Independent Research
I am always open and seeking opportunities to collaborate with students on research projects - whether for class, for fun, or sometimes even for profit!
- An investigation of the security of electronic voting [1]
- Online digital signature verification [2]
- A framework for migrating web application functions [3]
- Accessible visualization of global statistics [4]
[1] - Mentor for Andrea Wilson, Miles College, BACHE Scholars in Computer Science
[2] - Mentor for Bradley Whited, Samford University, BACHE Scholars in Computer Science
[3] - Mentor for William Skinner, Birmingham Southern College, BACHE Scholars in Computer Science
[4] - Mentor for Michael Johnston, Birmingham Southern College, BACHE Scholars in Computer Science
Class Projects
- Roboadvisor - automated student and faculty class schedule recommendation software
- Design and implementation of a Java interpreter for Termite Scheme
- Design and implementation of a Java interpreter for Tiny Basic
- Design of an online store for selling maps
Senior Projects
I have been fortunate to teach our senior seminar and project course (i.e., capstone experience) for the past three years (2005-2008) and worked closely with students on a number of very interesting projects:
- “An Algorithm for Detecting the Correlation between Athletic Training Programs and Injuries” by Josh Brennard
- “A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Course Scheduling” by Laurel Matherly
- “SimNation: User Friendly Nationalism” by Robert Webster
- “A Cellular Automaton Approach to Model the Sea Breeze Effect” by Scott Kubina
- “Enhancement of Traffic Using Genetic Algorithm” by Alex Karaman
- “Using Parallel Processing To Search XML Documents” by Benjamin Dennis
- “The Continuing Evolution of Computer Graphics” by Daniel Mills
- “TCP/IP Optimization using a Distributed Genetic Algorithm” by Jarret Melick
- “Web Development, Open Source and Security” by Jason Wilson
- “A Performance Analysis of ClusterKnoppix” by William Ellis
- “Data Mining with a Neural Network” by Michael Pruitt
- “Vision Based Hand Gesture Recognition” by Sean Hill