Browse 50 real Computational Sciences projects entered in 2014, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to provide doctors an automated and accurate method to diagnose skin cancer from dermoscopic skin lesion images. This system must exceed 95%…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project addresses the need to enhance math learning to prepare students in secondary education in STEM. The project was created to teach trigonometry by incorporating v…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This research focused on the development and training of a Machine Learning model for extracting meaning from natural language data. In our world today, it has become of inc…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals I started my project in order to create a method to count the number of leaves on a tree. I believe that by combining Leonardo da Vinci tree rule with Fibonacci numbers into…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was the design and construction of a technique that effectively removes blurring and ghosting artifacts in the process of high-dynamic-range (HDR) i…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals As per the World Health Organization factsheet No. 317, cardiovascular diseases, are the number one cause of death around the world and represent 30 % of deaths worldwide. F…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals Existing steady-state models have failed to accurately describe the cancerous mechanism known as overzealous p53 ubiquitination because they rely on the quasi-steady-state a…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To develop an easy, simple method for identifying microorganisms based on their DNA sequences, Bayes' theorem was applied to DNA sequence analysis. It was hypothesized that…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Finding the right songs to use in a video is a tedious process, as one must manually listen and evaluate many possible songs to determine whether they express the right mood…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals BACKGROUND: Evolutionary algorithms (or EAs) are used by engineers to optimize and improve designs with many input variables. A population of simulated designs (called creat…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals This project explores the field of constructibility of n-division points (points dividing a closed curve into n pieces of equal arc length) through straightedge and compass…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to construct a virtual image display system that incorporates head-tracking, stereoscopy, and other depth cues, as well as 360 degrees of viewing to create…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if automatically manipulating bipartite rules is an effective way to perform deductive logic. Methods/Materials A self-modifying system of rules…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals A major challenge in programming is building a program that is adaptive and can make decisions that can mimic human behavior. Many programs are written on pure conditions an…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals I wrote a real-time, 3D, interactive space flight simulator program. The biggest challenge was predicting the trajectory of a spacecraft. An existing simulator, Kerbal Space…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to create a digital voice assistant application for Android which can learn from the people using it. If a user tells the application somethin…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The project compares Dart and JavaScript, two programming languages, using the Kraken Benchmark. Methods/Materials Dart and JavaScript are both client-side languages; they r…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals It only takes one lost email or online banking password, or one hacked Facebook account to turn your world upside down. The average consumer does not realize the fact that p…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to evaluate the most secure data encryption technique. Methods/Materials I developed three separate encryption software programs using the Python…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Create an alternative syntax for HTML called Lima, modeled around the LISP family of programming languages. HTML is quite verbose for many tasks, and that#s what I wanted to…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals I want to use statistics in a new way to find out if professional athletes who graduate from college perform better than those who don't. I believe that the hard work and fo…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to design a computer program to model the game of Connect Four and to sometimes win against average human beings using defensive, offensive, and look ahead…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to develop a method for identifying faces in situations where a face is angled away from the camera or partially obscured. Novel recognition…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to test and explore how our benchmarking software, SiSoftware Sandra, tests the software and hardware of our 6 PCs. HYPOTHESIS: We predict that the desktop…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if pre-processing mammographic data with KDA (Kernel Discriminant Analysis) increases the accuracy of a machine-learning breast cancer diagnosi…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Security is a ubiquitous concern, vital for counterterrorism, wildlife reserve protection, crime prevention, and many other critical applications. Strategic resource allocat…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Modern technology has always been a part of my life and I wanted to learn more about biometrics and how they can be applied to weapons in the armed forces and child safety.…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In medicine today, treatments for patients are based on the diagnosis, not the patient individually. It has been shown that this is only effective for about 60% of people. T…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find the best answer to the Monty Hall problem using a computer program I created. Methods/Materials Materials: Computer Scratch 2.0 Programming Language…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if certain kinds of music should be classified as music or noise according to physics through a mathematical analysis of the waveforms of sampl…