Undergraduate Research Activities

Computer Science Department

St. Bonaventure University

1990 - Present

 

 

SoundQ:  Software for Playback and Editing of Theatrical Sound Cues

Richard Zuber ‘07

with Dr. David Levine and Dr. Edward Simone (Visual Arts)

Honors Project

2006-07 Academic Year

 

vRobot: A kRobot Simulator

Greta Heissenberger ‘05

            With Dr. Dalton Hunkins and Dr. David Levine

            Honors Project

            2004-05 Academic Year

 

The Corona Project

Steve Gewand ‘05

Greta Heissenberger ‘05

Paul Wager ‘05

with Dr. Steven Andrianoff and Dr. David Levine

IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant

Summer, 2003, 2004

 

Scout: A Disaster Scene Mapping Agent 

Jamie Casilio '03

Matt Cowles '03

with Dr. Robert Harlan and Dr. David Levine
NSF CCLI-AI Grant 9980999

Summer, 2002
 

A Campus Virtual Tour

Steve Frusciante '02 

Adam Jester '02

Nathan Wagner '05

with Dr. Dalton Hunkins and Dr. David Levine
Spring/Summer, 2002
 

A Robust Mapper of Unknown Environments

Josh Goodberry '02 

Mike Neel '02

Brian Zimmel '02

with Dr. Robert Harlan and Dr. David Levine
NSF CCLI-AI Grant 9980999

Summer, 2000

 

Flaky: Robot Navigation of Unknown Environments
Catherine Mellon '01

Brian Zimmel '02

with Dr. Robert Harlan and Dr. David Levine
NSF CCLI-AI Grant 9980999
Summer, 2000

 

The Khepera Robot and the kRobot Class: A Platform for Introducing Robotics in the Undergraduate Curriculum

Shelley McClarigan ’00 

32nd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

with Dr. Robert Harlan and Dr. David Levine

February, 2001

 

 

BARD: The Bonaventure Automated Robotic Delivery

Shelley McClarigan '00

Honors Project

            with Dr. Robert Harlan

            1999 -- 00

 

A C++ Preprocessor for Advanced Placement Exam-Compliant Code

Ryan Henning ’99

Honors Project

            with Dr. Dalton Hunkins and Dr. Steven Andrianoff

            1998 -- 99

 

Interactive Interfaces

Shelley McClarigan ’00

University of Iowa

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates

            Summer, 1998

 

Belief Consistent Multilevel Secure Database

Shelley McClarigan ’00

University of Alabama

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates

            Summer, 1998

 

Controlling an Autonomous Robot Using Fuzzy Logic Rules

Michelle Conway ’98

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Department of Energy Research Semester

            Fall, 1997

 

Real-time Image Processing for Robot Navigation

Michelle Conway ’98

University of Alabama

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates

            Summer, 1997

 

Investigations of Fuzzy Logic-Based Algorithms for Robotics Insertion Tasks

Dennis Patrone ’96

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Department of Energy Research Semester

            Spring, 1996

 

Parallel Threads: Parallel Computation Laboratories for CS 3 and CS 4

Joe Akulis ’94

            with Dr. Robert Harlan

            SIGCSE Bulletin, 26, 1, March 1995

 

An X-Window Interface for Chinese Checkers

Dennis Patrone ’96

Young Scholar's Fellowship

St. Bonaventure University

            Summer, 1994

 

Term Indexing for a Document Retrieval System

Scott Alexander ’95

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates

Syracuse University

            Summer, 1994

 

UNIX System Security

Shane Amante ’94

            with Dr. Steven Andrianoff

            Spring, 1994

 

Parsing as Search: An Easy to Understand RTN Interpreter

David Patrone ’93

            with Dr. Robert Harlan

            SIGCSE Bulletin, 26, 3, September, 1993

 

Tracking DNA Patterns

Shane Amante ’94

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Department of Energy Research Semester

            Fall, 1993

 

Graphical Representation of Micromagnetic Vector Fields

Dawn Galayda ’94

Data Storage Systems Center

Carnegie Mellon University

            Summer, 1993

 

Dynamic Algorithm Visualization

Jason Ditzel ’93

            with Dr. Dalton Hunkins

            National Science Foundation Project

            Summer, 1993

 

Solving the Inverse Kinematics Equation for Redundant Manipulators

David Patrone ’93

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Department of Energy Research Semester

            Fall, 1992

 

Automated Student Auditing System

Joseph Akulis ’94

David Patrone ’93

            with Dr. Robert Harlan

            St. Bonaventure University Grant

            Summer, 1993

 

Automated Bacteria Recognition: A Neural Network Case Study

Gerard Manko ’91

Honors Project

            with Dr. Robert Harlan

            April, 1991

 

Bona Blocks World: A Problem Solving System with Natural Language Capability

John Andrews ’90

Cynthia Lawton ’90

            with Dr. Robert Harlan

            April, 1990