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CS 7001: Introduction to Graduate Studies
Fall 2001
Mini Projects 
Draft---Subject to Change


General Information regarding Fall 2001 Projects

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Mini Projects by Professor 

Note that projects shown in purple have notbeen confirmed or updated for 2001, while those shown in blue have been.

Prof. Abowd, Gregory (HCI, Software Engineering, Future Computing Environments)

Preferrably during the 2nd and 3rd phases
  1. Readings and Research Questions in Ubiquitous Computing
  2. The Aware Home Research Initiative
  3. Context-Aware Computing
  4. AutomatedCapture Environments
  5. Interested in other topics? Just ask!

Prof. Ahamad, Mustaque (Systems)

  1. Building Interactive Distributed Applications
  2. Efficient Data Access Mechanisms for Wide-area Distributed Systems
  3. Security Architectures for Pervasive Computing Environments 
  4. DependableDistributed Services
  5. Decentralized Trust Architectures 

Prof. Ammar, Mostafa (Networking)

Prof. Arkin, Ron  (Intelligent Systems)

  1. Braitenberg Vehicles
  2. with Lilia Moshkina: Temporal Degradation Techniques for Robotic Affective States

Prof. Badre, Albert (HCI)

Prof. Balch , Tucker (Intelligent Systems and Robotics) 

  1. The Association Problem for Multiagent Tracking

Prof. Bobick, Aaron (Computational Perception & GVU)

Prof. Bruckman, Amy and Lizzie Edwards (Learning Sciences and Technology)

  1. With Jason Elliott: Math+ 3D + Games = Happy Students

Prof. Contry, Ruth (Architecture)

Prof. Dellaert, Frank (Intelligent Systems)

  1. Non-GPS Outdoor Tracking Systems
  2. Accurately Tracking People's Heads Indoors
  3. Outdoor 3D Reconstruction

Prof. Ding, Yan (Theory/Security)

Prof. Dos Santos, Andre (Security)

  1. Security Flaws on Applications
  2. Using Smart Cards for Authentication

Prof. Eastman, Chuck (GVU)

Prof. Essa, Irfan (Intelligent Systems & GVU)

  1. Experiments with Speech Recognition
  2. With Lionel Reveret: Facial Animation: Using Speech Recognition for Lip Synch
  3. With Lionel Reveret: Facial Modeling/Animation: Predicting visual information from acoustic for LipSynch
  4. With Lionel Reveret: Robust Speech Recognition using Audio and Visual Information
  5. Aware Home: Perception and Ubiquitous Sensing
  6. Aware Home: Recognizing what people are doing?
  7. With Antonio Haro: Non-photorealistic rendering in hand drawn styles
  8. With Antonio Haro: Perceptual User Interfaces

Prof. Ezquerra, Norberto (GVU)

Prof. Ferguson, Ron (Intelligent Systems)

  1. Analogical retrieval of symbols from a symbol database
  2. Hook up a multi-modal sketching system to a portable electronic whiteboard
  3. Generate qualitative spatial descriptions of drawn floor plans
  4. Analyze the metaphor character of arrows

Prof. Fujimoto, Richard (Systems)

  1. Distributed Simulation
  2. Network Emulation

Prof.Goda, John ()

Prof.Goel, Ashok (Intelligent Systems)

  1. Using Functional Models to Support Self-Adaptation
  2. Model-Based Dynamic Design of Data-Mining Agents
  3. Model-Based Dynamic (Re-)Design of Reactive Control Agents
  4. Using Qualitative Models to Localize Reinforcement Learning

Prof.Guzdial, Mark (Learning Sciences and Technology)

  1. Analyzing Collaborative Websites
  2. Designing Collaborative Spaces
  3. Creating Multimedia

Prof. Harrold, Mary Jean (Software Engineering and Programming Languages)

  1. Integrated Testing and Verification
  2. With Alex Orso: Component Metadata for Software Engineering
  3. With Alex Orso: Development of a GUI for a Java Analysis Tool
  4. Other Topic Areas in Software Engineering/Programming Languages

Prof. Hodges, Larry (GVU)

  1. Virtual Environments

Prof. Koenig, Sven (Intelligent Systems)

  1. Rapid Random Restarts for Real-Time Heuristic Search
  2. Artificial Intelligence and Network Routing
  3. Learning to Play Pinball (in Simulation)
  4. Multi-Agent Exploration
  5. Probabilistic Planning for Directed Evolution

Prof. Kolodner, Janet (Cognitive Science, AI, and Learning Sciences andTechnology)

  1. Contact Prof. Kolodner about available projects.

Prof. Lee, Wenke (Security)

  1. Reading and Research Questions in Intrusion Detection
  2. Installation, Extension, and Experimentation of a Network Intrusion Detection System

Prof. Liu, Ling (Systems and Databases)

