Computer Science Senior Individualized Projects: Recent submissions

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    • Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and their Significance in Today’s World 

      Gurrola, David (2019)
      Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are becoming a more prominent part of everyday life. This paper wishes to address the functionality and applicability of AR and VR in an accessible form. There currently few articles ...

    • Record Linkage : Theory and Practice 

      Lindley, Michael (2016)
      Record Linkage concerns the consolidation of data records from disparate sources into one general file or database. We explore the common model design of a Record Linkage system by first considering data preprocessing ...

    • Technology's Effect on Cognitive Processes Throughout History 

      Hayajneh, Rana (2015)
      Technology's role and progress rate is increasing in today's society. It plays a major role in the daily life of most people. As the technologies we use interact with our cognitive processes, they influence the way we ...

    • Gaining Experience Through Real World Projects 

      Davison, Kevin (2016)
      Content management systems drive a lot companies. These systems merely bring about the basics when creating, storing and modifying data. In this paper, I will discuss my experiences creating tools to assist in bettering ...

    • ACEit! An Android app to Assist Children in Learning to Read English 

      Choe, Jae Hyun (2015)
      The goal of the project was to build an app that will set a solid foundation for an innovative and engaging gaming experience that will teach children to read English. Named, ACEit! (Assist Children in English-language), ...

    • A Life-changing Case Study in Mobile Application Development 

      Guedes, Guilherme Teles de Carvalho (2015)
      This paper is targeted to college students with the desire to build their own companies. I will do my best to provide relevant information that will help other students transform an idea into something people could use ...

    • Sentiment Analysis : Building and Testing Four Ensemble Classification Methods 

      Hudson, Bo (2015)
      The goal of this project was to build a sentiment analysis classification based upon Machine Learning. The classification of Twitter tweets and Facebook comments allow for better marketing analysis while also saving an ...

    • The Value of Experience for a Programmer 

      Joh, Kevin (2015)
      This is an experiential Senior Individualized Project. In it I recount my experience at VisTracks Inc. This recollection serves, to express personal growth and critical reflection. As a college student, I have found my ...

    • Being an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Kalamazoo College: Collaboration and Professional Development 

      Halsey, Torey (2018)
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    • Building an App in Eighty Days 

      Wieland, Raphael (2018)
      Just like in finance, the purpose of tracking your weightlifting 'gains' and 'losses' is so that you can see how they compound over time under different circumstances and in response to different factors. Historically, ...

    • AngularJS as an Introduction to Programming 

      Davenport, Natalie (2015)
      Over the course of this summer, I worked as a programming intern at BASIC, a human resources solutions company. One of my projects required that I learn AngularJS, a Javascript framework written to assist in the creation ...

    • Handbell Software for Kalamazoo College Change Ringing Guild 

      Pennington, Marlissa (2016)
      Handbells are a tradition on Kalamazoo Campus that is struggling to maintain enough members. A portion of the cause of this problem is the difficulty in learning handbells when there are not enough experienced ringers ...

    • Quantum Computing : "Because nature isn't classical, dammit" 

      Rutledge, Tim (2019)
      Some believe that the exponential growth in classical computing is coming to an end, and with the ongoing development of quantum computers, people may be tempted to consider them as potential replacements to our present ...

    • An Analysis of Mobile Application Development Methodologies 

      Samson, Tanush (2019)
      Looking at the trend over the past few years, it is clear that the need for mobile applications will only get larger from here on out. It is estimated that by the year 2020, mobile apps will generate $188.9 billion in ...

    • Exploring Viral Maturation Pathways Using Normal Mode Flexible Fitting Software 

      Rizzolo, Skylar M. (2019)
      The goal for this research project was to refactor a Normal Mode Flexible Fitting (NMFF) software package for use in research investigating the most energy efficient pathway between the native and mature states of a capsid, ...

    • Utilization of a Chrome Extension to Analyze the Web Browser Window 

      Shaker, Sharif (2019)
      While working as an intern at IBM, the author developed an application called Windex that was designed to search and monitor the global variables of a web browser. The goal of this paper is to outline the process of ...

    • The Challenges Faced by Digital Forensics Investigators In An Ever-Expanding Digital Age 

      Evelyn, Serita (2019)
      With technology continuing to grow at such a fast rate, investigators are being put to the challenge of collecting and analyzing evidence that potentially contains harmful information. Some of the challenges that they face ...

    • Product Development : A Case Study 

      Roberts, Scott (2019)
      Outlined in the following pages is a case study of Bundle, an incubated startup within IBM. The author worked to build out the initial product for launch in the fall of 2018. The creation of that product is the focus of ...

    • The Building of a Travel Application for Android Mobile 

      Thornton, Noah (2019)
      The author spent the summer building an Android mobile app that would allow users to find new places to travel to based on their individual travel preferences. The app would ask the user a series of questions about what ...

    • Sojourners : A Sojourn in Video Game Development 

      McCabe, Nicolas (2018)
      This paper details the development process for an indie action-adventure role player game called Sojourners. Sojourners started as a small passion project and grew to include a small development team. The focus of this ...