COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Student Research Projects 2006-2007, Listed by Categories

  • Detailed listings and materials of these projects by quarters

    1. Agent Based Modeling, Evolutionary Modeling, computer simulation, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) (packages include Netlogo, MASON (Java), Swarm (Objective C), self-written)

      1. Ryan Ward: ACO: Ant Colony Optimization (Science fair Va State winner), Dynamic TSP Applet (Java 1.6 vers), (Java 1.4 vers), (Java 1.4 vers, smaller size), project description, poster, presentation.

      2. Eric Turner: Evolution Simulator, project description, poster, presentation.

      3. Olesya (Alex) Katkova: Modeling of Hall Traffic at TJ project description, poster, presentation.

      4. Lynn Jepsen: Simulation of Traffic Lights, project description, poster, presentation.

      5. Timothy (Timmy) Hunter-Kilmer: Cellular Automata, project description, poster, presentation.

      6. Richard (Lee) Rumpf: Human Cognitive Emulation, project description, poster, presentation.

      7. John Sherwood: Modeling of Economics, project description, poster

      8. David Phillips: The Unique-Bid Auction, project description, poster, presentation.

      9. Peter Riggs: TJ School Hallway Design, project description, poster, presentation.

    2. Algorithms

      1. Thomas Morgan: Algorithm Efficiency and Data Structure, project description, poster, presentation.

      2. Oleksander Ponomarenko:Map Navigation Using A* Search, project description, poster, presentation.

      3. Francisco Pareja-Lecaros: Finite State Machines and Game Design

    3. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Computational Sciences (Java, C/C++)

      1. Logan Kearsley: Hybrid AI and Machine Learning Systems, project description, poster, presentation.

      2. Sharon Ulery: French/English Translation, project description, poster, presentation.

      3. Harry Beddo: Machine Learning Applications with Genetic Algorithms, project description, poster, presentation.

      4. Cheng (Jeff) Chen, Proposal: Applications of Neural Networks, poster, presentation.

      5. Nicholas Sidawy: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Othello, project description, poster, presentation.

    4. Computer Graphics, graphical simulation packages (OpenGL, Java)

      1. Steven Oetjen: Graphical Display of Physical Models, project description, poster, presentation.

      2. Kevin Kassing: Development of a 3D Graphics Engine, project description, poster, presentation.
    5. Computer Science Education

    6. High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing (MPI, XMT-C - U MD)

      1. Michael Tao: Decentralized Process Distribution, project description, poster, presentation.

      2. Bryan Ward: Chaos Theory Using Supercomputing, project description, poster, presentation.

    7. Software design and engineering, application oriented (PHP, MySQL, Java)

      1. Steven Fuqua, Andrew Street, Barnett Trzcinski : Modular Communications Protocol (NetChat) project description, poster, presentation.

      2. Edward (Teddy) McNeill: Modular Architecture for Computer Game Design, project description, poster, presentation.

      3. Patrick Mutchler: Music Editing/Composition Software, project description, poster, presentation.

      4. Ramesh Srigiriraju: Intranet Module: Implementation of a Graphing Calculator, project description, poster (yellow version) and poster (red version), presentation.

      5. Andrew Wang: End-to-end Publication Using Bittorrent (Computer Networking), project description, poster, presentation.

    8. Computer Vision, Image Processing (Java, C/C++)

      1. Daniel Friedheim: Implementation of Steganographic Techniques, project description, poster, presentation.

      2. Kevin Liu: Image Filter Techniques, project description, poster, presentation.

    9. Computer Language Translation, Compilation

      1. Evan Silberman: Computer Language Design and Domain Specific Languages, project description, paper2 on testing, poster.
    10. Science Applications

    11. Mathematics

    12. Mentorship

      1. Lee Burton (Summer/Fall mentorship), TASC Component Architecture and Simulation Environment (TCASE) (Systems Modeling, Northrop Grumman IT),
      2. Ankur Desai (Summer/Fall), Implementation of Artificial Physics Using AIBO Robot and the Pyro Programming Environment (AI Robotics, NRL), paper, poster, and presentation for 2nd quarter.
      3. David Kohlbrenner (Fall Mentorship - IT.com), Prelim Proposal1: , paper, poster, and presentation for 2nd quarter.
      4. Sarah Laskey (Summer/Fall), Assessing Terrorism Threat Rankings to Specific Sites (Risk Analysis, Digital Sandbox)
      5. Shiqian (Kevin) Liu (Fall Mentorship - Astute Tech), Prelim Proposal1:
      6. Myles Maxfield (Summer/Fall), Integrated Spell Checker and Search Engine (Internet AI, IT.com), poster (two slides) for 2nd quarter.
      7. Jonathan Reed (Summer/Fall), Use of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Algorithm and Applications With An Intranet Search Program (Internet Datamining and AI search, IT.com), poster (2 slides) for 2nd quarter.
      8. Karl Shurter (Fall - Mentorship - GMU Experimental Economics), Prelim Proposal1: paper, poster, and presentation, project description for 2nd quarter.
      9. Christopher Sweeney (Fall - Mentorship - Mitre Tech), Prelim Proposal1: , paper, poster, and presentation for 2nd quarter.
      10. Sean Tai (Summer/Fall), Designing a View Management System for Augmented Reality (Virtual Reality Systems, NRL)
      11. Brian Wu,Traffic Management, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC), Highway Driving Simulator, project description.