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HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CS Projects/Groups

Harvard Economics and Computer Science Group

Harvard University Computer Graphics

Theory of Computation Group

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Princeton UNIVERSITY

Research Areas

Research Projects

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BERKELY UNIVERSITY

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UC Berkeley

CS Research Areas

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CONNECTICUT COLLEGE

Computer Networking and Systems. Click here for additional research topics.

Sound and Audio Signal Processing. Click here for additional research topics.

Virtual Reality and Visualization. Click here for additional research topics.

Arificial Intelligence and Robotics. Click here for additional research topics.

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current projects

AudioPint

The reinvention of the musician's electronic toolbox: open, inexpensive, and extendable.

David Merrill and David Bouchard in collaboration with Ben Vigoda

Augmented Mirror

A mirror which also reflects intangible information about yourself

David Bouchard and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Sajid Sadi, Enrico Costanza

Embodied Emergence

How we can leverage emergent patterns to create visual and sonic textures that can be directly manipulated by users.

David Bouchard and Pattie Maes

Flexible Urban Displays

A flexible and modular LED-based display surface.

David Bouchard and Sajid Sadi in collaboration with Orkan Telhan

Influence

Influence is an interactive artwork visualizing collective behavior in a social network

Orit Zuckerman, Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes

Invisible Media

Invisible Media can augment objects around us to make them sensitive to our attention

David Merrill and Pattie Maes

ioMaterials

Using collocated input and output to create interfaces that provide interactivity through the materials that make up our world

Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes

Moving Portrait

A sensate evocative portrait that reveals different sides of its own personality to the viewer based on viewer behavior.

Orit Zuckerman and Pattie Maes

Portrait of Cati II

Portrait of Cati 2 is an homage to the project "Portrait of Cati" done by Stefan Agamanolis.

Orit Zuckerman, Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes

Pulp-Based Computing

Pulp-Based Computing is a series of explorations that combine smart materials, papermaking and printing.

Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Joanna Berzowska and Lyndl Hall

Quickies: Intelligent Sticky Notes

Post-it notes that can be searched, located and can send reminders and messages, and help us to seamlessly connect our physical and informational experiences.

Pranav Mistry and Pattie Maes

ReachMedia

A system that supports on-the-move interaction with every day objects

Assaf Feldman, Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes

reAcoustic eGuitar

Googling, sharing & downloading acoustic guitar to be 3D printed .

Amit Zoran

Relational Pillow

With the Relational Pillow project, we're trying to provide a simple, intimate, and personable communication medium between loved ones.

Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Amir Mikhak

Shutters

Shutters is a soft kinetic membrane for environmental control and communication.

Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Steve Helsing

Siftables

Siftables aims to enable people to interact with information and media in a physical, natural and intuitive manner.

David Merrill and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Jeevan Kalanithi

Spotlight

Spotlight is about an artist's ability to create a new meaning using the combination of interactive portraits and diptych or polyptych layouts.

Orit Zuckerman, Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes

Sprout I/O

Sprout I/O is a kinetic fur that can capture, mediate, and replay the physical impressions we leave in our environment.

Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes

subTextile

A construction kit for computationally enabled textiles

Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes

the Sound of Touch

A new instrument for manipulating digital sound that utilizes our intuitions about the sonic properties of materials.

David Merrill in collaboration with Hayes Raffle, Roberto Aimi

Touch-based Personalization

A touch-based personalization system designed to interact with ubiquitous ioMaterials interfaces

Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes

old projects

CASY: Contextual Asynchronous System

CASYis a communication technology integrating audio/video messaging, asynchronous communication, and context-based delivery

Orit Zuckerman and Pattie Maes

Collective Memory/Collective Intelligence

Interfaces that allow people to benefit from the knowledge and experience of others

Xinyu H. Liu and Pattie Maes

Initimate Interfaces for Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

"Intimate interfaces" are discreet interfaces that allow interaction with mobile devices through subtle gestures and peripheral cues

Enrico Costanza and Pattie Maes

Intimate Communication Armband

A small wireless device embedded in an armband allows to interact with mobile devices in a subtle and unobtrusive way

Enrico Costanza and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Rebecca Allen (UCLA), Sam Inverso (ANU) and Alberto Perdomo

Object Awareness

Allow a user to gather personally relevant information about and interact with inanimate objects

David Gatenby and Pattie Maes

Playful Spaces

Immersive environments that allow a person to interact with a system or simulation in a natural way

Pattie Maes and David Gatenby in collaboration with Benjamin Buchwald and Ron MacNeil

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WARWICK

Research Groups

The department's research is conducted within groups of staff and students with common interests. The research groups are indicated below, along with some keywords illustrating the range of expertise within each group.

Algorithms and Complexity	combinatorial algorithms; randomised algorithms; approximation algorithms; game theory; parallel computation
Computational Biology	neuroscience; biological networks; systems biology
Formal Methods	logics and automata; formal verification and synthesis; probabilistic, real-time, and hybrid systems; quantum information processing; fault tolerance and security
High-Performance Systems	performance analysis; performance tools; distributed architectures
Human Aspects of Computing	history of computing; empirical modelling; interactive environments
Intelligent and Adaptive Systems	adaptive hypermedia; pedagogic architectures; relational and temporal data mining; web personalization; agent-based systems; educational technology
MIMIC	applications of machine learning, image analysis and pattern recognition methods to medical information and medical imaging
Signal and Image Processing	multiresolution signal representations; image analysis; multimedia standards; watermarking

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Computing Department Lancaster University

Research themes

Research in the department is organised as a series of closely related themes:

Collectively, these research themes provide comprehensive coverage of the major technologies and techniques underpinning contemporary computer systems (from low level networking aspects to HCI issues).

