Final Project Topics

13 June 2010 No Comment

Find inspiration in UW, CMU, Stanford research.

Artificial Intelligence
- intelligent transport systems
- swarm computing
- automatic image analysis (image search)
- automatic translation
- voice control
- natural language processing
- get ideas from MIT’s CSAIL

Human-Computer Interfaces
- brain-controlled computers
- gesture interfaces (skinput, sixth sense, Natal)

Ubiquitous Computing
- wearable computers
- “Smart grid” (sensors for electrical, power grids; HydroSense)
- RFID applications (“smart tags”, tracking)

Computing law
- laws regulating privacy
- anti-hacking laws

Large-scale computing
- quantum computing
- parallel computing (multi-core, multi-processor)

Computing Concepts
- Moore’s Law
- Agile Software Design
- Cloud Computing (Google docs, GMail, etc)
- Databases (information storage)
- Peer to peer networking (BitTorrent)
- Encryption

Human-based computation (Captcha)

Computing in the developing world

Android OS
Linux

People in computing
- Edsger Dijkstra (algorithms)
- Alan Turing (father of CS)
- Douglas Engelbart (pioneer, invented the mouse)
- Marissa Mayer (early Google employee)

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