Within these pages, we lay bare the best of undergraduate computer science research at the University of Toronto. For the budding researcher, we hope this will inspire and impel you to pursue the path of those published here; for the curious reader, we seek to clarify and distill, to further your interest in this varied and dynamic discipline.
This inaugural issue was made possible by dint of a tremendous effort from faculty and students alike. It was completed with great haste - its release coming barely four months after its humble beginnings - and its success is a testament to the quality of its contributors' work and its fastidious staff.
In particular, this review would not have materialized if not for these following individuals. They have my deepest thanks and eternal gratitude. Leanne Dawkins: for answering my incessant questions with indefatigable enthusiasm. Paul Gries and Marsha Chechik: for breathing life into a fledgling idea. Diane Horton: for bolstering this project during its tremulous start. Nina Haikara: for promoting this review like none other could have. Courtney Mogavero: for the amazing event at Google Toronto.
Sam Toueg: for your sage advice, your unwavering support, and your humor - I could not have asked for more. Jaren, Julia, Muhammad, and Sara: for the passion you brought during even the most difficult of times, and for your brilliance and infinite patience, of which I am in awe. It has been a pleasure.
Kawin Ethayarajh
Editor-in-Chief, RUCS
Jake Fear in Software Engineering : Visually Simulating Goal Models over Time
Ishan Thukral in Computational Biology : Using Android Wear to Detect Early Onset of Acute COPD Exacerbations
Kathy Ge, Sophia Huynh and Martin Petkov in Software Projects : SQL Visualizer
Sihan Zheng and Emmanuel Ifemade in Software Projects : Predicting Exam Results in an Introductory Level Computer Science Course
Christina Chung in Software Engineering : N-way Model Merging Game
Julia Gilenko in Profiles and Interviews : !Mediengruppe Bitnik: The Internet as an Artistic Medium
Jaren Kerr in Profiles and Interviews : Marc Andreessen: A Futurist and an Optimist
Kawin Ethayarajh in Software Engineering : Lifting a Model Transformation Language
Zhaowei Liu in Computer Vision : High-Accuracy 3D Scanning by Structured Light Transport
Ekansh Sharma in Computational Biology : Efficient Implementation to Identify Disease Mechanisms
Dan Plyukhin in Theory of Computation : Distributed Reference Counting for Asynchronous Shared Memory
Tim Alberdingk Thijm in Natural Language Processing : Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data: Corpus Refinement and Structural Topic Modelling
Yannie Lai, Fatema Chowdhury, Victoria Bukta and Tien-Che Lee in Software Projects : Collaborative Disease Diagnostics
Mohamed Abdalla in Natural Language Processing : Automated Classification of Discussion Forum Posts
Hengwei Guo, Oscar Chen, and Hubert Lin in Artificial Intelligence : An Intelligent Guidance System for People with Dementia in a Picture Description Task
Eleni Triantafillou in Artificial Intelligence : A Unifying Framework for Planning with LTL and Regular Expressions
Nick Frosst in Computational Biology : A New Similarity Score for Rare Disease Patient Matching: Exponential Back-off SimGIC
Yuanhao Wei and Kenneth D. Hoover in Theory of Computation : A Fast Single-Extractor Wait-Free Priority Queue
| Editor-in-Chief | Kawin Ethayarajh |
|---|---|
| Faculty Supervisor | Sam Toueg |
| Undergraduate Editors | Julia Gilenko |
| Jaren Kerr | |
| Design & Layout Director | Sara Tang |
| Layout Associate | Mohana Sarmiento |
| Webmaster | Muhammad Osama |