  1. Object Mining On the Web
  2. Connecting An Information Change Monitoring Service with PDAs
  3. Internet Data Mining
  4. Evaluating Proxy Cache Algorithms and Implementations
  5. Building A Domain Specific Application Using Wrappers
  6. Analyzing Network Monitoring Tools

Prof. Lipton, Richard (Theory)

Prof. MacIntyre, Blair (GVU)

    Distributed 3D Graphics
    1. Distributed 3D Graphics
    Augmented Reality
    1. 3D Augmented Reality Prototype
    2. Audio-only Augmented Reality

Prof. Mackenzie, Ken (Systems & Architecture)

Prof. Manolios, Peter (Formal Methods)

  1. (An Initial Segment of) The Ordinals
  2. An Exercise in Program Correctness Using ACL2
  3. With Prof. Wenke Lee: Formally modeling security protocols
  4. Formal Methods Projects

Prof. Mark, Leo (Databases)

  1. Vocal Programmer
  2. XML Schema Schema

Prof. Mihail, Milena (Theory)

Prof. Mynatt, Elizabeth (HCI)

  1. Interfaces for Background Awareness
  2. Interfaces for Everyday Computing
  3. Nonspeech Audio Interfaces
  4. With Jen Mankoff: Direct Brain-Computer Interface

Prof. Navathe, Sham (Databases)

Prof. Nersessian, Nancy (Cognitive Science)

Prof. Omiecinski, Ed (Databases)

  1. Data Mining Algorithms

Prof. Palem, Krishna (Systems, joint with ECE)

Prof. Pande, Santosh (Systems)

  1. Evaluation of Briggs/Chaitin style register allocators
  2. Security and Safety Aspects of Mobile Codes

Prof. Potts, Colin (HCI & Software Engineering)

  1. Things that go wrong with systems
  2. Design Rationale
  3. Feature Evolution and Variance

Prof. Pu, Calton (Systems)

Prof. Ram, Ashwin (Intelligent Systems)

Prof. Ramachandran, Kishore (Systems/Architecture/Software Methodolgy)

  1. Evaluating the programmability of Stampede
  2. Porting multithreaded programs for Beehive , a Software Distributed Shared Memory(SDSM)
  3. High availability software DSM: Beehive
  4. System support for ubiquitous presence: Stampede
  5. Whither goes time?

Prof. Randall, Dana ()

Prof. Rehg, Jim (Computer Vision, Graphics and Machine Learning)

  1. Experiments with Bayesian Networks Using BNT
  2. Visual Intelligence
  3. Learning Models of Human Motion
  4. Object Recognition

Ribarsky, Bill (Data Visualization) 

  1. With Prof. Larry Hodges: GPS Position Tracking
  2. With Prof. Larry Hodges: Multimodal Interfaces for Virtual Environments
  3. With Chris Shaw: Real-time 3D Visualization of Severe Weather

Prof. Rossignac, Jarek (GVU)

  1. Hexagonal Filling
  2. Hypervolume compression

Rugaber, Spencer (Software Engineering and Programming Languages)

  1. Program Modularization Detection using a k-Cut Algorithm
  2. Grammatical Inference of Interobject Protocols
  3. Entropic Design

Prof. Schwan, Karsten (Systems)

  1. With Greg Eisenhauer: Remotely Filtered Event Streams for Distributed Applications
  2. With Ada Gavrilovska: Optimistic Virtual Synchrony
  3. With Christian Poellabauer: Extending the /proc Interface in Linux

Prof. Shaw, Chris (GVU)

  1. Virtual Environments
  2. Virtual Fire Fighters

Prof. Shivers, Olin (Software Engineering & Programming Languages)

Prof. Smaragdakis, Yannis (Programming Languages)

  1. Security by Obscurity
  2. Java Bytecode Rewriting

Prof. Starner, Thad (Wearable Computing & GVU)

Prof. Stasko, John (HCI)

  1. Anthropomorphic Interface Agents

Prof. Szymczak, Andrzej (GVU)

Prof. Turk, Greg (GVU)

Prof. Vazirani, Vijay (Theory)

Vellanki, Vivekanand(Operating Systems & Information Retrieval)

  1. Finding Heuristics to Identify Related News Articles

Prof. Venkateswaran, H. (Theory)

  1. With Prof. Mustaque Ahamad: Access Control Mechanisms for Securing Distributed Applications
  2. With Prof. Mustaque Ahamad: Trust Management in Decentralized Systems

Prof Walker, Bruce ()

Prof. Xu, Jun (Jim) (Networking)

  1. Measurement of RTTs between GT and Other Places
  2. Survey on advances in Peer-to-peer technology
  3. Layer-5 Switching and/or application-layer switching
  4. Denial of Service Analysis

Prof. Zegura, Ellen (Networking)

  1. Performance of Mirror Servers
  2. With Richard Liston: Determining Characteristics of the Gnutella Network
  3. Quality of Peer-to-peer Overlay Networks
  4. Investigating the Timeliness of Real-Time Data on the Internet by Measuring Stock QuoteVariance

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