COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Student Research Projects 2007-2008, 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. Kelley Hecker: Evolving Motor Techniques for Artificial Life, project description, poster (better), poster, presentation, youtube examples, SwarmEvolve example.

      2. Jordan Albright: Exploring Wealth Distribution through Sugarscape, project description, poster, presentation.

      3. Kenneth Lee: Particle Swarm Optimization and Social Interaction Between Agents, poster, presentation.

      4. Patrick Coleman: Programming a New Sugarscape, two column vers., poster, presentation.

      5. Natasha Wallage: Simulating Evolution, two column vers., poster, presentation,

      6. Jinyu Liu: JLSim:Visual Traffic Simulation with Extensive User Interface, poster, presentation.

      7. Keith Ainsworth: AI with Particle Swarm Optimization, poster, presentation.

      8. Phillip Graves: Analysis of Underlying Causes and Mechanics of Civil Disorder, poster, presentation,

      9. Matt Lee: Prisoner's Dilemma with N Participants and Optional Cooperation, project description, poster, presentation.

      10. Andrew Menke: A New Sugarscape Model, poster, presentation,

      11. Liban Mohamed: Logic Based Computation using Conway's Game of Life, project description, poster, presentation,

      12. Nicholas Loffredo: Agent Based Simulation, Negotiation, and Strategy Optimization of Monopoly, poster, presentation.

      13. Nicholas Brown: Study on the Outputs and Design of an Abstract Evolution Simulator, poster, presentation.

      14. Joshua Choi: A Dynamic Model of Human Populations, poster, presentation.

      15. Sam Eberspacher: Airport and Air Traffic Modeling and Simulation, poster, presentation,

      16. Alex McGuigan: Examining Leadership Using Agent Based Modeling, poster, presentation.

      17. Matt Wade: Simulation of the Spread of a Virus Using Agent Based Modeling poster, presentation,

    2. Algorithms

      1. Kelly Ran: Calculating Fractal Dimension from Vector Images (Science Fair Winner), project description, poster (science fair), poster, presentation.

      2. Haitao Mao: Pathfinding Algorithms in Mutating Graphs, poster, presentation,

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

      1. Ryan Honig: Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize the Traveling Salesman Problem, poster, presentation.

      2. Felix Zhang: Development of a German-English Translator (Computational Linguistics), project description, poster, presentation.

      3. Josiah Boning: Machine Learning for Musical Analysis and Creation, tech web page, poster, presentation.

      4. Jack Breese: Implementation of a Library for Artificial Neural Networks in C, poster, presentation,

      5. Tianhui (Tiffany) Cai: Using Neural Networks for Breaking a Visual CAPTHCA, project description, poster, presentation.

      6. Aaron Dufour: Exploration of Genetic Algorithms Through the Iterative Prisoner's Dilemma, project description, poster, presentation.

      7. Karl Leswing: Genetic Algorithms to find Near Optimal Solutions to the Traveling Salesman Problem, poster, presentation.

      8. Michael Yura: Reinforcement Learning in Connect 4, poster, presentation.

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

      1. Ben Parr: Accurate 3D Modeling of User Inputted Molecules Using a Hill-Climbing Algorithm, poster, presentation.

      2. Brett Jones: First Person Pac Man 3D Graphics, poster, presentation,

      3. Thomas Smilack: An Interactive, User-driven Physics Simulator, project description, poster, presentation.

      4. Jacob Welsh: Interactive 3D Geometry in OpenGL, poster, presentation,

      5. Justin Warfield: Use of Various Techniques Implementing Procedural Generation in Video Game Design, poster, presentation.

      6. Richard Hooper: Three Dimensional Collision Detection for N Solids Using OpenGL, poster, presentation.

    5. Computer Science Education

      1. Gregory Gates: Elementary Education in a Technology Age, project description, poster, presentation, and "Kitty Plays Football" script, sample screenshot. Greg's Scratch website.

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

      1. Michael Chen: Optimizing Parallel Programming with MPI, poster, presentation,

      2. Luis Valentin: XMT-C and the Ear Decomposition Algorithm, poster, presentation,

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

      1. Martin Elthon: TJHSST Website Redesign, poster, presentation.

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

      1. Byron Hood: Sign Language Recognition, poster, presentation.

      2. Nathan Harmata: Development of a Generic Font Optical Character Recognition (OCR), project description, poster (vers. 2), presentation.

      3. Peter Chapman: Image Sharpening - Unblurring/Deblurring, two column vers., poster, poster vers. with less color (for printing), presentation.

      4. Andrew Stebbins: Advanced Automobile Recognition Through the Use of Image Processing Techniques, poster, presentation,

      5. Asa Kusuma: Analysis of Runner Biomechanics through Image Processing, project description, poster, presentation.

      6. Patrick Elliot Proposal: Dynamic Image Resizing, poster, presentation.

    9. Computer Language Translation, Compilation

      1. Joshua Cranmer: Java Decompiler, poster, presentation,

      2. James McAtamney: C to Java Language Translation, poster, presentation,

    10. Science Applications

      1. Madhav Nandipati: Analysis of Spectro-temporal Receptive Fields in an Auditory Neural Network , (Science Fair winner) two column vers., poster1, poster2, presentation.

    11. Mathematics

      1. Jacob Steinhardt: Cayley graphs formed by conjugate generating sets of S_n (Science fair winner) and Applications of Fourier transforms and other algebraic techniques to graph products (2nd semester) (Mathematical Algorithms). 4th quarter: paper, paper, paper, presentation,

      2. Evan Warner: Conformal Mapping Using the Schwarz-Christoffel Transform (Science fair winner), project description. paper, poster (from science fair), poster, presentation,

    12. Mentorship

      1. Edward Rice Proposal: SyntenyChecker: quality control from syntenic regions at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (Computational Bioinformatics). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

      2. Eric Shi Proposal: Code Refactoring with Legacy Code in Flight Model Software (Computer graphics and simulation). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.