Browse 54 real Computational Sciences projects entered in 2016, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Provide a visual proof for complex mathematical identities. Methods/Materials Paper and pencil. Results The three formulas I proved using a visual method called tiling helpe…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals As of 2013, 126.6 million people around the world have developed the eye disease diabetic retinopathy, and this number continues to grow every day. In many areas where peopl…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals 75 percent of Americans are dehydrated, leading to an influx of general health problems, such as obesity and heart disease. The reason for this is the unavailability of low-…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine how the amount of hidden neurons in an artificial neural network affect its performance in the game "Dots and Boxes." The o…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Third Award
Objectives/Goals Swarms of robots offer an alternative to the conventional single-robot approach in navigation and exploration problems. In this project, I show the viability of using Artifi…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to design an efficient algorithm that creates assignments that maximize overall satisfaction, and to then make software specifically applying the a…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Image recognition technology is a hot field in computing that is currently applied in areas including health, security, gaming, autonomous vehicles, and virtual reality. The…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The goal is to develop an incremental self-learning model that helps in the prediction of drug behavior effectively increasing the net knowledge without human intervention M…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Currently, the use of neural networks has been restricted to image classification. Video classification has been a challenge due to the difficulty of fusing spatial-temporal…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Efficient energy use can help to combat global warming. Transportation of people and goods has increased with the expansion of global markets, leading to greater energy cons…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals When a musician is learning to play an instrument, they must learn to hit all of the notes in tune. This can be more difficult on instruments that can produce continuous var…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Stylometry, which has been around since at least the 19th century, is the analysis of linguistic style in writing, generally used to determine the author of an unknown piece…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness globally. Today, the disease has the potential to affect 382 million diabetic patients worldw…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to develop a computer vision algorithm for solving the problem of exhaustively searching for a predefined path, by solely analyzing a video…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Create and program a computer for the blind community at a low price using inexpensive modern technologies. The computer should be able to allow the blind to 1) View and Edi…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Over 560 million people are colorblind. These people cannot see all colors and will have a hard time distinguishing between two colors that, to them, are too similar to each…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to analyze if a given image is similar to any of the images in a large dataset, and if so, how similar. While comparing two images, we seek to al…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science First Award
Objectives/Goals To develop a simple, responsive and reliable method of digitally assessing the risk of cancer in skin lesions using an iPhone app. Methods/Materials 8 numerical methods were…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Fusion inhibitor proteins prevent the HIV-1 gp41 glycoprotein from binding with the receptors on the host cell. However, scientific understanding of inhibitory potencies amo…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to devise a cryptosystem that is both efficient and secure. Methods/Materials Paper, pencils and a computer for initial research. Wolfram Ma…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to test numerous designs (based on mathematical problems and basic operations) to aid in the construction of faster and more secure hash…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Are Fractal Neural Networks more efficient than Feed-Forward Neural Networks in their accuracy of outputs, RMS error values, and overall learning growth and progression? My…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Music has always fascinated me - especially genres. What classifies a particular song into a certain genre or subgenre? Do these subgenres actually differ? I decided to try…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Every single fall, collision, or strike puts an athlete#s brain at risk. This danger manifests as 4 million sports-related concussions occurring annually, of which an estima…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Build and program an autonomous drone that can carry out search and rescue missions in realistically dangerous terrain, without human control. More specifically, the drone s…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out if completing the most challenging triathlon races as a youth athlete would help you become an All-American triathlete (rank top…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals My goal is to find shapes that wrap a unit sphere with small area and perimeter in order to economize material usage in wrapping spherical objects. Methods/Materials I defin…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to develop, test and compare multiple image compression algorithms to find out which image compression algorithms/methods are the most effective…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to build a machine perception system capable of fusing sensor data from disparate sources to give an autonomous car situational awareness.…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to understand whether or not the algorithm I created could be used to solve geometry problems. Methods/Materials Computer with Eclipse IDE and…