Cs488-2009

Put your name next to four of the chapters that you will be responsible for teaching the rest of us this semester with a presentation and short assignment. If one of the ones you were interested in is already taken please choose another in its place.

1. SIMULATION The Monte Carlo Method - Samuel
2. GAME TRESS The Minimax Method - Brad
3. MATHEMATICAL RESEARCH The Mandelbrot Set - Nate
4. GENETIC ALGORITHMS Solutions That Evolve - Brad
5. COMPUTER VISION Polyhedral Scenes - Brad
6. PERCEPTIONS A Lack of Vision - Nate
7. ANALOG COMPUTATION Spaghetti Computers - Sam Leeman-Munk
8. NEURAL NETWORKS THAT LEARN Converting Coordinates - Samuel
9. PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY Intractable Secrets - Samuel
10. NUMBER SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTING Chinese Arithmetic - Aaron
11. CELLULAR AUTOMATA The Game of Life - Sam Leeman-Munk
12. COOK'S THEOREM Nuts and Bolts - Aaron
13. SELF-REPLICATING COMPUTERS Codd's Machine - Sam Leeman-Munk
14. STORING IMAGES A Cat in a Quad Tree - Nate
15. THE SCRAM A Simplified Computer - Dylan
16. SHANNON'S THEORY The Elusive Codes - Aaron
17. NP-COMPLETE PROBLEMS The Tree of Intractability - Aaron
18. ITERATION AND RECURSION The Towers of Hanoi - Dylan
19. VLSI COMPUTERS Circuits in Silicon - Dylan
20. THE HALTING PROBLEM The Uncomputable - Sam Leeman-Munk
21. COMPUTER VIRUSES A Software Invasion - Brad
22. LOGIC PROGRAMMING Prologue to Expertise - Nate
23. RELATIONAL DATABASES Do-It-Yourself Queries - Samuel