Independent Project Presentation Schedule (as of 12/08/04)

  (* titles prefixed with stars are thesis progress talks.)


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Wednesday, 12/08

  Morning session: Room 401

9:00am - 9:20am,  Sebastian Borza, dpd
  Interactive Hockey Strategy Management

9:20am - 9:40am,  Michael Wenzel, aslp
  Compounded Medicine

9:40am - 10:00am,  Paulo Quiros, schapire
  A physical representation of evolutionary algorithms 

10:00am - 10:20am,  Lorenzo Orecchia, arora
  *Approximating the Sparsest Cut problem  

10:20am - 10:40am,  Phillip Wei, smr, af
  Terrain Simulator for the DARPA Grand Challenge

10:40am - 11:00am,  


11:00am - 11:20am,  Alex Combs, appel
  Beyond Napster 

11:20am - 11:40am,  Mike Dinitz, arora
  *Approximation Algorithms for SPARSEST-CUT 

11:40am - 12:00pm, Trevor Brooks, alaink@princeton.edu
  *A Neural Network Implementation of Automated Vehicle Pathplanning and Arbitration

  Afternoon session: Room 301

1:00pm - 1:20pm,  Mark Daly, li
  Creating Shared Display Space

1:20pm - 1:40pm,  Frank Macreery, li
  Benchmarking Methods for Image Searching Algorithms  

1:40pm - 2:00pm,  Elika Etemad, bwk
  CSS3 Text Layout

2:00pm - 2:20pm,  Brad Friedman, alaink@princeton.edu
  *TIGERS (Totally Integrated Geosynchronous Environment Response System)

2:20pm - 2:40pm,  Adam Wible, ogt
  *A Generic Schema for Integration of Heterogeneous Biological Data 

4:30pm - 5:10pm, Clay Bavor and Jesse Levinson, schapire, bwk
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Thursday, 12/09

  Morning session: Room 301

9:00am - 9:20am,  Ariane Billings, chazelle
  Collaborative Filtering for Film Recommendations

9:20am - 9:40am,  Greg Fields, mef
  Using PlanetLab to support FPS Games

9:40am - 10:00pm,  Erik Lillethun, smr
  Using Optical Flow Algorithms to Avoid Collisions in an Automated Vehicle 

10:00am - 10:20am,  Ross Bogenschneider, smr
  Darpa Independent Work

10:20am - 10:40am,  Drew Weyerhaeuser, felten, af
  Seeking Sinatra: a Better Search for iTunes' Shared Music Feature

10:40am - 11:00am,  Peter Landwehr, af, bwk, njp
  An Exploration of Fast Algorithms for Global Illumination

11:00am - 11:20am,  Bryce Liu, prc, bwk, njp
  Query by Humming: An Approach to Automated Song Identification  

11:20am - 11:40am,  Michael Weishuhn, bwk
  Tracker: A Track Meet Manager 


  Afternoon session: Room 301

1:30pm - 1:50pm,  Rob Simmons, dpw
  *Specifying language semantics and safety using Twelf  

1:50pm - 2:10pm,  Emily Huang, moses
  *Exploiting the Intrinsic Dimensionality of Data for Nearest-Neighbor Search 

2:10pm - 2:30pm,  Yesim Koman, aslp
  *Implementation and Analysis of an Expert Medical Diagnosis System for Psychological Disorders 

2:30pm - 2:50pm,  David Kaplan, njp
  Topology of Random Surfaces

2:50pm - 3:10pm,  Mark Melahn, schapire
  Machine Learning for Detection of Anomalous Network Traffic

3:10pm - 3:30pm,  Raymond Lenihan, rywang
  The Use of RAM Drives to Increase Performance in Peripheral Devices and Conserve Energy  

6:00pm - 6:20pm, Olawale Oladehin, bwk
  The Object Oriented Language Debate  

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Friday, 12/12


  Morning session: Room 401

9:00am - 9:20am,  Daniel Yehuda, schapire
  An General Financial Markets Simulator

9:20am - 9:40am,  Greg Prisament, af
  Global NPR Hatching 

9:40am - 10:00am,  James Niemasik, jjg@princeton.edu, ken, njp
  An EEG-based Alarm Clock 

10:00am - 10:20am,  Don Sheehy, wayne, njp
  The Complexity of Domino Tiling Problems

10:20am - 10:40am,  Lev Reyzin, schapire
  Analyzing Margins in Boosting 

10:40am - 11:00am,  Ryan Peterson, august
  Information Flow Security in Java  

11:00am - 11:20am,  Monte McNair, wayne
  Winning No Limit Texas Hold Em Tournaments 

11:20am - 11:40am,  Geoff Patterson, bwk 
  Olympic Swimming Database 


  Afternoon session: Room 401

2:40pm - 3:00pm,  Daniel Peng, dpw 
  *Functional languages and virtual machines

3:00pm - 3:20pm,  Josh Probst, wayne
  Graphing Thefacebook 

3:20pm - 3:40pm,  Joseph Bradley, mona
  Analysis of a Cross-Genomic Approach for Mapping Phenotypic Traits to Genes

3:40pm - 4:00pm,  Jonathon Epstein, rywang
  The Streaming I-Pod  

4:00pm - 4:20pm,  Jon Beyer, prc 
  Analysis of Musical Performances

4:20pm - 4:40pm,  Conall O'Callaghan, li 
  *Parallelizing Genomic Programs  

4:40pm - 5:00pm,  Matt Stanton, moses
  *Closing the Integrality Gap for Rank Aggregation 

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Additional info:

To sign up for talks and for the very latest schedule:
  http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~moses/04fIND/cal_talk.html

This file:
  http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~moses/04fIND/iw_sched.html

All the excellent project documents submitted by students:
  http://rywang.cs.princeton.edu:8000/Projects/04fIND/upload/

Independent projects root:
  http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~moses/04fIND/

Please remember to submit your slides to:
  http://rywang.cs.princeton.edu:8000/Projects/04fIND/upload/upload.html





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