School of Computing, University of Utah
Computer Science Project Mentoring Portal
Information for the 2007-2008 Projects
Table of Contents
1 PROJECT IDEAS
The project ideas discussed were the following. We certainly hope that these will serve as good starting points for further discussions. Please send email to K12-outreach.cs.utah.edu for further information.
We will also be adding more information to this page soon.
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Measuring the energy consumption of various programs on laptops
- Devices to assist the visually handicapped (such as HTML tags
for webpages)
- Creating ``Myspace'' pages that might be confused with real pages
- Robots using stepper motors or Nitinol muscle: programming gaits
- User experience studies of Windows versus Linux
- Whether multicore laptops deliver more speed or better battery life
- Computing optimal distances from post offices to homes
- Studying the Collatz's problem
- Making wind-tunnels and studying aerodynamics
- The Carbon Impact of computers (how much energy they waste)
- Tracking versus non-tracking solar panels: how much more energy
through tracking
- Whether ads are effective and how much?
- Studies of drug resistance development in bacteria
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