- Benjamin M. Brown, "Furthering the Online Marketplace
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This project will consist of an interactive online
convenience store entirely rendered in 3D. Users will be
able to explore the store, walk through it, and purchase
items as they would in a real store. The level of graphic
detail will be high. This store will be accessible by a URL
and will be viewed entirely in the user’s internet browser.
The focus of the project is to unify concepts of computer
graphics, web design, user interactivity, and database
interaction. The goal is to simulate a real store as closely
as possible, while giving the user an enjoyable and
entertaining experience, hopefully resulting in a more
efficient and stimulating online shopping experience.
- Chad Homan, "CompSCOUT "
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I am designing a network utility that will allow students
and faculty the ability to view current computer lab usage
throughout campus. The utility will also allow
administrators of the labs to be able to send messages to
computer users, and they will be able to keep track of
computer usage and be able to view statistical reports based
upon this data. The utility will consist of each lab
computer on campus running a daemonic program that will send
to a server program its current status. The server side of
the utility will keep track of all the computers and provide
a GUI to the users where they are able to view how many
computers are in use in each building, floor, and lab. The
GUI will consist of a live, updated web page which will show
visually the usage of computers and labs. This GUI will
enable students and faculty to “scout” out where computers
are available for use.
- Josh Coats, "Computer Aided Mammography Process"
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I am offering the topic: Computer Aided Detection (CAD) of
anomalies in mammography data. In my research this summer,
at the University of Virginia, I built a prototype of the
CAD program that I want to implement for my senior project.
I have titled the program C.A.M.P.: Computer-Aided
Mammography Process. I have called it this because through
my research I learned that the technology alone should not
make diagnoses, a second set of eyes is more helpful, and a
radiologist should follow some process with this program.
Having had only had 8 weeks this summer to work on the
project, there are many things I was not able to integrate
as of yet; including drawing either circles or boxes around
abnormalities, segmentation and adding, some artificial
intelligence so the program would get better at finding
abnormalities, and ignoring normal lesions, among other
things. My program is being designed as an aid to the
radiologist. It is not intended to take over the physician’s
job, it merely acts as a second set of eyes to review the
mammograms; hence the name, Computer Aided Mammography
Process (or CAMP). It is to be viewed as a process in which
the radiologist will review while the computer does its own
review, once the doctor is finished he can bring up the same
images up on the screen, or print them off, and the program
will have marked areas of concern for the doctor to look at.
- Matthew Cable, "Wireless Music: WiMus"
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My senior project will consist of two programming
applications that allow a Windows XP desktop computer to
wirelessly stream music to a Personal Digital Assistant
(PDA). The vision for this project is that a person with a PDA
will be able to store large amounts of music on their home
computer system. They will be able to take their PDA
anywhere in the world and connect back to their server
computer to access their songs. They can then plug
headphones into their PDA or plug their PDA’s audio output
jack into a home theater receivers audio input jack and
‘take’ their music anywhere they want. A server application
can be installed on any regular Windows operating system
machine and the song files will all be in .mp3 format and be
stored using a database of a similar data structure. The
server should have options to allow the user to import .mp3
music files and display them properly. The PDA will then
have a client application which will connect through a
wireless network, via IP address, back to the database of
music on the server. The client application will then
authenticate itself and display the music bank in a user
friendly manner. The client application should have a search
engine to find specific songs, artists, and album titles
easily and quickly. The user can then plug their PDA into
any home theater receiver or set of speakers or headphones
and listen to songs as the wirelessly stream to the PDA.
- Tod Karpinski, "DyKnow Remote Desktop Tools"
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This project consists of extending the DyKnow Vision product
to include Remote Desktop Tools. These tools would allow a
teacher or administrator to remotely control another
computer with DyKnow installed. It would use the
pre-existing infrastructure from DyKnow’s Demonstration
mode, which collects the video output from a machine and
transmits it to many other machines. The features included
in the Remote Control would include: mouse and keyboard
interaction, interactive chat, and remote file installation
and execution. This will allow the teacher to use DyKnow in
the class room as both an administrative tool and a
corrective tool, for example a teacher can demonstrate to a
student on their own computer what needs to be done within
the class.
- Chad Arnold, "Media Rental Services"
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My project will be directed toward a potential start-up
video outlet. It will consist of two parts. The first part
will be a desktop application that can be used in the local
store to keep track and maintain a video collection
including all relevant video information in addition to new
and potential customers. To store all of the relevant
information, it will have a database backend. This database
will also be connected to a data-driven website where
customers who wish to stay at home will be able to check the
availability of movies in addition to ordering movies
online.
