Browse 47 real Computational Sciences projects entered in 2008, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project this year was to create a cipher based on a numerical system where all values corresponded with a printable character. Methods/Materials Our first…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals The Great "Spanish Flu" Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst in recent history and is viewed by epidemiologists as a "worst case" scenario. My objective was to learn…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals A major problem in a wireless networking system is that interference hinders the speed and distance of a network connection. This interference originates from a variety of s…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to invent an efficient algorithm to minimize the memory usage of software applications that use graph data structures. Based on analysis of…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the best control algorithm for a system where energy and time is important. The project considered the more prevalent PID and…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to optimize path finding around polygonal obstacles in 2-dimensional euclidean space. An increase in performance was achieved by allowing for im…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to design Artificial Neural Units that decode commands encoded in the temporal density of neural spike sequences (each unit decodes one command) and to use…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To prove if Benford's Law applies to randomly generated numbers, and not just numbers occuring from natural data sets. Methods/Materials Materials: Microsoft Excel Random Nu…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of my experiment was to evaluate three computer operating systems (Windows Vista, Mac OS Leopard and Linux) to determine which operating system is the best system.…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals With the astounding number of digital images available, there is an increasing need to search image collections. Many systems such as Google and Flickr use text-based search…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of the project was to determine, through computer simulation, which strategy performed best on average against all other strategies in the Iterated Prisoner#s Dilem…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals Increasing the capacity of the swarm translates to holding the prices of commodities steady for long periods of time using swarms of individual agents while in the presence…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to use ratios to find a pattern in the Banker#s offers in the game show #Deal or No Deal# to see whether the Banker knows what#s in the case or not? I think…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project in its present form is the result of investigation and experimentation on the correlation between the Fibonacci sequence and the spiral phyllotaxis, or leaf arr…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The problem I will be experimenting on is how the number of sides on a regular polygon affects the area of the polygon, in comparison to other polygons with the same fixed p…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project tested three random number generators (functions in Excel, C++, and Java) and evaluated the results using chi-square values from each experiment to determine wh…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To determine if the network of major roads on the Monterey Peninsula is subject to single point failure Methods/Materials Google maps was used to identify about 30 bridges,…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals An enormous amount of real-time information that is available on the Internet can be accessed and used in traditional control systems to improve performance. The objective o…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My goal is to find an alternative way to recognize the different iris patterns in each eye. Inside every eye, there is a special swirling, colored pattern that makes every o…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My main goal was to build a robot that commands by my voice. I also wanted to learn how to put together electronic components using a soldering iron, static mat, and other e…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My experiment was designed to test whether winning at Bingo is random. Methods/Materials Materials used: 1. 4 different Bingo cards 2. A Bingo Set: a Bingo calling cage, a b…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to predict the ability of brute force password decryptors to decode passwords, then compare the predicted decoding times with experimental r…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To find out how fast a JavaScript Sudoku Corrector program that I have handwritten works on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, PCs, and laptops. Also, to find out which com…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of Project Zier is the design and construction of a new security system to prevent identity theft and credit card fraud by employing a dynamic credit card syst…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The main purpose of this year's project is to investigate how the area changes when a sine curve is added to the graph of a circle. By using the program Nucalc, I plan on ca…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To determine the cheapest route when flying between five cities. Methods/Materials Using Internet Explorer and the website Expedia.com, five cites were selected. A calender…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of a surgical simulation is to a) Simulate as precisely as possible a real surgical procedure b) Gauge user performance based on a set of metrics c) Augment us…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Iron seeding has been proposed as a solution to global warming. Iron seeding would cause a phytoplankton bloom which would absorb more atmospheric CO2. The objective of this…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To discover if a human is better than a program for controlling a robot. My hypothesis is that a program would be better than a human for controlling Roomba, a robotic vacuu…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of my science fair project is to better understand self-similar objects and their fractal dimension. A self-similar object is one that is created out of multiple sm…