Computer Systems Research/Development
Report/Plan for the 3rd Quarter 2005

1. Current state of your project (from the end of 2nd quarter)
   • For this you can provide a link to the DATED pdf of your poster and paper

2. Research Area(s):
   • Provide details of the specific area(s) and item(s) of research you are studying
   • This should be at least 1/2 page - 1 page.
   • Examples:
     • Crawling on the World Wide Web (Va Tech) - Investigation into crawling, searching, data mining the WWW
     • Machines learning how to play games
     • Machine Learning and Tic-Tac-Toe
     • Machine Learning Techniques - example assignments
     • Advanced Scientific Computing Reports:
       - Plasma simulation code on supercomputers at DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab.,
       - Federal Plan for High-End Computing
       - Grand Challenges: Science, Engineering, and Societal Advances Requiring Networking and Information Technology Research
       - Science-Based Case for Large-Scale Simulation,
       - Network Provisioning and Protocols for DOE Large-Science Applications.
       - Theory and Modeling in Nanoscience
       - Genomes to Life: Biological Solutions for Energy Challenges.
       - High-Performance Networks for High-Impact Science.
       - Getting Up to Speed - The Future of Supercomputing
     • Modeling Large Scale Evacuations
     • Climate Models
     • Traffic Modeling
     • Handbook of Applied Crytography
   • At this point in the year you need to WRITE about an area of research. Also Try to incorporate
     elements of what you're writing into your project's program.

3. Design:
   • Design plan for your coding application for this iteration of your project
   • Time line use "planner"
   • Pseudo-code, "high level" design, flowchart(s)
   • Examples:
     • Red-Black Trees incorporated into Anthony Kim's project
     • Part of Speech Tagging from Robert Staubs
     • Incoporating BLAST package for algorithmic genetic comparison techniques
       also - High Performance computing applications in Genome research
     • SWARM based Traffic simulation, Madeleine Pitsch
     • Technical Conspectus from Tom Mildorf
     • Historical Linguistics and Language Change, Dan Wright's project on Computational Linguistics

4. Code:
   • Current code you have. What do you intend to do with this code for 3rd quarter?
   • Be as specific and detailed as possible.
   • Testing:
     • What tests have you done? What kinds of tests will you do for 3rd quarter?
     • What kind of data are you interested in?
     • How will this relate to your research interest(s)?
     • What kinds of modifications might you expect?
   • Examples:
     • Matt Fifer sample output, genetic evolution simulation
     • Screenshot, John Fitzsimmons, Graphical simulations
     • Paintball Frenzy screenshots, Chris Goss
     • Code archives - Keith Diggs - Ciphers
     • Screenshot - Madeleine Pitsch, traffic simulation model
     • Edge detection screenshot - Michael Feinberg, image processing
     • Screenshot - Scott Hyndman traffic modeling of an intersection
     • Screenshots - Blake Bredehoft robot world, modeling, evolutionary programming
     • Code archives - Matt Thompson genetic algorithms and music composition
     • Slide 1, Carrie Russell, modeling atmospheric change
     • Screenshots - Justin Winkler - space systems modeling

5. Written work for your paper (due next iteration)
   • Remember that you'll be expanding your research paper to 15-20 pages for 3rd quarter.