Project Ideas, Fall 2009
Dr. Beck's List

1. Automatic photo labeling based on inferred content. See Kodak Research. See Henry Lauck.
2. Wireless sensor networks
   • real-time data visualization
   • RFIDs as sensors
3. Social networking issues, and specifically,
   • Network presence manager for those with identities on several networks.
   • Network modeling
   • Data mining from presence information
4. Sphere packing problems approached through
   • heuristic programs
   • genetic algorithms
5. Reputation services: ways of conveying the integrity of a website beyond the recognition of the URL. In general, we trust target.com or wikipedia.com but we probably wouldn't trust geeks.com or jokesonyou.com. Could geeks.com include a web service that would attest to its integrity? What would that service look like?
6. Natural algorithm discovery and analysis
7. Natural language investigations using a readily available corpus