ALIVE @ Samford University

ALIVE @ Samford University

Brian Toone, Assistant Professor

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Undergraduate

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