling Theory, Note: Charts and Graphs, Modulation Theory, Quadrature Sampling, Demodulating AM in Software, Setting up the sytem for his project, Data capture, Demodulation
        • 3D Utopia
          See: Abstract, Background - Square Array Method, Vertex Array Method, Mathematics of Terrain Generation, Lighting
        • High Performance Computing with the Cray SV1
          See: Introduction, Uses, Types, Grid Computing, Amdahl's Law, Data Parallelism, Task Parallelism, Threading, Multi-level programming
        • Modeling of Physical Systems
          See: Introduction, Background, Theory, Leapfrog, Cell Model Computation, Dipole Interactions in Gaseous Particles, Screenshots
      • What kinds of tests have you been running?
      • How are you analyzing these tests?
      • How are you assessing your progress?
      • What research have you been doing?
      • What new references have you added to your bibliography?
    3. A working version: Your project's program.
      • Your project's system/program should have a working version by now.
      • Give a detailed description of how your system/program is currently working.
      • How much further can you take this in 4th quarter? What will the final version be?
    4. Daily/Weekly logs, detailed for 3rd quarter