2011-2012
Fall Projects
Building Sandboxes: How I learned to stop worrying about malicious applications stealing my data
A computer science honors project looking into ways to sandbox applications and supply them with spoofed sensitive information (e.g., fake GPS location data).
Hiding Dissent: Censorship and Surveillance Resistant Communications
A computer science honors project based on modeling the TOR network and various attacks against it.
Translating Literary Style through Natural Language Generation
A computer science honors project looking into the idea of quantifying the literary style of a given author and reproducing that style in a text produced through natural language generation.
Spring Projects
Building Sandboxes: How I learned to stop worrying about malicious applications stealing my data
A computer science honors project looking into ways to sandbox applications and supply them with spoofed sensitive information (e.g., fake GPS location data).
Translating Literary Style through Natural Language Generation
A computer science honors project looking into the idea of quantifying the literary style of a given author and reproducing that style in a text produced through natural language generation.
Student/Faculty Research
Computer Science is a rapidly developing field, and our faculty are involved in diverse research areas within it. There are many opportunities for CS students to work directly with faculty on a number of research projects. Students are able to gain valuable experience while collaborating with their professors throughout their Oberlin careers. Most frequently, these research projects take place during the summer as part of the Oberlin Summer Research Institute. However, there are also opportunities to continue investigations during the year and as a Winter Term project. Oberlin students also participate in NSF funded research projects at other institutions during the summer as part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.
OCCaM
The computer science department is also involved in the Oberlin Center for Computation and Modeling (OCCaM). OCCaM is an interdisciplinary research organization founded in 2005 and is devoted to promoting computation and modeling at Oberlin. The center helps coordinate and organize the various researchers on campus who use scientific techniques of model building and computer data analysis. The faculty span both the natural and social sciences. There is a 64-node Beowulf cluster available for participant use.
