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student:research [2020/01/22 11:40] – [Honors Theses] add link to capstone page lam2modepartment:research [2021/10/01 13:27] – Add links from what-is-research talk lam2mo
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 The honors thesis generally consists of a three-semester sequence beginning in the Spring of your Junior year, where you enroll in a 1-credit CS499A course and work with your faculty advisor to do some preliminary research and write a project proposal. In the Fall of your Senior year, you enroll in a 3-credit CS499B and do the majority of the work. Finally, in the Spring of your Senior year, you enroll in a 2-credit CS499C and finish any leftover work while writing and finalizing your final report and/or software deliverable. You will also present your work as part of the research seminar series in your final semester. The honors thesis generally consists of a three-semester sequence beginning in the Spring of your Junior year, where you enroll in a 1-credit CS499A course and work with your faculty advisor to do some preliminary research and write a project proposal. In the Fall of your Senior year, you enroll in a 3-credit CS499B and do the majority of the work. Finally, in the Spring of your Senior year, you enroll in a 2-credit CS499C and finish any leftover work while writing and finalizing your final report and/or software deliverable. You will also present your work as part of the research seminar series in your final semester.
  
-If you are interested in this option, you should find a project or problem that you'd like to work on and request a meeting with a faculty member who might be interested in advising you. You should also look at the [[student:honors_capstone:start|CS Honors Capstone Guidelines]].+If you are interested in this option, you should find a project or problem that you'd like to work on and request a meeting with a faculty member who might be interested in advising you. You should also look at the [[department:honors_capstone:start|CS Honors Capstone Guidelines]].
  
 ===== Independent Study ===== ===== Independent Study =====
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 Of course, you can also always contribute to a project without receiving any academic credit. There are other rewards, such as the experience itself as well as a nice thing to put on your resume. If a project has funding there is also occasionally the opportunity to earn a bit of part-time income as a student research employee. All of these should be discussed individually with a faculty member that you'd like to work with. Of course, you can also always contribute to a project without receiving any academic credit. There are other rewards, such as the experience itself as well as a nice thing to put on your resume. If a project has funding there is also occasionally the opportunity to earn a bit of part-time income as a student research employee. All of these should be discussed individually with a faculty member that you'd like to work with.
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 ====== Participating Faculty ====== ====== Participating Faculty ======
  
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   * [[https://hcientist.cs.jmu.edu/|Prof. Stewart]]   * [[https://hcientist.cs.jmu.edu/|Prof. Stewart]]
   * [[https://w3.cs.jmu.edu/weikleda|Prof. Weikle]]   * [[https://w3.cs.jmu.edu/weikleda|Prof. Weikle]]
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 +====== Groups/Labs ======
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 +  * [[https://w3.cs.jmu.edu/lam2mo/lab.html|High Performance Analysis]]
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 +====== Links ======
 +  * [[https://cseweb.ucsd.edu//~wgg/CSE210/howtoread.html|How to Read a Research Paper]]
 +  * "[[http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html|Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn’t learn until later]]"
  
 ====== Active Projects ====== ====== Active Projects ======
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   * FloatSmith repository: [[ https://github.com/crafthpc/floatsmith | GitHub ]]   * FloatSmith repository: [[ https://github.com/crafthpc/floatsmith | GitHub ]]
   * Status: Ongoing and looking for new students!   * Status: Ongoing and looking for new students!
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 +===== ExamGen =====
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 +Writing exams is a drudgery for most professors. Often, problems must be revised or re-parameterized to avoid repeating a previous semesters' question verbatim. Faculty in Computer Science are uniquely positioned to avoid some of this monotony because we are accustomed to writing scripts and programs to automate a process. This project aims to help automate the generation of new exams using a combination of question banks, scriptable questions, and potentially some application of machine learning to balance the length and difficulty of an exam.
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 +  * Faculty contact: Dr. Lam
 +  * Status: On hold temporarily, but looking for new students to re-activate it!
  
 ===== Less-Java ===== ===== Less-Java =====