COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Student Research Project Good Examples 2007-2008, Listed by Categories
Detailed listings and materials of these projects by quarters
- 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)
- Kelley Hecker:
Evolving Motor Techniques for Artificial Life,
project description,
poster (better),
poster,
presentation,
youtube examples,
SwarmEvolve example.
- Jordan Albright:
Exploring Wealth Distribution through Sugarscape,
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Kenneth Lee:
Particle Swarm Optimization and Social Interaction Between Agents,
poster,
presentation.
- Patrick Coleman:
Programming a New Sugarscape,
two column vers.,
poster,
presentation.
- Natasha Wallage:
Simulating Evolution,
two column vers.,
poster,
presentation,
- Algorithms
- Kelly Ran:
Calculating Fractal Dimension from Vector Images (Science Fair Winner),
project description,
poster (science fair),
poster,
presentation.
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Computational Sciences (Java, C/C++)
- Ryan Honig:
Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize the Traveling Salesman Problem,
poster,
presentation.
- Felix Zhang:
Development of a German-English Translator
(Computational Linguistics),
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Josiah Boning:
Machine Learning for Musical Analysis and Creation,
tech web page,
poster,
presentation.
- Tianhui (Tiffany) Cai:
Using Neural Networks for Breaking a Visual CAPTHCA,
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Computer Graphics, graphical simulation packages (OpenGL, Java)
- Jacob Welsh:
Interactive 3D Geometry in OpenGL,
poster,
presentation,
- Computer Science Education
- Gregory Gates:
Elementary Education in a Technology Age,
project description,
poster,
presentation,
and
"Kitty Plays Football" script,
sample screenshot.
Greg's Scratch website.
- High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing (MPI, XMT-C - U MD)
- Software design and engineering, application oriented (PHP, MySQL, Java)
- Computer Vision, Image Processing (Java, C/C++)
- Byron Hood:
Sign Language Recognition,
poster,
presentation.
- Nathan Harmata:
Development of a Generic Font Optical Character Recognition (OCR),
project description,
poster
(vers. 2),
presentation.
- Peter Chapman:
Image Sharpening - Unblurring/Deblurring,
two column vers.,
poster,
poster vers. with less color (for printing),
presentation.
- Andrew Stebbins:
Advanced Automobile Recognition Through the Use of Image Processing Techniques,
poster,
presentation,
- Computer Language Translation, Compilation
- Joshua Cranmer:
Java Decompiler,
poster,
presentation,
- Science Applications
- Madhav Nandipati:
Analysis of Spectro-temporal Receptive Fields in an Auditory Neural Network , (Science Fair winner)
two column vers.,
poster1,
poster2,
presentation.
- Mathematics
- 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,
- Evan Warner:
Conformal Mapping Using the Schwarz-Christoffel Transform (Science fair winner),
project description.
paper,
poster (from science fair),
poster,
presentation,
- Mentorship