Browse 52 real Computational Sciences projects entered in 2012, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if radial and transect sampling methods will represent a whole population statistically and at what sample size. It is obviously not practical fo…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find a good way to compare scores from tests with varying numbers of questions. Methods/Materials A model of test-taking was created whe…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to develop a new stochastic groundwater flow model by characterizing the hydrogeological variables (including hydraulic head and transmissiv…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Computer languages such as Java can be used to code programs which simulate future generations of data based on a solid mathematical model, such as in the case of generating…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals An abnormal bone density leads to fractures and/or osteoporosis. Currently, the way to measure patient#s bone density is to take a bone mineral density (BMD) measurement. Th…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This research is aimed at developing a driver-assistance system based on multimodal sensor fusion to help drivers in navigating their cars safely. It includes elderly driver…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Develop and implement an accurate image processing algorithm to address challenges in vessel extraction for retinal images in order to help the diagnosis and prevention of r…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To produce a novel device that would allow secure and protected transmission of a secret audio message between a sender and a receiver through the use of a publicly availabl…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Our purpose was to create a computer program that can learn to play tic-tac-toe. We were interested in how artificial intelligence works and wanted to see if we could create…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The main goal is to create an algorithm that efficiently differentiates stationary objects from the background using the optical approach and limiting the system to one sens…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Can Something that is designed be recreated by random chance? What is the probability if the materials needed were present? I believe that none of the designed things that I…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Determine which cashier strategy is most efficient. In this case, the strategy that results in the shortest average waiting time in the queue is the most efficient. I consid…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to implement two RAM disk file systems and test their performance under Dreckig OS. This operating system uses the experimental megalithic kernel…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals AI researchers have always been interested in abstract strategy games because they involve complex human thought process and a clean environment with clear criteria for succ…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals Our project was to create a global positioning system (GPS) by building a device to measure the azimuth and elevation of the Sun and creating an algorithm to calculate the l…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a computer program be used to demonstrate the birthday paradox where in a group of 23 people there is a 50.5% probability that two people ha…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal was to develop a novel test for accurately identifying duplicated content in a large text corpus and build an efficient program to detect duplicate content based on…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine whether or not cosmic dust in space will slow a spacecraft down, and if so, how long it would take. Methods/Materials Since real-worl…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if a mobile operating system could be developed to run on a wide variety of ARM based mobile processors while remaining portable…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Objectives: 1) Explore the distribution of quadratic residues and find patterns or explore randomness. 2) Number Theory is quite heavily used in modern-day cryptography. Are…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals A population dynamics model of gray whales by a biologist John Brandon does not "work" for unknown reasons. My goal was to discover why and attempt to fix this "graymodel."…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to develop an artificial intelligence to play the ancient Chinese board game, Go. The game is played on a nineteen by nineteen tiled board an…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the experimental value of pi obtained using Buffon#s Needle Experiment approaches the actual value of pi in a consistent and speedy way over…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that the Lotka-Volterra differential equations may not be the appropriate equations to describe certain predator-prey models, wh…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Last year, when I was in sixth grade, I created holograms by capturing interference fringes onto a holographic plate using a laser. This year I wanted to find out if it was…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objectives are to: 1) create a virtual bipedal robot consisting of two manipulators and a two-jointed connecting bar. 2) write a control program to investigate the viabil…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Unmanned Aerial Systems pose a wide variety of civilian applications. However, the majority of current systems were developed for military applications and are expensive to…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Machine learning algorithms can be used for cancer diagnosis, but which are best? This project compares four algorithms: Decision Tree, Majority, Nearest Neighbors, and Best…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover if patterns in Pascal's triangle could be found and identified in nature. Methods/Materials To begin my exploration I needed many Blank Pascal#s…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of my science project was to determine the age at which NBA players peak. I believed that the average NBA player would peak around the ages of twenty-four and twent…