Well, I’ve started taking the “MS Thesis and Project Seminar” course at RIT, which is the first step towards registering my Thesis (or project) with the school and finishing off my degree!
I’m currently nursing two main ideas for projects related to Artificial Intelligence, and this past week I met with Jessica Bayliss to discuss the second idea and started work on a independent study focusing on refining this second idea and determining whether it’s Thesis material or not. The majority of what I did this week, and plan to do over the next week is researching the existing research in the area of Self-Organizing Maps and classifiers, including reviewing my previous research to refresh my memory.
I’ve also created draft documentation of both ideas as posts on my blog. I’ve linked to them below, but these posts posts will change a lot over the next couple of months, and are marked “private” and thus not accessible to the general public … sign up on the front page and drop me a line if you’re really interested.
- The first is a project idea for a Learning Notification System which would give more control over computer notifications and alerts to the end user. The primary product is a system akin to GROWL for the Mac, but with multiple levels of alerts, and a learning classification algorithm which allows the computer to intelligently avoid interrupting the user.
- The second idea is for a full-blown Thesis, which I’m not really sure I want to attempt. However, this idea for an SOM-based classifier could also be done as a project, and in either case would actually be fairly interesting. It revolves around the idea of building a classification system based on SOM algorithms. Currently there’s many parts to this idea, and it’s really possible that this could be fodder for several project-length experiments.
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