Browse 55 real Computational Sciences projects entered in 2015, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to develop a fast and accurate computer program to track and count the trails of charged particles in a cloud chamber video. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Creating a new method of stop sign detection that generates more accurate results than a heavily used traditional method (neural network) Determine a equation relating the s…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Emergency vehicles on duty are generally allowed to pass a red light. However that is not always be possible if there are several cars blocking its path. My project objectiv…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals (1) To analyze the intersection of 'n' non-parallel lines locating on the same plane, and try to find: A) How many angles (less than 180 degree) that 'n' lines can form; B)…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Scientists study the structural similarity of proteins for many purposes, such as developing new medicines, finding protein evolutionary relationships in the protein familie…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to investigate whether or not all irrational numbers contain patterns within their continued fraction form. Additionally, if they do have patter…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals We discuss arrangements of equal minors in the totally positive Grassmannian. It was previously shown that arrangements of equal minors of largest value correspond to the si…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals One of the most challenging problems in the field of medical science is predicting the drugs that will work for specific individuals diagnosed with varying cancer types. Tod…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Over 60% of people with dementia die without ever being diagnosed as dementia patients. The reason for this is the lack of precise tools, and the extent of time and effort i…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Electron transfer (ET) governs all known energy-conversion processes in biology. A remarkable example is the recent discovery of rapid ET along electrically conducting bacte…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Anti-malware software is responsible for the protection of some of our society#s most important infrastructure. I have designed and implemented a novel anti-malware system (…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Can I make a video game that blind and sighted players can enjoy? Methods/Materials Computer Version of GameMaker: Studio 25 blindfolded test subjects and 25 subjects not bl…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objectives during this experiment were to learn to program a Lego robot and program it to patrol around an area and defend it against intruders by executing a series of a…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The sound of wind chimes can be used as a seed to generate truly random numbers. Methods/Materials A wind chime for recording sound, a fan to control wind speed, a recording…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to create a trading strategy to achieve a higher rate of return than the overall stock market. I predicted that it is possible to outperform the buy-and-hol…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal is to generally improve the performance of any device through combining multiple programming languages. Methods/Materials The important Materials are: Computer Ecli…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals A dermatoscope is a handheld device used by doctors to view skin tumors. Very few dermatoscopes provide any form of intelligent analysis or diagnostic support. Machine visio…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to develop efficient algorithms for self navigating vehicles to maneuver around roads. To simulate a self driving car, I created an optimized al…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to devise a method of solving the Rubiks Cube that is not only simple to learn, but also solves the Rubiks Cube fairly quickly. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to create a Minecraft mod that creates an instant elevator with the help of logic gates and adders. Methods/Materials Materials: PC; Full Version of Minecra…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to find how much air is in a water bubble and if this is enough to supply a human. The hypothesis is if size and pressure of bubbles at 0.3…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The Ulam Spiral is a way of visually displaying the prime numbers which shows some of the sequence relationships which exist across the whole set of natural numbers. My proj…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to design a computer game that can be played successfully by sighted and blind players. My hypothesis is, if the correct audio cues are used the…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
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, hidden, or under extreme lighting. Nove…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Testing for diseases sometimes gives false positive or false negative results. Even for tests that are 99% accurate, it was hypothesized that, in the testing of a population…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Any sum over the naturals such as 1 + 2 + 3 . . . n = F(n) can be converted to a sum over the primes such as 2 + 3 + 5 + . . p_n = P(n) where p_n is the n-th prime. I starte…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The main purpose of the project is to introduce a notion of Differential Topology in the setting of Fuzzy Set Theory, introduced by Zadeh in the 1960's. As Fuzzy Set Theory…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My goal of this project was to accurately show how long I was on the computer, and what I was doing, based on mouse movement, keystrokes, and CPU usage. Methods/Materials Th…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The determination of individuals' mood in a review of a restaurant or the public sentiment of a political campaign are incredibly important statistics that cannot be accurat…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals Since 1990, over 747 children (on average 31 per year) have died from heat stroke when left alone in a vehicle. This is an alarming situation, so I decided to solve this pro…