This project, although created for a video outlet company,
has many advantages outside of the movie and gaming
industry. The program and concepts can be easily tailored
for similar companies and adapted for other practical
applications.
- Zach Harris, "Dynamic Online Purchase Orders"
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I am proposing to bring a purchase order/business form file
maker into an online password protected environment that
capitalizes on the information distribution, specifying and
ordering process. It will be simple to use, simple to update
and maintain, and provide a "purchase order" type
configuration structure that allows the builder to click on
options. My example for this project will contain technology
related items, but this website will be dynamic and can be
used by any company. The key is to allow a company or
company’s sales person to walk the client through all of the
options that a company has to offer, and click them off
while adding up a total price for all the options. By
"submitting" the company would receive the order via e-mail.
The purchasing format should include standard necessary
information like the builder’s info, subdivision, lot #,
wiring date needed, homeowner’s name, address, phone number
etc. In order to bring the proposal into action I plan to
use PHP and Oracle for my programming needs. I will create a
database that will hold the information of the clients and
then can be read from when creating online forms, email
purchase orders, or filling out forms.
- Alexander Iliev, "The Complexity of Clickomania"
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In this project I will explore different approaches to solve
the puzzle known variously as Clickomania and Same Game. The
rules of the game are simple. You are given a grid of size
N×M (1≤N≤50, 1≤M≤50).
Initially, each cell/tile in the grid is colored in one of K
different colors, (2≤K≤7). Neighboring cells of
the same color form groups. At each move, the player can
click on a group of at least 2 cells, which results in the
disappearance of the group. Cells that are positioned above
this region slide down to fill in the hole. In case an
entire column has been removed, all cells to the right of
the column are shifted one position to the left (see fig.).
When a region of C cells has been removed, the player
receives (C-1)² credits. In case the player manages to
remove all tiles from the grid, his score is doubled. The
goal is to maximize the score in the game.
Even though the rules are simple and the game is very
intuitive, finding the sequence of moves that maximizes your
score is an NP-complete problem. In this project I will
develop two competing algorithms that give approximate
solutions – one using a heuristic function, and the second
one – using the concepts of machine learning.
- Antonio Mercado, "Peer-2-Peer at Its Finest"
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My project will be a hybrid peer-2-peer program that will
utilize a central server to gain file information about a
user before actually connecting to the user to retrieve
files. There will be login and password capabilities for the
program, and if you are not registered by the server, you
will not be able to use the service. Once a successful login
is reached, the user will be able to request a list of users
that are on the network. The user will then be able to view
the types of files that the other users are sharing and
proceed to connect to them to retrieve the files and stay
connected creating a network with every additional
connection. The interface will be command prompt and very
user friendly. The types of files that are going to be
capable of downloading will be image, text, and music files.
Having a central server will also allow instant messenger
capabilities and being able to view different properties of
different users. It will be fun and easy to use, and for
those who are completely computer handicap I will try to
make it so user friendly that the only thing that would
prevent the user from using it is illiteracy.
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Ayokunle Olowoyeye, "Remotely Monitoring and Controlling a Web
Camera"
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For my project I will write a program that will allow a user
to monitor his/her room by controlling their web camera from
the internet. The extent of this control will allow the user
to pan left and right and if I have time up and down, so
basically along a horizontal and vertical axis. Using a
Visual Basic ASP.NET web application I will allow the user
to upload and refresh screen grabs from the camera in
real-time. I also plan on including a motion sensor that
will turn on a light every time motion is detected in the
room. I hope to set up the motion sensor so that it goes off
according to a timer such as every 30 seconds. This
information will be logged into a simple database showing
the date and time of the intrusion which can be viewed from
internet. Access control will be implemented in the form of
forced login to the website.
If time permits I hope to set up the camera so that it takes
a snapshot every time the motion sensor detects motion. Also
I plan on adding temperature sensor functionality using
Phidgets (www.Phidgets.com).
- Matt Stone, "Comparison of OpenGL programming in C++ and Java"
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This project consists of creating a 3D environment using
Java OpenGL (JOGL). The environment will consist of roughly
7-10 different 3D objects, as well as several different
lighting sources. The environment will also be navigatable,
allowing the user to "fly" through it and observe the
objects from different angles.
The project will be comparing the bindings used in JOGL
versus the OpenGL bindings used in C++. The main focus will
be analyzing the differences in the languages, which will be
compared and contrasted in order to show the strengths and
weaknesses of using each language for OpenGL programming.
