Student undergraduate research from years past

Computing Sciences students at Elon have had numerous opportunities to participate in experiential learning through research in recent years.

SURF presentation Spring 2008

• Internet Communities - presented by Svetlin R. Tzolov, Dr. Alex Yap, faculty mentor

SURF presentations Spring 2007

• Making Data Input And Retrieval More Effective For The Elon University Office Of Sponsored Programs - presented by Maggie L. Presley, Dr. Lynn Heinrichs, faculty mentor
• A Framework For The Implementation Of Human Cognitive Assessments On A Handheld Device - presented by Christopher J. Weitzen, senior Honors thesis; Professor Joel Hollingsworth, faculty mentor
• Clarifications And Extensions To Tactical Waypoint Graph Algorithms For Video Games - presented by Dustin E. White, Dr. Shannon Duvall, faculty mentor
• Student Awareness And Understanding Of Acceptable Use At Elon - presented by Brendan T. Wolf Dr. Lynn Heinrichs, faculty mentor

SURF presentations Spring 2006

• EU22: Simplifying Classroom Scheduling for Elon University's Registrar's Office - presented by Eric Hydrick, Dr. David Powell, faculty mentor
• Disaster Recovery for Small Businesses - presented by Svetlin Tzolov, Dr. Lynn Heinrichs, faculty mentor

SURF presentations Spring 2005

• Server-side Spam Filtering - An Analysis - presented by Eric M. Hydrick, Dr. Lynn Heinrichs, faculty mentor
• Content Display for Multiple Internet Platforms - presented by Ryan P. Markel, Professor Michele Kleckner, faculty mentor
• Computers You Can Talk To: Applying Machine Learning Techniques To
  > Natural Language Understanding - presented by Michael M. Richards, Professor Shannon Duvall, faculty mentor

SURF presentations Spring 2004

• Arbitrarily Extensible Ant Colony Optimization - presented by Ryan Barnard, Professor Joel Hollingsworth, faculty mentor
• A Visual Editor for the Creation of 3-Dimensional Game Environments - presented by Jeffrey Houston, Professor Joel Hollingsworth, faculty mentor
• Discovering Complex Networks in Open Source Project Development Teams - presented by Joseph Magyar, Dr. Megan Conklin, faculty mentor

Other student research

Several students have also presented their research at the ACM Southeast Region Chapter Meeting in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Students may also elect to participate in research opportunities off campus including ones supported by the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (REU).

The department recently offered research positions through a two year research contract from UNC. This program called "A Consortium to Promote Computational Science and High Performance Computing" started in June of 2004 and was led by Joel Hollingsworth and Dave Powell. During the summer of 2004, two students, Avery Edwards and Pramotte Malasitt, investigated the application of decision analysis tools to grid computing. Their work was leveraged in a special class taught in the Spring of 2005 called Intelligent Decision Making. Two full time summer research positions were available for the summer of 2005.

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