Senior Project Ideas Senior Project Goals Demonstrate Mastery

Senior Project Ideas

Senior Project Goals • • • Demonstrate Mastery of CS Curriculum Not just a webpage Gain experience for Future Job Dynamite demo for you interview Real experience before you get a job Learn or Improve on skill that you didn’t master in your regular CS courses

Project Ideas • Projects that interest your professors • We have some expertise in these areas • in some cases we have some code • We have reason to believe that they are sufficiently CS. • Projects that interest you • We are open to suggestions • Be ready to tell us about the challenges

Fair Division • Comparison with existing algorithms • Statistical Analysis • Paper publication • Utilization in an application • Scheduling Shift Workers • Dividing Household Items • Creating world Peace or at least using the algorithm in a political domain

Android Applications • Are you taking/have taken the Windows Programming class? • Programming in Java or C# or C++ • Applications must have some substance beyond a User Interface

Dots and Boxes • We have a complete solution to the 5 x 5 dots and boxes game (1 TB of data) • Big Data • How can we visualize this? • How can we gain insights through this • Solve another version of the game • Distributed Computing (CONDOR) • Retrograde analysis (AI) • High performance computing

Machine Learning • Deep Learning Problems • Use existing platforms for deep learning • Chess applications • Dots and boxes applications • Some other game application (poker, blackjack, monopoly, etc. )

One Semester Projects • I will be on sabbatical in the spring • Do two one-semester projects or choose something that another professor also has interest in and is willing to pickup in the spring.