Computer Science Department MQP Topics Presentation

1. Computer Science DepartmentMQP Topics Presentation April 13 2007 http://www.cs.wpi.edu/Undergraduate/interests.html

2. Schedule of presenters • Emmanuel Agu • Rob Lindeman • Murali Mani • Stanley Selkow • George Heineman (Speaking on behalf of Bob Kinicki) • Craig Wills • Dan Dougherty • Dave Brown • Michael Gennert, Dept. Head • Gary Pollice • Mike Ciaraldi • Carolina Ruiz • Elke Rundensteiner • George Heineman http://www.cs.wpi.edu/Undergraduate/interests.html

3. Emmanuel Agu • Perceptual Issues • Question: how do various graphics/visual effects affect playability/outcome of games • Answer through experiments • Study architecture of available game engine (e.g. C4) • Change lighting • Add fog • Add smoke • Vary resolution • Substitute textures with images • Many variables!! Which one affect players most? http://www.cs.wpi.edu/Undergraduate/interests.html

4. MQP 2: Power consumption • Game engines optimized for speed, image quality • Battery energy is main mobile problem on • MQP focus: reduce energy usage of game engine • Understand energy usage of game engine’s parts • Strategies to reduce the game engine’s energy consumption Emmanuel Agu, FL-139, emmanuel@cs.wpi.edu http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~emmanuel/research/projects/MQPs.html

5. Virtutopia: (with Heineman)Finishing up the Foundation • What is it? • A scalable framework for multiplayer games and virtual reality • New stuff: • Client-side State Updates • Server-side State Updates • Mobile clients • Network topology • Level of detail switching • Tools for artists R. Lindeman - WPI Dept. of Computer Science (gogo@wpi.edu)

6. Augmented Reality, Gaming,and Robotics • DrummAR: (with Josh Rosenstock) Augmented-Reality DrumGame • Like DDR/Guitar Hero/Elite Beat Agents • Player uses a head-mounted, see-through display to see drums and graphics • SecondLife Haptic Interface (with Yusuf Pisan) • Incorporate TactaVest • Incorporate Wii controller • Virtual Robot Tele-operator Interface • Map robot sensor data to a robot operator • Map operator input to robot actuation • Evaluate several alternative operator/robot interfaces R. Lindeman - WPI Dept. of Computer Science (gogo@wpi.edu)

7. Murali Mani Past Projects • Hidden Web • Consider a site like amazon.com. It has its data about books, CDs etc hidden behind a form interface. • This hidden data could be indexed, searched and integrated with other data sources • The goal of this project is to research various opportunities for getting to this hidden data, and to develop a software tool that does the same • View Maintenance • Materialized views can be considered the database equivalent of cached data. View maintenance refers to keeping the cached data consistent in the face of changes at the source • Builds on MS project which experimentally compared performance gains of our approaches with existing approaches in DBMS such as Oracle • The goal of this project is to develop and test our research solutions for efficient view maintenance http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~mmani/mqp.html

8. Murali Mani Past Projects • Personal Health Management System • Develop a system for patients to manage their own individual health records. Key features of this system include: a model and implementation for querying the history (lineage) of patient data, a module for integrating different data sources especially those available on the web • Develop prototype system and interface used by patients • Database for Environmental Science Researchers - Co-advised with Stanley Selkow, Betsy Colburn (Harvard Forest) • A vernal pond is an ecological important body of water which lasts through much of the summer but dries by autumn. • Researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency and others all through the northeast need a centralized data base into which school groups, consultants, regulators, naturalists, and scientists can put data on vernal pools they observe (physical dimensions, hydrologic characteristics, biota, etc). • Develop online database which will accumulate the data from many sources http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~mmani/mqp.html

9. Stanley Selkow http://www.cs.wpi.edu/Undergraduate/interests.html

10. Sponsored MQPs at General Dynamics • Two MQPs (2-4 persons each) • Work done on site in Needham MA • about 40 minutes from Worcester • The General Encryption Manager (GEM) Lite product was developed by General Dynamics C4 Systems for the management of their secure encryption product line Prof. Robert Kinicki <rek@cs.wpi.edu>

11. General Encryption Manager PDA Port • Port the General Encryption Manager (GEM) Lite product to a PDA • Build upon previous student work who verified the feasibility of operating SNMP on a PDA • Development • Embedded Visual C++ for PDA development • Visual C++ on Windows for agent code GEM Lite functionality User Interface Project • Investigate user interface design issues in porting the GEM Lite product to a PDA • Develop novel approach to present large amount of information on reduced display size • Development • Coding platform varies (C++, GUI) Prof. Robert Kinicki <rek@cs.wpi.edu>

