COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Fall/Spring 2006 - 2007
Research Areas for your Projects
- Identify a research area that relates to your project.
- Find an interesting project in your research area of interest:
Example computer science research areas (no particular order to these):
- University CS department examples
- CS research papers examples
- Computer Graphics, 3D realism
- Artificial Intelligence: Computer Music, Data Mining, Machine Learning,
Robotics applications, Evolutionary programming
- Computer Vision
- Systems and Languages: Computer Architecture, Databases, Distributed Systems,
Formal Methods and Software engineering, Networking, Operating Systems, Parallel Systems, Programming Languages
- Theory: Algorithms, Complexity Theory, Semantics
- Computational Biology: Computational Molecular Biology, computational paleontology
- Human-Computer Interaction: Cognitive Modeling
- Educational Technologies: Object oriented techniques, TJForge Iodine (student Intranet) and TJForge development site
- Language Technologies: Computer Aided Language Learning, , Computational Linguistics,
Informational Retrieval,Machine Translation, Speech
- High Performance computing
- Software engineering
- Agent Based modeling, social science modeling (see MASON toolkit)
- Open Source/Collaborative projects such as found on SourceForge
- Applications Software such as Matlab or BLAST
(BLAST is used in Biotech: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
- Multi-agent Modeling using MASON, Netlogo, Swarm, Repast, or similar software; Example current project with GMU/Smithsonian -
Inner Asia BC civilization modeling (will use MASON)
- Which research area(s) is a match for the project(s) you are interested in?
- Within the above research area(s), locate a project(s) that is similar to your interest.
- Title of the project(s):
- Abstract of this project (describe in several sentences the focus and goal of the project(s)).
- What is the analysis being done, how is the project analyzed for success?
- What are the results and conclusions? What are areas for continued research? (if this can be determined)
- Link to this project(s) and to the paper (if a link exists to the paper):
- What software (computer languages) was used in this project you've found (if this information is available.
- What software (computer language(s)) do you expect to use in your own project.