home search students news contact Your search returned 18 results (sorting by Date Added / Opp Id) conduct new search # Research Title College Department Professor   Description (partial) research details opp ID credits last modified 1 Programming Tools: Supporting People Learning how to Program Computers School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Goldman, Kenneth stipend pre-reqs internship 2107 0 crds 04-25-08   Learning to program computers is more than absorbing the syntax of a new language. Learners must employ elements of program design, translate designs into an environment for programming, model the program in a language, and tangle with debugging strategies. Our goal is to assist learners in these processes by creating ... more 2 Computer Science: Global Webcam Database School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Pless, Robert stipend pre-reqs internship 2083 3 crds 02-05-08   There are tens of thousands of outdoor webcameras constantly collecting images of our world. My lab has been logging these images over the last 2 years to create a long term database of how natural scenes change. We are interested in using these images to (a) geolocate and geo-orient unknown camera ... more 3 Mobile Robotics School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Smart, William D. stipend pre-reqs internship 2046 3 crds 07-13-07   We are conducting research in several areas of mobile robotics, from the design of low-level software architectures, to what it takes to make humans and robots interact well, and perform tasks cooperatively. We are looking for students with experience in distributed middleware, software engineering, mobile robotics, sensor interpretation, computer vision, ... more 4 Brain-Computer Interfaces School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Smart, William D. stipend pre-reqs internship 2045 3 crds 07-13-07   We are working with researchers in the Washington University School of Medicine to develop direct brain-computer interfaces: interfaces that let you control things in the world by just thinking about it. We are currently working with systems that control video games, robot arms, and mobile robots. We are looking for ... more 5 Art-based Rendering School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Grimm, Cindy stipend pre-reqs internship 2044 3 crds 07-12-07   Over the years artists have developed a loose set of rules and traditions that enable them to effectively convey information to viewers. Many of these rules and traditions have been developed by "reverse engineering" the human visual and cognitive systems. I am working on ways to quantify these decisions in ... more 6 Surface Modeling School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Grimm, Cindy stipend pre-reqs internship 2043 3 crds 07-12-07   I am primarily interested in the representation, creation, and comparison of complicated, organic shapes. To date, most of the more interesting free-form models are made by scanning in 3D shapes. Creating complicated shapes from scratch on the computer has proved to be a difficult task. I have developed a novel ... more 7 Artificial Intelligence: Content-Based Image Retrieval School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Goldman, Sally stipend pre-reqs internship 2042 3 crds 07-11-07   Recently there has been an explosion in the amount of digital images available. While keyword annotation is the traditional image retrieval paradigm, given the size of the image repositories, keyword annotation becomes infeasible due to the amount of labor required. We aim to develop algorithms to efficiently and effectively retrieve ... more 8 Computational Biology, Genomics, and Bioinformatics School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Brent, Michael stipend pre-reqs internship 2041 0 crds 06-26-07   Genome sequences contain many secrets and hidden treasures. Where are the genes in the genome? What are the sequences of their protein products? When are they expressed, and how abundantly? What proteins of known structure or function do they resemble? What makes chimpanzees different from humans, despite the extremely high ... more 9 Artificial intelligence: heuristic search, planning School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Zhang, Weixiong stipend pre-reqs internship 2040 3 crds 06-25-07   In addition to developing machine learning and datamining techniques for molecular biology, we have also been focusing on research on heuristic search and planning in AI. One major aim of our research is to understand the typical (or average) case complexity of combinatorial search problems and search algorithms, and furthermore ... more 10 Computational molecular biology and machine learning School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Zhang, Weixiong stipend pre-reqs internship 2039 3 crds 06-25-07   The central theme of our research in the area of computational molecular biology is the development of efficient methods and algorithms for extracting and analyzing complex patterns from large quantities of data, particularly those from biological and medical applications, and for integrating diverse information from multiple data sources, for example, ... more 11 Artificial Intelligence: Pattern Recognition, Modeling, Planning, and Optimization for Business Applications School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Chen, Yixin stipend pre-reqs internship 2038 3 crds 06-21-07   Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have many uses in business. The goal of this research is to design, implement, deploy, and evaluate AI technologies for business decision making and operation management. Undergraduates in the group have an opportunity to work on major AI areas including data mining, pattern recognition, trend prediction, ... more 12 Computer Graphics: Geometric Modeling and applications in bio-medical image analysis School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Ju, Tao stipend pre-reqs internship 2036 3 crds 06-21-07   Representing real-world objects in three-dimensional digital forms plays key roles in a diverse range of domains such as manufacturing, architecture, entertainment, medicine and education. Our group is concerned with how to construct high-quality geometric models from raw data, and how to utilize such models in interogating the data and comparing ... more 13 Ultrasonic Imaging: Low-Cost, High-Performance Architectures for B-Mode Imaging School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Richard, William D. stipend pre-reqs internship 2035 3 crds 06-21-07   B-mode ultrasonic imaging is used to image many different organs, and it is used exclusively to image the eye. Advances in electronics technology, combined with the development of new image formation techniques, have enabled the development of very low cost B-mode systems that are, at the same time, capable of ... more 14 Computational Logic: Language-based Program Verification School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Stump, Aaron stipend pre-reqs internship 2034 3 crds 06-21-07   Program verification is concerned with mathematically proving that software does what it is specified to do. The problem is of significant societal importance: software bugs are estimated by the U.S. government to cost the U.S. economy $60 billion every year. It is also very challenging, from both a theoretical ... more 15 Networking: Empowering Innovation through Efficient and Secure School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Gorinsky, Sergey stipend pre-reqs internship 2033 3 crds 06-21-07   Over a relatively short period, the Internet has transformed the world by interconnecting people to an unprecedented degree. However, severe efficiency and security flaws of the original Internet architecture have also become evident. The Applied Research Laboratory is leading an effort to redesign the Internet to resolve these deficiencies and ... more 16 Mobile Computing: Supporting Collaboration in Mobile Environments School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Roman, Gruia-Catalin stipend pre-reqs internship 2032 0 crds 01-11-08   Mobile computing devices such as PDAs and SmartPhones, by virtue of the fact that they are carried on one's person, represent the ideal platform for multi-user collaborative applications. The Mobile Computing Lab is developing the next generation of collaborative software that aims to reduce the overhead associated with collaboration for ... more 17 Flexible Software Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Roman, Gruia-Catalin stipend pre-reqs internship 2031 0 crds 01-11-08   Wireless sensor networks represent the next generation of computing in which thousands of tiny sensors are embedded in the environment. Their lower deployment and maintenance costs enable better sensing coverage and granularity than traditional wired systems. The Mobile Computing Lab is developing a novel middleware called Servilla that enables programmers ... more 18 Distributed Systems: Reliable Computing Infrastructure for Critical Applications School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science and Engineering Goldman, Kenneth stipend pre-reqs internship 2029 3 crds 06-01-07   Institutions and enterprise rely upon software systems that must continue to operate correctly in spite of computer and network failures, and malicious attacks. The mission of the Distributed Systems Group is to simplify design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing evolution of reliable distributed applications. We are interested in programming models, algorithms ... more < prev 1 new search next>
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