Honors

To graduate with honor in Computer Science, a student must complete a project and write a thesis. This is usually a two-year commitment. During her junior year, the student works with a faculty member to explore a topic in depth. Typical activities during that year include reading research papers, writing programs, and experimenting with ideas. At the end of her junior year, the student submits and defends an honors proposal. If this proposal is approved by the department, she will continue her research as a major part of her senior year, write a thesis, and present a thesis defense. Some honors students attend conferences and/or co-author papers with their mentors. See Honors Procedures for more information.

Honors Papers

Copies of student Honors Papers are kept in the Mount Holyoke College Library Archives and Special Collections, located on the Lower Level of Dwight. Honors papers are cataloged in the Five College Online Library Catalog.

As the following list of completed honors projects indicates, students have done research on a wide variety of topics. Information about current faculty and student research activities, can be found on the Faculty Research page.

These below are listed alphabetically by student name. Newly added theses are bolded.

  • Arnold, Carolin. "Machine Translation From English to German." 2002.
  • Bratkova, Margarita D. "Visual Quality of Computer Graphics and its Effect on Distance Judgements." 2001.
  • Cocozzella, Lisa. "Grammar and Transformation Rules for Syntactic Morphing." 1999.
  • Chuah, Mei, "Steering a robot in real time with a parallel system." Summa Cum Laude, 1993.
  • Crooks, Emily. "Using Author Level and Character Level Planning in Story Generation." Summa Cum Laude, 1998.
  • Dang, Estelle. "The Role of Familiar Size and Proprioception on Absolute Egocentric Distance Perception during Visual Motion." 2004.
  • Drew, Elizabeth Helen. "Computers in Higher Education." 1992.
  • Ekram, Lima. "An investigation into Rogue Programs with a Particular Emphasis on Computer Viruses." 1991.
  • Erickson, Sarah Taylor. "Experiments in Color Constancy." 2001.
  • Hotchkies, Lindsey. "Linking Language and Vision: the Perceptual Meaning of Noun Phrases." Summa Cum Laude 2001.
  • Jetcheva, Jorjeta. "NOW Distributed Supercomputers for Computer Vision." Summa Cum Laude, 1997.
  • Kapur, Tina. "Where Am I? - Using Vision to Localize a Robot." 1992.
  • Kolomiets, Marina. "Uncertainty in Expert Systems and Fuzzy Logic." 2001.
  • Lee, Hu Im. "Internet Transmission of Real-time MPEG Video." Summa Cum Laude, 1998.
  • Mohanty, Natasha. "Where is it? Locating objects using prepositional phrases via dialogue." 2003.
  • Mutsuddi, Adity, "The Effects of Texture Mapping Techniques on Slant Perception of Planar Surfaces Textured with Flat Textures". 2004.
  • Noll, Lindsey. "Immaculate Perception: Stereo Vision." 1998.
  • O'Brien, Larissa. "Playing by the rules: Complex Behavior in Artificial Populations." 1999.
  • Peeva, Maya G. "Image Matching in Stereo Vision." 2001.
  • Quattoni, Ariadna. "Using Natural Language Descriptions to Aid Object Recognition." Summa Cum Laude 2003.
  • Ramani, Preethi. "Software Agents for Electronic Commerce" Summa Cum Laude, 1997.
  • Ratan, Aparna Lakshimi. "Acquiring new knowledge about the environment using computer vision." Summa Cum Laude, 1992.
  • Roberts, Maxine. "Learning about the environment with computer vision using motion." 1995.
  • Saria, Suchi. Machine Learning... exact title to be added. 2004.
  • Sharmin, Sadia. "Face Recognition: Using Vision to Recognize Faces." 2001.
  • Siddiqi, Sabina. "Real-Time Interactive Raytracing in Distributed Environments for Virtual Reality Systems." 2003. 
  • Sisic, Azra. "Distributed Multimedia Systems Using DCOM with a look towards Quality of Service and Real Time Constraints." 2000.
  • Spellacy, Kerry A. "Protecting A Network Through the Use of A Firewall." 1998.
  • Subramanian, Sowmya. "Object-Oriented Database Systems: The Next Generation of Database Technology." 1996.
  • Tabani, Sanaa. "Attention Driven Rendering." 2003.
  • Wang, Ying. "Natural Language Understanding: Integrating Symbolic AI and Nerual Network Processing in Computer Understanding of Natural Language." 1996.
  • Xiao, Chen. "Morphing Simple Polygons." 1996.
  • Zollei, Lilla. "Place Recognition Using Color Region Analysis." Summa Cum Laude, 1999.