My Research Projects

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Senior Seminar Project


Los Alamos National Laboratory



During the Spring semester of my Junior year I did a semester long internship with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. My research delt with using Advanced Neural Network Techniques for Adaptive Noise Cancellation. I worked directly with one other student, Diana McSpadden, on this project. We used the programming language MatLab to design program and test our neural networks.


In addition to Diana and myself there were eighteen other students working at the lab for the spring semester. We took several different trips to different parts of the Southwest part of the country.


Los Alamos National Laboratory


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Senior Seminar Project


Senior Seminars are major projects or research paper conducted by the students in their Senior year at Blackburn College. The seminar for Computer Science Majors is a year long course. In the first semester students must design a project, and do a research paper in some field of Computer Science. In the second semester the students must implement the project designed in the first semester.

For my seminar I have decided to design and implement a system that will solve Tangram puzzles. Trying to implement a system that can solve any Tangram would take longer than a semester to implement, so I have decided to work on the square and some smaller puzzles that really aren't considered Tangrams. The programming language I'm going to implement my project in is Java developed by Sun Microsystems.


Senior Seminar

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