Multi-touch table color blending program
We use mobile applications and gaming in many of our courses. Students often complete independent projects tailored to their own interests. Students learn software analysis and design, project management, algorithmic design, database design, graphics programming, team work, computer security, quality assurance -- all of the necessary skills for software development. We just do it in a fun and exciting
way!
If you have an Android phone, you can download a couple of apps created by CSIS students from Google Play: “Inflatable Defense” and "Tilt Snake". If you have an iPhone, look for “My StuffFinder” on the iTunes store.
Want to play Connect Four? Click here to download the game, coded by Daniel Russel in the Spring 2013 AI class. Then unzip the file, and open "connect4.html" in a browser, and allow the Java application to run.
Each semester, CSIS students present their projects to the public, CSIS alumni and business partners.
Spring 2013 CSIS Artificial Intelligence projects:
Spring 2013 CSIS Software Engineering and Undergraduate Research Fellow projects:
- Josh Brummer,,Jousting (Bluetooth Anrdoid multiplayer game)
- Daniel Houle/Derek McNeil, UNK Book Exchange
- Tyler Neal, Stolen Computer Recovery/Tracking Software System
- Ben Versaw, File/Project Explorer/Management Software System
- Naoki Ishikawa, Ball Game Android App
- Spencer Knight, Machine Learning Front-end for Case-Based Reasoning System
- Kelsey Nuzum, Astrology Android App
- Ben Versaw, Efficiently Rendering Terrains, Undergraduate Research Fellowship project
Fall 2012 CSIS Senior projects:
- Melissa Costello, Sonya Harrell, Jackeline Galdamez, Rachel Decker presented the consolidated online inventory tracking/management website they created for the multiple store
locations of Bruce furniture.
- Scott Tallmage, Ryan Levell, Jacob Beck, Josh Brummer presented their mobile app. The idea is to cause
the other players to make their device move outside of a threshold to the tune
of music, and the last player standing wins.
- Nathan Huebert presented the
web site he created for Huebert Pianio Tuning & Repair.
- Mustafa Hayir, Austin
Hendrickson, David Hunter, Stephen Hunter presented their proof of concept lab network they created using
the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP). Lab machine will pull a lab
image from the terminal server and will run in either a fat (more locally run
apps) or thin (few locally run apps) depending on the capabilities of the local
processor.
Spring 2012 CSIS student projects:
- The CSIS 406 Server-side Internet Programming class presented their project, the Wobini Website for managing Wobini-based map projects.
- CSIS 441 Artificial Intelligence students completed individual projects. Jacob Beck developed a philosophy chat bot, Jacob Garabrant developed a sorting robot, Rikiya Ishizaki created a legal chat bot, Eric Jensen developed an AI to ‘solve’ the board game Ticket to Ride, Scott Tallmage developed an AI to ‘solve’ Sudoku, Ben Versaw developed an AI to generate maze-like levels for games, and Jeonghoon Yun developed an Monopoly-like game.
- Independent projects included an exploration of the server platforms for Fortune 500 companies by Michael Sall; an need/overview study of a Computer Forensics Program at UNK, by Michael Sall; an Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) project on experimenting with LED energy usage by Kelsey Nuzum; an URF project assessing case-base coverage using solution similarity by Tyler Adelung and an URF project; and an URF project on an aviation management information system by Kelsey Bard.
Fall 2011 CSIS senior student projects:
- Kelsey Bard, Tyler Adelung, David Gangwish, Daniel Farlin - Four CSIS Students Completed an Android malware and Android security research project.
- Tyler Branstiter and Eric Bergh - Created the Scatter Kindness Company (SKC) website: scatterkindness.com. SKC exists to demonstrate that kindness changes everything; to remind people daily of how their actions and words can impact others. Four friends started this clothing company after two of their friends committed suicide. To further strengthen their efforts at preventing suicide, SKC donates $1.00 to the Ganley Foundation for every shirt they sell. The Ganley Foundation is a non-profit organization that educates communities about depression and works to eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness so that people can receive the help they need.
- Michael Sall and Joel Meyer - Developed a business plan for SMB Technology Consulting, http://smbtc.us/, an IT Consulting Company. As part of their company, they created, Wobini, an Android map application for the UNK campus. News station 10/11 interviewed students about the UNK map application that they created.
- Jonathan Birbal - Developed a 3-D game using OpenGL.
In May 2010, CSIS received Kelly Grant funding for its proposal entitled, “Technology Transparency in Computer Science (CS), Computer Information Systems (CIS) and Visual
Communication and Design (VCD) Curricula." The project is with the Department of Art and Art History, and is lead by Dr. Sherri Harms, CSIS and Dr. Mark Hartman, Art & Art History. The proposal focuses on the creation of a new media lab that will ensure student and faculty can experiment and learn with cutting edge transparent technology.
Projects involving the New Media Lab:
Motion-sensing NERF turret
More Student projects:
