REU Site in Computer Systems

REU 计算机系统站点

• 批准号: 1063169
• 负责人: Zachary Dodds
• 金额: $ 36.75万
• 依托单位: Harvey Mudd College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-01 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1063169&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Computer; Systems

The Harvey Mudd College REU brings 10 undergraduates to Claremont in order to engage them in research and encourage graduate study in computer science. The program provides a microcosm of the graduate experience through a set of four projects under a broadly-scoped systems umbrella. The first develops algorithms for estimating cophylogenetic trees based on biological host/parasite data. Students' algorithms have been encapsulated in a software package named Jane, currently in use by several biological research groups. The second effort investigates approaches for automatically creating - and helping humans create - jazz. Its Impro-visor software has thousands of users and supports both the jazz and computational music communities. The third project creates efficient algorithms for memory management within garbage-collected computer languages such as Java, and the fourth project tests machine-learning and computer-vision-based algorithms that improve the state-of-the-art of performance of low-cost robot platforms, such as the iRobot Create.In addition to the contributions of these four projects within each of their domains of specialization, the REU's environment emphasizes the benefits of pursuing CS at the graduate level for participants who had not previously considered graduate work. Challenging research problems prompt students' guided development of research skills: investigation, presentation, and publication. Introductions by advisors transition into student-led talks and culminate with publications and conference experiences during or after the summer. Although proud of the academic contributions of the REU participants, the program's most important impact lies in its cultivation of the next generation of CS researchers.

哈维穆德学院 REU 将 10 名本科生带到克莱蒙特，以便让他们参与研究并鼓励研究生学习计算机科学。该计划通过广泛的系统框架下的一组四个项目提供了毕业生经验的缩影。第一个开发了基于生物宿主/寄生虫数据估计共系统发育树的算法。学生的算法已封装在名为 Jane 的软件包中，目前多个生物研究小组正在使用。第二项工作研究了自动创建并帮助人类创建爵士乐的方法。其 Impro-visor 软件拥有数千名用户，并支持爵士乐和计算音乐社区。第三个项目在垃圾收集计算机语言（例如 Java）中创建用于内存管理的高效算法，第四个项目测试基于机器学习和计算机视觉的算法，这些算法可提高低成本机器人平台（例如 iRobot Create）的最先进性能。除了这四个项目在各自专业领域内的贡献外，REU 的环境还强调了在计算机科学领域追求 CS 的好处。 研究生水平的参与者之前没有考虑过研究生工作。具有挑战性的研究问题促进学生研究技能的引导发展：调查、演示和出版。顾问的介绍过渡到学生主导的演讲，并在夏季期间或之后以出版物和会议经验达到高潮。 尽管 REU 参与者的学术贡献令人自豪，但该项目最重要的影响在于培养下一代计算机科学研究人员。