There is extensive overlap between these themes and new areas of work such as aspect- orientation, peer-to-peer systems and grid computing cut across the boundaries of these areas.

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THE UNIVERSITY of HULL

Simulation and Visualization Research Group

This group pursues basic research into visualization, virtual environments, haptics, physical based modelling, simulation, image registration, image and sensor technology, etc. Together these capabilities allow the group to provide innovative solutions to industrial and healthcare problems. (SimVis Home)

Distributed Reliable Intelligent Systems (DRIS)

The group performs high quality, internationally recognised research in the area of distributed, reliable and intelligent control and cognitive systems, with a focus on safety-critical embedded and distributed information systems. We address a number of issues arising in the development and assessment of such systems by developing novel techniques and tools that aim to improve the quality and dependability of systems via advanced safety and reliability analysis, multi-criteria design optimisation, improved testing, enhanced security and assurance of data integrity. Our work in these areas is underpinned by basic and applied research in areas of system and software engineering (system and failure modelling, algorithms for safety and reliability analysis, automated testing) (DRIS Home)

Internet Computing and Technology Research Group

This group studies engineering, evaluation methods, architectures and protocols relating to the Internet and E-business systems.

(IC Home)

Cartographic Information Systems Research Group

Cartographic Information Systems Research Group which was active in the Department of Computer Science, University of Hull, from June 1985 until June 2003. (CISRG Home)

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DEPARTMENT OF ECE

Human-robot interaction

Augmented reality for robot developers

Toby Collett (PhD)

Previous projects include robot visualisation environments, and a virtual robot face with speech output. We plan further projects in augmented reality for human-robot interaction. Future projects include using game engines to create complex robot visualisation environments.

Some joint projects include emotional robotic speech with Dr Catherine Watson in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and emotional facial expressions with Liz Broadbent in the Department of Psychological Medicine.

Robot programming systems

Programming languages for mobile robots	Geoff Biggs (PhD)
A cognitive approach to programming by demonstration	Slobodan Vukanovic (ME)
Robotic IDE tool

The robotics IDE project is currently part of the tracking and visualisation project above and we intend to further develop the programming and IDE aspects with future projects. Previous projects include distributed programming frameworks by Oscar Kuo, Evan Woo, and Barry Hsieh which used CORBA as the distributed programming technology. Toby Collett and Geoff Biggs have contributed to the open source Player and Stage project. A number of future projects will extend the language constructs used for robot programming.

Dr Ian Warren in Computer Science is working with us regarding dynamic software reconfiguration.

Applications

Intelligent autonomous robotic helicoptor for agricultural applications	Rick Chen (PhD)
A mixed reality approach to robotic helicopter simulation for agricultural applications	Ian Chen (PhD)
Implementation of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM)	Alan Yang (ME)

The helicopter project will evaluate our human-robot interaction work and our robot programming systems in an outdoor application to create an assistant for farmers.

Previous work

Calibrating augmented reality systems for robotics	Kathy Fung
Recognising human facial expressions in human-robot interaction	Dinuka Jayamuni and Arpit Yadav (BE)
Position tracking and visualisation for robot programming	Gareth Shaw and Mike Tsai (BE)
Programming robots by demonstration	Yifan Jiang and Ian Chen (BE)
Dynamically reconfigurable robots	Jack Yu (ME)
Expressive synthetic speech	Sigrid Roehling (PhD)

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UNIVERSITYof BRISTOL

Research Areas

An introduction

The department groups its research into the following themes, each one consisting of a set of more specific topics:

Four research centres perform research in collaboration with other departments and organisations:

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CARDIFF

Research Groups

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UNIVERSITY of BIRMINGHAM

Research themes

Artificial Intelligence

Nature-inspired computation

Computing and Systems

Theoretical Computer Science

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UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE

Research groups

Artificial Intelligence Group
Theory and applications of intelligent systems.
Automated Reasoning Group
The development and application of theorem proving methodologies.
Natural Language and Information Processing Group
Natural language processing. Particular emphasis on representing and reasoning about meaning; on dialogue and discourse; and on large-scale text processing for language learning, information retrieval etc.
Cambridge Programming Research Group
Programming language design, compilers, interpreters, virtual machines, portable target codes, program analysis, program transformations and optimisation.
Graphics & Interaction Group (Rainbow)
Computer graphics, image processing, human-computer interaction.
Computer Architecture Group
Microarchitecture, VLSI techniques and design, electronic CAD, secure hardware.
Security Group
Security, cryptology, and their applications.
Systems Research Group
Networks, operating systems, multimedia, distributed systems, and computer architecture.
Digital Technology Group (formerly LCE)
All aspects of technology in particular for pervasive, sentient and mobile computing and communication systems.
Theory and Semantics Group
Mathematical models for the behaviour of hardware and software.