This knowledge could be used by the current Graphics
professor in order to decide which language would be better
suited for teaching the class.
- Stephen Topper, "Algorithms for Searching a Proteomic Database"
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The field of bioinformatics is heavily dependent on computers. Due to
the complexity of DNA sequences, analysis of proteomic data must be
done by computers. However, even with the computerized assistance,
some analysis, especially comparison of protein sequences, can still
take a long time. This makes minimization of running time a critical
factor. This project will implement several different algorithms
designed to take a protein sequence as a query and return the top
ten most closely related sequences from a proteomic database.
These algorithms will require the creation of a simple database to
store proteomic information. In addition, a sufficient amount of
sequences will have to be added to the database in order to have
something to search. The main points of the project, however,
are the algorithms that will be implemented. Two algorithms that
will be implemented are widely used substitution matrices for
sequence comparison, PAM and BLOSUM. These matrices compare two
sequences based on identity of the sequences and chance of
mutation for each position in the sequence. A basic identity
search will also be implemented.
- Kofi Boateng, "Single-Player Checkers Using OpenGL & A.I.
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This project will be a game of checkers. The graphics
language, OpenGL, will be used to design the user interface
for the game. The game will have a 2D look though it will be
designed in 3D. Everything relating to game playing will be
programmed to appear in a 2D environment. This means the
interface the user will see will be in 2D. The main purpose
of the game is to have a human player try to beat a computer
opponent which will be equipped with Artificial Intelligence
(A.I.). The computer will use alpha-beta search to look
ahead during a game before it makes its move. The computer
will use heuristics to evaluate its position on the board
before applying the alpha-beta search. This is because
alpha-beta search for checkers space is too large to be
exhausted in the search. In this way the search will only
apply to the immediate area around the computer’s position.
- David Mack, "DePauw’s Online Auction House"
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My proposal for my senior project is to create an online
auction house for DePauw students. This site will be
designed in PHP, using an Oracle database. The PHP version
being used is PHP 4. The Oracle database will be housed on the
Jupiter server at DePauw, similar to the databases used in
the Data Driven Websites class taught by Professor Carl
Singer. Since the assignment requires an ER map, I will give
a basic outline of the goals I have for the website and then
the ER model. The underlying purpose of my idea is to create
a website that allows students to sell at auction items that
they don’t need after the semester, like books and
refrigerators. Since the website will be designed solely for
the campus, the necessity of money exchange via the mail is
eliminated, because students will be able to go to one
another's rooms in order to pick up the item. Consequently
the security of the database will be of less importance. I
will create a password entry system, with a log out based on
time, but since no credit cards are involved, nothing more
than authentication will be necessary. The future
application of this website would generate money by charging
students a nominal fee to list things, but since this
function might be provided by the university, the
proprietary aspect isn’t of utmost importance at this time.
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Morgan Bates, "A Japanese Kanji Website for Teaching Correct
Stroke Order"
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I plan to create a database driven website that would help
teach the Japanese form of writing, Kanji. Kanji is the most
difficult of the writing styles that the Japanese have. Not
only are there thousands of Kanji, but some Kanji have
upwards of 20 strokes to a single character. They also must
be drawn in a certain way, that is there is a distinct
stroke order to each one. What I plan to do is to imbed a
Java applet, or JavaScript program into the website. This
program will let the students draw the kanji on the screen,
and record the order of the strokes that they make. I plan
to have not only a practice area to the site but also a quiz
area. In the practice area they will be able to just draw
kanji on the screen and replay the images that they have
drawn if they want to. It will also store those kanji in a
section of the database so the teacher will know that they
have been practicing. In the quiz section the teacher will
be able to set up a quiz with questions about how to draw
certain kanji or if a recorded kanji that they have drawn is
correct or incorrect. The student will then take the quiz
and their answers will be placed in the data base for later
checking.
- Michael Oren and Kyle Shipley, "Interface Design for the Visually Impaired"
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The goal of this project is to create an aural video game
for the visually impaired. We plan to utilize user study
techniques to design and implement a game that relies on
spatial sound as the primary interface while also providing
a graphical interface for those with limited vision with the
goal of not giving either style of play an advantage. This
program will utilize some artificial intelligence, graphics,
and rely very heavily on human computer interaction theory
and practice. If time allows, this game will also be
expanded to include some networking features in order to
allow individuals to play against one another.
