Seminar 10/6/10: Text Mining and Its Use In Textual Research, Andrew Prather

Textual research – research involving literary text – is a fastidious and daunting task. Anyone with firsthand experience in serious textual research will be able to testify to the complex and time consuming nature of the process. Without the proper tools, the task can turn into a nightmare and the researcher can become lost in […]

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Seminar 4/21/10: Artificial Evolution, Curt Toppin

The theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin changed the way biologists view the world. Many programming structures are based on a real-world concept. By using the concept of fitness and mutation as a basis, we will discuss how to evolve images and LEGO structures for features desired by the user of the program. Sources: […]

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Seminar 4/7/10: Adaptive Lighting Design in Video Games, Emily Ruschill

Computer graphics have taken a giant stride forward in recent years, but has the lighting in video games kept pace? The answer is “yes and no”. While lighting has certainly improved, lighting design in games is still very much a static and labor intensive process. Researchers and programmers are working toward automatic and adaptive lighting […]

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Seminar 12/2/09: iPhone Application Development, Anshul Kumaria

With the emergence of smart phones in recent years, there has been a greater need for application development for mobile devices. iPhone is one such smart phone from Apple with various built in features including accelerometers, GPS navigation and touch screens. Developers can make use of these features to create interesting high end applications. The […]

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Seminar 11/18/09: How to Develop Good Games, Manish Kushwaha and Bo Li

In modern world designing games is much more difficult and tedious job. The growing complexity in games and the fact that they are becoming larger day by day, pops up a question to one’s mind, how to design good games. We will go over the evolution of game, defining games, and then talk about the […]

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Seminar 11/4/09: Code Hacking: Cross-Site Scripting, Kelly Schafbuch, Raveena Rastogi, Shikhar Rastogi

Cross-Site Scripting is a code hacking technique that is very popular, this technique tricks a victim in order to access their personal data through script injections and hidden HTML code. We will be looking at how this hacking technique occurs and ways that it can be prevented. During our presentation a live demonstration of this […]

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