12. Craig Wills • Network Application Performance and Security • This area has many potential directions centered around better understanding network application performance • Explore active measurement of Internet activity through Javascript extensions to a browser • Analyze the performance of applications through passively collected flow data • Suggested Background: Familiarity with Webware, Networking and Operating Systems • Characterizing Mobile Web Content (with Prof. Agu) • This project builds on previous work to characterize the nature of Web content available and used for mobile devices • Suggested Background: Familiarity with Webware, Networking and Operating Systems http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/courses/mqptopics.html

13. Craig Wills • Asserting Network Application Behavior (with Prof. Dougherty) • Develop an interpreter for writing and applying rules (assertions) about the expected behavior of networked application traffic • Rules could be reasoned about to ensure consistency in a similar manner to access control lists. Apply rules to actual network traces to understand how to extend the rules to other detection tools such as firewalls • Suggested Background: Familiarity with Networking, Logic and Languages • Cisco-Sponsored Projects (in Boxborough, MA) • Projects will be done on-site in one term with a prior term PQP. Projects will be available for on-campus work • Voice, Media Routing and Networking along with tools associated with these areas. • Suggested Background: Familiarity with Networking, Object-Oriented Programming (C++/Java), Databases and Webware http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/courses/mqptopics.html

14. ⊨ ⊨ Datalog ⊨ ⊨ ⊨ Dan Dougherty • Access Control • Business Rules • Obligations • And others… Dan Dougherty <dd@cs.wpi.edu>

15. Dan Dougherty • EMC sponsored: Design for X where X= manufacturability, testability, etc • Design, develop and deploy a distributed application to capture the DfX checklist items and relate them to new EMC designs • Will be an enterprise-wide tool accessed by various design centers, engineers and managers • Create an automated Scorecardthat provides a clear view of how any particular EMC product design, or group of designs, performed when compared to the DFx checklist items • Conduct interviews with EMC engineers and managers to define the problem and provide possible solutions • Technologies and tools that might be utilized include: • Microsoft Framework 2.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, C#, VB, Oracle, MS Access, … Dan Dougherty <dd@cs.wpi.edu>

16. Dave Brown • General Interests • Artificial Intelligence Applications • Human Computer Interaction • Design Theory & Methodology • Examples • Intelligent User Interfaces • Adaptive Web Sites • Implicit Interest Indicators • Web Page Evaluators (for Recommendation Systems) • Design Rationale capture & use • Detecting and representing Assumptions • Functional reasoning • Multi-agent systems http://www.cs.wpi.edu/Undergraduate/interests.html

17. Dave Brown • NASA Project: • Title: "A Soft-Computing Agent" • Contact: Walt Truszkowski, Senior Technologist, NASA GSFC. • A, B, C terms 2007-08 • A "Soft-Computing Agent" is an agent which is capable of multi-modal reasoning utilizing various types of crisp and fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computing techniques, model-based reasoning, and combinations thereof... http://www.cs.wpi.edu/Undergraduate/interests.html

18. SPECT heart “phantom” After motion blur Corrected Patient Motion Detection & Correction • At UMass Medical School • Improve SPECT diagnoses • Compensate for patient motion • Improve image quality, diagnoses • Background: S/W Eng, Graphics, Linear Algebra Prof. Michael Gennert <michaelg@cs.wpi.edu>

19. Process image sequence Combine many blurry images into single good image Determine car size, shape, model (?) Background: Graphics, S/W Eng Forensic Image Processing Prof. Michael Gennert <michaelg@cs.wpi.edu>

20. This is Eclipse This is Webfoot Collaborative Development This is SourceForge

21. Gary Pollice MQP Interests • Collaborative development tools (Webfoot) • https://sourceforge.wpi.edu/sf/sfmain/do/viewProject/projects.webfoot • OpenSource • Collaborative development • 3 MQPs in 2006-7, 2 already planned for 2007-8 • Language-based MQPs • Domain-specific languages • Dynamic languages • Software Engineering • Sponsored (EMC and others) http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gpollice <gpollice@cs.wpi.edu>

22. Michael Ciaraldi • Wall Street Project Center • On-Site in Manhattan (& London) every B-term • B-term 2007 being decided now • Apply in November for B-2008 • Topics • E-commerce • Risks & Security • Data mining • Infrastructure • Workflow • Business Process Mapping • User Interface Evaluation • Lincoln Lab Project Center • On-site in Lexington MA in A-term • Shuttle provided • You can apply in November for A-2008 • US citizens only http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~ciaraldi

23. Michael Ciaraldi • Distributed Systems & Networking • Topics • Algorithms and analysis techniques for global-scale systems • Multi-Agent System Toolkit • Network incident reporting • Embedded & Real-Time Systems • Topics • Network appliances, e.g. file server. • Electronic music score using E-ink. • Real-Time Musical Collaboration over the Internet • Robotics (with ME & ECE) • New major starting A-2007 • Hardware design • Software design • Algorithms • AI • HCI • Projects: • Robot soccer • Security robot http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~ciaraldi

