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UG4 student project
A project suitable for an fourth year undergraduate student, which is done part-time over several months.
The School Seismology project (http://www.bgs.ac.uk/schoolseismology/) enables schools to detect signals from large earthquakes happening anywhere in the world. It is used to teach a range of basic science concepts in over 400 schools around the UK by detecting world earthquakes in the classroom using a simple seismometer system and exchanging Earthquake data with schools around the world.
Project status:
Finished
Degree level:
UG4
Background:
Knowledge of Linux essential. Experience with web service development useful.
Principle goal: to construct a data harvesting system with an associated semantic web-enabled store for genealogical data with a method for querying the data which you test using at least one query.
Project status:
Finished
Degree level:
UG4
Background:
Applied Databases; Data Integration and Exchange; Querying and Storing XML; Knowledge Modelling and Management courses are desirable but not critical for this project.
Carl was awarded both the Agilent Prize and the Class Medal for best performance in the BEng Electronics and Computer Science degree
To investigate the use of graphical user interface languages and their generators and use these in conjunction with the Rapid Development Tool for Job Submission Portlets (RAPID), which is being developed at the National e-Science Centre.
Note: Andrei's thesis was awarded a 91% and received the Best Undergraduate Project award sponsored by Microsoft
To perform data mining in the form of association rules on scientific data from a microarray study on Cystic Fibrosis, with the objective of evaluating and improving the mining algorithm.
Non-technical explanation of association rules on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_rule_learning
Cystic Fibrosis on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_fibrosis
Microarray on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray
To patch sshfs to make it work with Grid certificates, then install it on a Linux machine and mount a directory on a machine that is part of the National Grid Service.
Project status:
Finished
Degree level:
UG4
Background:
You must like hacking Linux kernels and understand the idea behind ssh authentication, and be a proficient C programmer.
