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Computer Science Department Documents [1]
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Computer Science Senior Individualized Projects [186]
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Recent Submissions
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APIs and Security
(2018)Over the summer of 2017 I worked at VisTracks as a server side developer. This company develops software for truckers that helps monitor their driving in order to ensure compliance with federal regulations that apply to ... -
Enterprise Level Quality Standards in Quicken Loans Technology
(2018)The internship I completed at Quicken Loans was in build and release pipeline, a part of an application lifecycle management team in Technology. Much of the work centers around quality and process improvement, including ... -
Racial Inequality in Computer Science : Tackling the Pipeline Problem and Actions toward Minority Retention
(2018)Computer Science and technology have ushered their ways into our everyday lives in the forms of televisions, social media, phones and cloud computing. Tech as an industry has since boomed along with these innovative gadgets. ... -
Virtual Reality : A Deeper Observation
(2017)Virtual Reality has been subject to a lot of attention these last few years following the impact it has had in the realm of entertainment. As the attention and media coverage continues to grow, a lot of people don’t really ... -
A Computational Analysis of World Happiness And It’s Implications
(2018)This paper examines the relationship between GDP, Gini Index, suicide rate, and the World Happiness Index. We find that the change in happiness in a country is correlated with a reduction in inequality and an increase in ... -
Probabilistic Chinese Segmentation : A Dictionary Driven Approach to Chinese Word Segmentation Using Text Preprocessors
(2018)This paper describes a Chinese word segmentation system based on dictionary driven probabilistic segmentation using trained data to calculate probability. The results of this system are compared to results from a Largest ... -
On the Creation and Development of the WHAT (Ware House Analysis Tool)
(2014)This Senior Individualized Project (SIP) is an in--‐depth report of my summer internship at MJS Packaging in Livonia, MI and of a tool I developed for their use. The tool is part of a ... -
Mapp : An Archaeological Mapping Application
(2018)The author describes the process of designing a mobile phone app to assist archaeologists in the process of documenting and storing their field work digitally. -
Scalability and Asynchronicity Understanding and building scalable applications : a case study with Node.js
(2015)Scalability is a term used frequently in the technology industry. However, its significance covers a broad range of topics. Scalability can take on different meanings when defined in varying contexts, however the basic ... -
Symmetry Groups of the Plane
(2014)There are many kinds of symmetry, from symmetry in math to symmetry in art to symmetry in the natural world. The kind that has always interested me is that which can be found in some of the works of M.C. Escher, the Alhambra, ... -
Improving Corporate IT Workflow through Software Development
(2018)I spent the summer months of 2017 building an inward facing kiosk application for Avalara’s IT department in Seattle, WA. The purpose of the application was to create a user interface that would streamline the process for ... -
How Happiness is Made : Determining How Economic Policy and Cultural Standards Predict Happiness
(2018)The analysis of happiness and how it can be predicted by economic and social factors may allow policy makers to make informed and data-driven decisions in the future. In order to determine whether or not these factors can ... -
Business Process Management : Benefits and Implementation
(2017)I spent last summer working to establish a Business Process Management program at AmeriFirst HomeMortgage Company. The goal was to find efficiency improvements by mapping processes within the company. To complete this task, ... -
Utilizing a Database to Support Consulting Engagements
(2015)I spent the summer of 2014 working as an intern in Chicago, Illinois at Crowe Horwath, a leading Public Accounting and Consulting firm. My internship experience focused on work using business applications such as SQL and ... -
Updating Existing Technologies at HUMANeX Ventures : From The Perspective of An International Student
(2018)This paper intends to give the reader an understanding of how it is working at a small company in the United States for the first time, and the importance of believing in one’s ability to learn and adapt quickly in such ... -
Password Security
(2018)This paper dives into the making of passwords. How they are used, what makes a strong password, how to make a strong password and the creation of password management in systems will be covered in this paper. This knowledge ... -
Advancement of Self and the Team : Agile Software Development as a Teaching Experience
(2015)As a topic on which to write my SIP, I completed an internship over the summer at Vistaprint, a company that specializes in custom printing. Vistaprint’s base of operations in North America is in Lexington, Massachusetts. ... -
Experience Working in a Small Tech. Firm : The Work Environment, Advantages, and Challenges
(2017)The author describes the experience of working as an intern at Level Data in Kalamazoo, a discussion of the software used and projects completed, including writing documentation. -
Machine Learning and Epilepsy: Classifying Epileptic Brain States Using Sugihara Causality Networks
(2017)Epilepsy is a brain disease that profoundly affects the personal lives of its patients as well as the health care system needed to address it. Machine learning is a field of computer science experiencing a renaissance ... -
Pause : Android Mobile Application
(2017)Pause is an Android mobile application developed by the author in an attempt to address the rising social problems caused by modern social networking applications. The following contents will cover brief history of ...