COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Student Research Project Good Examples 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,

    2. Algorithms

      1. Kelly Ran: Calculating Fractal Dimension from Vector Images (Science Fair Winner), project description, poster (science fair), 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. Tianhui (Tiffany) Cai: Using Neural Networks for Breaking a Visual CAPTHCA, project description, poster, presentation.

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

      1. Jacob Welsh: Interactive 3D Geometry in 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)

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

    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,

    9. Computer Language Translation, Compilation

      1. Joshua Cranmer: Java Decompiler, 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