Computer Science

In the 2009-10 academic year the Computer Science  Honors Program  began awarding Honors only to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2012-2013

• Brett Cooley, "Metis: Mocking Data for Usability & Privacy" (Honors) 
  Haining Wang + Gang Zhou, Ryan Vinroot 

2011-2012

• No Honors students this year

2010-2011

• Harry Tian Gao, "Protocol Design for Sensor Networks" (Honors)
  Qun Li + Michael Lewis, Weizhen Mao, Virginia Torczon

2009-2010

• No Honors students this year

2008-09

• Charles Liarakos, "Software Engineering of a Direct Search Package for Nonlinear Optimization" (Highest Honors)
  Virginia Torczon + Andreas Stathopoulos, Michael Lewis
  
• Robert Staubs, "Specialization Methods and Cataphoricity in Coreference Resolution" (High Honors)
  Xipeng Shen + Haining Wang, Ann Reed
  
• Benjamin Strahs, "Secure Passwords Through Enhanced Hashing" (Highest Honors)
  Haining Wang + Phil Kearns, Paul Davies
  

2005-06

• William Cline, "A Prototype for In Situ Packet Filtering" (High Honors)
  Phil Kearns + Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Rex Kincaid
• James Dzierwa, "A Power Model for Power-Aware Dynamic Thread Control in High-Performance Multiprocessor Systems" (Highest Honors)
  Dimitrios Nikolopoulos + Phil Kearns, Paul Heideman

2004-05

• Wyatt Chaffee, "A Shared Channel Technique for Optimal Performance in Optical Burst Shared Networks" (High Honors)
  Haining Wang + Bruce Lowekamp, Qun Li, Rex Kincaid
• Anne Huang, "Strategic Filtering and Analysis of TCP ApplicationTraffic for Improved Network Monitoring" (Honors)
  Bruce Lowekamp + Phil Kearns, Don Campbell
• Keywan Tabatabai, "Identifying Web Server's IP Fingerprint" (High Honors)
  Haining Wang + Xiaodong Zhang, Phil Kearns, Vladimir Bolotnikov
• George Zagaris, "Orthogonal Unstructured Mesh Generation for Highly Deformable Bodies" (Honors)
  Nikos Chrisochoides + Bob Noonan, Bruce Lowekamp, Michael Lewis

2003-04

• Benjamin Cox, "ConcernEditor: a Prototype Editor for Software Plans" (Highest Honors)
  D. Coppit
• Evan McCreedy, "A Fault-Tolerant and Adaptive Implementation of mpiBLAST for Large-Scale or Distributed Heterogeneous Clusters" (High Honors)
  D. Nikolopoulos

2002-03

• Xiomara Maya, "Multiple Sequence Alighment with MP-Score" (Honors)
  W. Mao
• Eric Davis Rozier, " Non-Parametric Estimatiom of the Cumulatine Intensity Function for a Non-Homogeneous Service Process" (Honors)
  L. Leemis
• Ryan Michael Shipley, "On Efficient Skyline Computation" (High Honors)
  P. Godfrey

2000-01

• Mark A. Fashing, "Adventures in Non-photorealism: Creating a Painterly Renderer" (Highest Honors)
  R. Prosl
• Eric Koskinen, "IP Substitution as a Building Block for Fault Tolerance in Stateless Distributed Network Services" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns

1999-00

• Adam P. Gurson. "Simplex Search Behavior in Nonlinear Optimization" (Highest Honors)
  V. Torczon

• Christopher M. Siefert. "Model-Assisted Pattern Search" (Highest Honors)
  V. Torczon

1998-99

• Elizabeth D. Dolan."Pattern Search Behavior in Nonlinear Optimization" (Highest Honors)
  V. Torczon
• Brandon H. Mitchell, "Casually Ordered Message Passing in MPI" (High Honors)
  P. Kearns

1997-98

• Brad Arkin, "Algebraic Structures in Feistel Ciphers and an Analysis of GOST" (Highest Honors)
  W. Bynum
• Jesse L. Chappell, "Unifying the Workstation Cluster: A Kernel-Level Facility for Remote Process Execution and Signaling" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns
• Paul N. Pruitt, "An Asynchronous Checkpoint and Rollback Facility for Distributed Computations" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns

1996-97

• Matthew Nash Schimid, "A Multi-Tasking Mobile Robot Operating System Supporting the Subsumption Architecture" (Honors)
  W. Bynum

1995-96

• Neal Cardwell, "Causally-Structured Output Streams for Distributed Computations" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns
• Nathan A. Carr, "Marching Pyramids: Reconstructing Isosurfaces with Body Centered Cubic Lattice Data" (High Honors)
  R. Prosl
  
• Brian Dewey, "Kernel-Level Implementation of an Encrypting FIle System" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns
• James Thomas Eanes, "2D Visualization Algorithms on Random Grids" (Honors)
  Richard Prosi

1994-95

• Craig Chaney, "The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Subsumption Architecture in Robotics Programming" (Honors)
  W. Bynum
• Heji Kim, "Markov Chain Compaction" (Highest Honors)
  G. Ciardo
• Tin Siladin, "A Scan Conversion Algorighm for Line Segments in 3D Discrete Voxel Space(High Honors)
  R. Noonan

1992-93

• Gregory S. Miller, "An Object-Oriented Framework for Compiler Construction" (High Honors)
  R. Noonan

1990-91

• Bruce R. Childers, "Program Source File Compaction" (Honors)
  P. Kearns
• Daniel W. O'Brien, (Honors)

1989-90

• Steven A. Bondi, "Priority Queue Algorithms and the Multi-Server Queue Model" (Honors)
  S. Park
• Stephen J. Harvey, "A Simulation Analysis of Mobile-Servers on a Congested Network" (High Honors)
  S. Park

1988-89

• Emily A. West, "A Blast Protocol for File Transfer in the Ethernet Environment" (High Honors)
  P. Kearns

1987-88

• Donna L. Wood, "Production Systems in Grammar Form" (Honors)
  R. Collins
• Michael C. Ryan,. "The Synthesis of Autonomous Navigation Systems for Mobile Robots" (High Honors)
  W. Bynum
• Evan R. Zweifel, "Extend: and Extensible Compiler System Based on Automatically-Generated Grammars" (High Honors)
  R. Collins

1986-87

• Christopher D. Payne, "Tangle: and Experimental Environment for Expert Systems Research" (High Honors)
  L. Morell
• Robert D. Rhoad, "A Semantically Driven Database Management System" (Honors)
  W. Bynum
• Curt A. Richter, "micPas: an Experiment in High Level Microprogramming" (High Honors)
  W. Bynum

1985-86

• Stephen H. Lucas, "Transformational Modeling in Diagnosing Novice Programmer Misconceptions"
  L. Morell
• Andrew V. Jewell, "PargenPlus: an Introspective, Knowledge-Based LR Parser Generator Supporting Direct State Access and Bi-Level Ambiguity" (High Honors)
  R. Collins
• Frederick Stevens, "Object Oriented, Graphics Based, Abstraction Language (OOGBAL)"
  L. Morell

1984-85

• Sandra L. Whitworth, "New Results on the Change-Making Problem" (High Honors)
  P. Stockmeyer