CSCE487 Computer Science Professional Development Spring 2009
Possible Projects
Microsoft Imagine Cup (Egypt 2009)!!
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Enhancing Dancing Robots
- Extending a previous Computer Engineering senior design project; focusing on
"song" parsing, analysis, and interpretation; probably using machine learning
algorithms; minimal hardware knowledge requirement; potential partnership with the
Department of Music Education
Logging GAMES
- Enhancing the comprehensive Graduate Application and Management Systems
(GAMES) such that it supports better browsing, retrieval, and decision making;
modeling users (both applicants and faculty); probably using data mining and pattern
recognition algorithms
Integrating Graduate SIS and OAR
- Developing an integrated framework for graduate student information systems
(GSIS) and undergraduate advising system called Online Advising Representative (OAR);
focusing on adaptive recommender systems; supporting students' "networking"; helping
department manage graduate student portfolios and advise students; probably using
intelligent agent and multiagent systems algorithms
Visualizing POND
- Developing a 4D Visualization GUI for browsing, retrieving, and researching
documents written in specific topics; creating "quality" indicators for documents;
matching and retrieving documents of correct "quality" and "topics"; using information
retrieval algorithms and advanced visualization techniques; partnership with
Departments of English and History
Automating Online Interviews
- Developing an interview system that is able to provide prompts to help
subjects recall answers more accurately; focusing on modeling online sessions to
determine when and how to provide the most effective prompts; probably using
case-based reasoning (and learning) and knowledge-based systems; potential
partnership with the Department of Psychology and Department of Sociology
Graphic Mapping of VR Imagery
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Virtual panoramic images represent full 360 degree views of buildings, great
places and spaces. Special photography is used to capture the spherical
imagery which is then viewable through panoram tools. Of particular
interest is to be able to graphically map and represent a viewers behaviour
to determine which parts of the image they spend the most time looking at.
Spherical images of virtual design projects can be created through
Autodesk's 3d Studio max and be provided for use in this project. Partnership
with the College of Architecture.
- Panorama Tools was/is
open source, and is the machine that crunches the numbers to create the
spherical image
- PTGUI is a graphical user
interface to make it similiar to create the images, not opensource
Digital Humanities Projects
Data Mining Civil War Records
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"We have an extraodrinarily large amount of SPSS-formatted data from the
Center for Population Economics (http://www.cpe.uchicago.edu/). These are
records of Civil War-era veterans, containing service, medical, economic,
racial, and other information. We'd love to have a way of making this data
more useful in various ways--filtering out what is, for our purposes,
noise; using some kind of data-mining technique to locate (and maybe
convert) records pertinent to data that we have elsewhere in other formats.
Or maybe what we need is some kind of tool/interface that makes the data
easier to work with or deliver to users." -- potential for data mining and
machine learning algorithms.
Visualizing Geospatial Data
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"We also have been creating quite a bit of data, some of it in ArcGIS and
some of it in a MySQL database where we are putting information from various
sources. Esri, the GIS software company, has a bunch of tools for
delivering the GIS data, and we have a GIS server, but we don't have a way
to deliver the two sets of data together. For example, the Esri software
can show maps with different layers turned on or off, but we also need to
let users put the maps in motion to show change over time. That time
information would need to come from the MySQL database. We need some CS
genius to connect the database info with the GIS info and get it all to
display in a pleasing, interesting and innovative way." -- potential for
database management and visualization algorithms.
Supporting Literature Analysis
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"Another example of rich XML encoding that is presently not doing anyone any
good has to do with a reasonably elaborate system we've developed for linking
different versions of a work of literature (e.g., a first draft, a later
draft, a first edition, and a second edition all of the same poem). A way to
automate the locating and bringing together of related versions is
one thing we lack. Maybe even more challenging, we'd like a widget that
lets us compare related objects in a way to see/absorb/understand even,
say, a half dozen versions--to grasp at a glance what's changed and what's
not." -- potential for natural language processing and knowledge-based systems
development.
Encoding Historical Images
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"We also have a lot of image data--things like manuscripts that
need to go through the process of being transcribed, encoded, edited and
incorporated into the live site. Developing some kind of tool to aid us in
this process would be really beneficial not just to the Whitman Archive,
but to other projects interested in this kind of digital work. Perhaps an
interface that would enable encoders to drag and drop tag sets around certain
manuscript elements and that would also enable the manuscript image
to later interact with the underlying encoding?" -- potential for image
processing, machine learning, and decision support algorithms.
