COMPUTER SYSTEMS SENIOR RESEARCH AREAS

AI 1 Topics: Graphs and Search Techniques, Games and Learning, Genetic Algorithms and learning
- Language: Python Topics:
- Graphs and Optimal Search
  - Introduction to Python
  - Word Ladders
- Heuristics
  - Romania and US Waterways
  - Sliding Tile
  - Optimal search techniques, best first, A*
  - Stochastic Search and Genetic Algorithms
- Eight Queens
  - Games, Minimax, Pruning
  - Multiplayer GHOST (word game)
  - Reversi, aka Othello
  - Tic-Tac-Toe
AI 2 Topics: Image processing and computer vision, algorithms for learning using constraints, agent based modeling and learning, neural networks and learning
- Image Processing and Machine Vision
  - Smoothing
  - Edge detection
  - Circle identification
- Constraint Solvers
  - Map Coloring
  - Sudoku
- Agent Based Modeling
  - Swarm, Cooperation, Competition, Emergence
  - Segregation, Schelling neighborhoods
- Machine Learning
  - Neural Networks
Parallel Computing 1, Language: C, Topics: Compression Techniques, Numerical simulation, Parallization methods, Gridding strategies
- Huffman Compression
  - Introduction to C
  - Information Theory
- MPI and Embarrassingly Parallel Problems
  - Projectile Motion with Air Resistence
- Gridding Strategies
  - 2D OpenGL and Fractal Generation
  - Diffusion Limited Aggregation
  - Conway's Game of Life
  - The Heat equation
Parallel Programming 2, Language: C, Topics: Cellular Automata and parallelization, Threads and sockets, 3D Graphics, Parallel platforms
- Coupled Systems
  - Matrix Operations and Solvers
  - Orbital Mechanics, N-Body Problem
- Underlying Tools
  - threads
  - sockets
- Discrete Cosine Transform
  - JPEG
- 3D Graphics
  - OpenGL and the Camera Analogy
  - Ray Tracing
- GPGPU
  - Nvidia's CUDA
- XMT-C
  - Parallel Algorithm Thinking