24. Prof. Carolina RuizMQP Topics • Research Interests: • Data Mining • Knowledge Discovery in Databases • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • With applications to: • Clinical Medicine • Bioinformatics (Genetics) • Contact: • ruiz@cs.wpi.edu • FL232 Mining Oncology Data: Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Performance of Cancer Patients Our Major Machine Learning & Data Mining Objectives • Patient Longevity • Quality of Life/Performance Status • Surgical Prospects • Imaging and Diagnostic Test Accuracy • Patient Demographics (breast cancer) Exploratory Analysis of Human Sleep Data Demographic Depression Epworth • Age • Sex • Collar Size • Weight • Height • Body Mass Index Feel Sad Appetite Cry Wake up gasping 0 1 2 3 Vivid dreams 0 1 2 3 Daytime tiredness 0 1 2 3 Fall asleep watching TV 0 1 2 3 0: Don’t feel sad; 1: Feel sad; 2: Sad all the time; 3: Unbearably sad 0: normal 1: not as good as it was 2: far worse than before 3: no appetite at all 0: not more than usual 1: more than I used to 2: all the time 3: can’t even cry if I want Design & develop a terabyte scale repository of human sleep data and use it for exploratory analysis Picture source:http://www.blsc.com

25. In this case, the occurrence “GGGATCCC” has higher weight than that of “AGGATCCC” Prof. Carolina RuizMQP Topics Computer Science Dept Biology & Biotechnology Dept Mathematical Sciences Dept Computer Science Dept Biology & Biotechnology Dept Project with the American Cleft Palate Association (ACPA) • Based on a recent Biology / Pre-medicine IQP • Goal: enhance a Web site (from the IQP) and develop database support to connect craniofacial patients in developing countries with medical professionals in the US Bioinformatics: Discovering Patterns in Genetic Data Gene Expression Regulation (association relationship) Transcription factors M8 M3 M2 Gene Start ofTranscription Motifs Cell Types {ASH,ASI,ASK}{HSN,PHA,ADL,ASK}{ASE,PHA,ASI,ASK}{ALM,HSN,PHA,CAN}{ALM,HSN}{ALM}{ALM}{ALM,PHA} Genes Motifs WEKA system

26. Query Query Query Elke Rundensteiner Office: Fuller 238 Phone: x5815 Email: rundenst@cs data Standing queries data static data data streams of data Query data data one-time queries data • Example of Stream Data Applications: • Market Analysis • Streams of Stock Exchange Data get rich • Critical Care • Streams of Vital Sign Measurements save lives • Physical Plant Monitoring • Streams of Environmental Readings protect environment

27. Elke Rundensteiner • CAPE Query Engine Load Spiller Service (JAVA): • Service for run-time spill/unspill services for a complete query plan • Design query policies, operator data structures, algorithms • Implement in CAPE engine, conduct experiments • Event Pattern Monitoring Engine • Support Sequence Queries and Extend to more Complex AND/OR Patterns • Handle out-of-order event input arrivals by either logging and result-correction or by exploiting predicting meta-data messages • Scale to support multiple event queries • RFID Data Service • Install actual RFID equipment in some campus environment • Support simple data collection and tracking queries, of either goods or people • Handling missing values or clean-up errors using domain knowledge • Visual Stream Monitoring Tool • Target a real stream application, such as flow simulation tool • Develop algorithms for multi-resolution data aggregation in time and space • Support visual query refinement of asking about a particular object or region http://www.cs.wpi.edu/Undergraduate/interests.html

28. Elke Rundensteiner / George Heineman • Brand New Purchase of 20-Node High-Performance PC Cluster (Rundensteiner/Mani/Heineman – NSF) • Implement and evaluate allocation/re-allocation algorithms for assigning stream query nodes to processor • Implement and compare two solutions for migrating at run-time query plans into new rewritten plans • Develop launch-pad for statistics monitoring for monitoring DCAPE experiments • Advanced Distributed and Parallel Software Architecture • Develop highly parallel applications • Build and experiment with multi-threaded/multi-processor algorithms • Primary focus is on monitoring framework for distributed cluster applications http://www.cs.wpi.edu/Undergraduate/interests.html

29. George Heineman For all Projects: Require background in Software Engineering, OOAD • Build on top of existing component development kit • ACDK • Tool for weaving & composing modules together • Automates much of the manual tedious task of development Feature-oriented Programming Eclipse Integration Project • Build on top of source code transformation system • EXTRACT • Refactoring code environment • FOCAL Component Model Implementation • Build on top of existing code framework • Develop comparative case studies with EJB and .NET

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