Syllabus

CS Research overview (ppt slides)

What is Research? and examples of research. View interests.tex and interests.pdf. Complete this with areas of your own interest. Use LaTeX

Project portfolio:

1. Keeping records of your work and documenting your work - Mead notebook
   • Daily/weekly logs, sample weekly update form
   • Time lines for each quarter
   • Tests and analysis of your project
     Sample forms:
     • Exterior/Interior/Adaptability points of view; Random vs specifically designed tests
     • Example test types: Dynamic testing analysis
   • Iteration reports of your progress

2. Project proposal

3. Linux environment

4. Project research, periodic updates of new references - example Reference report

5. Project presentation (poster) - Digital poster in pdf, and project presentation (oral report and slides) - Slide presentation

6. Project research paper - Paper in LaTeX and pdf
   help on good technical writing (from Elements of Technical Writing by Blake and Bly)
   Submit versions of your paper to turnitin.com
   • Title, your name
   • Abstract
   • Introduction/Background
   • Development (what you have done and are doing, tests, analysis)
   • Results, Conclusions (preliminary)
   • Visuals - charts, screenshots, graphs, UML diagrams
   • LaTeX and pdf

7. Mentorship portfolio

Example projects:

Research categories - AI/Machine Learning (can a program learn?), Opensource development and Software engineering (project development within a community of programmers), Computer Graphics (3D virtual simulation of the physics of reality), Multiagent modeling (numerous agents simulating the evolution of a complex system), Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics (can a program understand and organize data from language?), Interperter and Compiler Design (programs to understand and implement instructions from other computer languages), Database Design (accumulating data for knowledge), Distributed and Grid Computing (large networks of computers working together), Parallel programming and High Performance computing (multiple processors working together), Computer Vision (can a program learn to see?), Swarmbots (can a group of robots coordinate and work together?)

1. 2005-2006
   • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (can a program learn?)
     • Sablescape, an artificial intelligence for a 3D Computer graphics game
     • Genetic Algorithms in Machine Learning, Othello. Run with python Othello_Mar8.py from ~chayes
   • Opensource, Software Engineering, Web Applications Development, Object oriented programming (community development, large scale development)
     • Iodine: Development of an Object-Oriented Module-based Extensible Student Intranet Web Application in PHP5, iodine log in screen, Paper (pdf)
     • Sablescape, an artificial intelligence for a 3D Computer graphics game
     • Engineering and Implementation of an Interactive Simulation Through Object Orientation (paper)
   • High performance computing (multiple processors working together)
     • Parallel programming applications - Numerical integration, sorting
     • Fractal generation in parallel
   • Distributed and Grid computing (a network of computers working together)
     • Poster (pdf) Creation of software and grid in a multiple operating systems distributed computing environment.
   • 3D Computer Graphics (realistic physical modeling/simulation)
     • Development of a Physics Engine (pdf)
       to run: javac -classpath lwjgl-linux-0.99/jar/lwjgl.jar:lwjgl-linux-0.99/jar/lwjgl_util.jar:lwjgl-linux-0.99/jar/lwjgl_test.jar:. Feb_1_RestProto.java
     • Physical Simulation of collisions of particles
     • 3D environment realism (pdf)
     • Computer graphics realism techniques (processing), paper (pdf)
     • Modeling a Planetary System (applet from processing) (ZOOM with +/-), arrows to shift) Paper (ps)
   • Computer Vision (a program learning to see)
     • Edge detection techniques, sample images
     • sample image processing techniques - brightening, contrast, flipping and rotating - Start here
   • Computer Music (can a program process sound, compose music?)
     • Genetic Algorithms for Music Composition
     • The development of a Transient-based Audio Timestretching algorithm
   • Modeling/MultiAgent modeling (multiple agents simulating the evolution of a complex system)
     • Multiagent Modeling of Societal Development and Cultural Evolution (pdf), sample Sugarscape model, Schelling neighborhood (3 populations)
     • Virus spread
     • Simulation of the formation of Traffic Jams on Highways
     • Modeling of Economic Systems
     • ACO - Ant Colony Optimization
     • Ecological Modeling cd Mar20 java -classpath ../repast.jar:../colt.jar:../plot.jar:../trove.jar:. Model
       also download Rabbit model by A. Martin, in RePast, rabbit.jar, repast.jar, colt.jar, plot.jar, trove.jar
     • Brownian motion and Vander Waals forces, NP-complete problems
   • Natural language processing and Computational Linguistics (can a program read, understand, and accumulate data through human language)
     • Creation of an Interactive Russian-English Translation Program (ps)
   • Language Interpreters and Compilers (programs that understand and interpret other computer languages)
     • Sigma Lisp, Interpreter for Lisp-like language (pdf paper), Implicit function test sample, Sample source
   • Database design (accumulating data for knowledge)
     • Multidimensional database for emergency response, Paper

   • Mentorship (project development with a professional team)
     • Anser Anser, Programming Logic, Knowledge Representation
     • GMU School of Computational Sciences, Computational Model of Energetic Particle Fluxes in the Magnetosphere, poster (ppt)
     • Defence Threat Reduction Agency Optimizing the Placement of Biological and Chemical Weapon Sensors (poster), paper
     • NRL Multiphysics Lab: 2D-Visual Programming Environment for Multiphysics Mechatronic Systems Simulation, poster (pdf)
     • Nortrup Grumman, Effects of QoS priority levels and TCP flow control Variants on Data Transfer Rate, Grid Computing
     • MitreTek, Biometrics Image Processing
     • VTC, Web Interface for the Matrix Mapping Tool
     • NRL, Extract high resolution building models in three dimensions from LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data.
     • World Bank, An Implementation of an Efficient User Interface for the Generation of Statistical Marketing Media
     • NRL, A Virtual Robot Receptionist
     • NRL, Battlefield simulation exercises with WarCraft game and AI
     • FCPS-DIT, Online Service Based Phone Directory
     • ENSCO - Radar Applications
     • Aero Astro, Determination of Optimized Duty Cycles for the STPSat-1 Mission (satellite mission)

2. Example projects from 2004-2005

3. Intel Talent Search