Thesis Ideas

I am looking for students interested in any of the following areas for thesis projects.

• Smalltalk
  • Work on projects to support Pharo
  • Work on Smalltalk-based web delivery environments
• Software Reliability
  • Extend Kelda's work on Java runtime modifications to support probabilistic program execution
  • Build test environment that runs domain discovery in parallel over a block of machines - in Smalltalk or possibly Java
• Educational Software
  • Upgrade the Alice Pascal programming environment
• Compilers:
  • Experiments with my Java Compiler
  • Experiments with modifications to the gcc compiler
• Formal Methods:
  • Implement a Funmath system.
• Programming-Languates/Emulators/Program-visualizers:
  • Scheme interpreter/algorithm animation in ML - 1 or 2 students
  • Communications protocol implementations for emulator
  • work on visual programming languages (see Flave as a starting point)
• Functional programming:
  • Implementation of a Postscript Interpreter in CAML - 1 or 2 students
  • Implementation of parts of the Stanford Graph Base in CAML or Scheme - 2 or 3 students
  • Implementation of TeX in CAML - 2 or 3 students
• Graphics
  • Experiments with modifications to the X libraries
  • Work on Multi-media languages and course delivery
  • Building simpler graphic library (like Tk) for X/Unix and Macintosh and Microsoft Windows
  • Graphics Applications - any number of students
• WWW and Browser programming:
  • Development of WWW course delivery - any number of students
  • Application development with XUL
• Operating Systems:
  • I remain interested in building FunOS, but I don't really have the energy this year
  • as part of that project, I'm interested in people building almost any standard utilities in Scheme
• GNU software:
  • things on the GNU Priority Projects List, where the idea would be to produce free implementations (where ``free'' is as defined in the GNU pages)
• Applications development (probably my least interest):
  • Java Application Development - any number of students
  • Development of a freely distributable word processor in C - 1 or 2 students
  • Parallel development of a freely distributable word processor in ML - 1 or 2 students
• Other - make a suggestion

Past and current Thesis student research/projects I have supervised