Chris Huyck's Projects

Currently the main focus of my research is on recurrent neural networks called Cell Assemblies. There is a lot on this in my open CA page. There are some particular problems that I'm interested in and are appropriate for MSc students:
- Compare CANT to an existing neuronal simulator such as GENESIS. There is a range of possible projects including reimplementing a simple CANT experiment using the GENESIS simulator.
- Fixing up the object (OOP) model for CANT. In particular the input class should be able to take advantage of inheritance but currently does not.
- Simple Data Mining tasks using CAs, in particular categorisation
- Implementing a pixel to line recognition layer
- Variable Binding
- Use of CAs to solve parsing problems
- Input from the environment and interaction with it
- Theoretical Foundations
- Topological Issues
- Datamining using CAs
XML as a useful Knowledge Representation Language. A traditional problem of AI has been how to represent knowledge. Frames, semantic nets, scripts and other representation formats have been proposed. For instance, the semantics or meaning of natural language text is very difficult to specify. XML provides a new approach to this problem; it provides a mechanism for syntactically specificying the meaning of a document. Using XML for a particular domain of text can provide an entry to a wide range of queries on a particular domain that would function with a very high degree of precision and accuracy.
Text Mining: I've got some text data that a company is interested in getting information from automatically. I think the best way to progress is use my existing parser (Plink) and generate a dictionary and output module for the current domain. Of course this is all flexible.
A better search engine
Games and AI: I'm interested in supervising the implementation of a bridge game. There may also be scope for a project involving interactive video games.
I have a lego robot on my shelf. I'd be interested in getting it to do interesting things. If you're interested in writing such a thesis, I'd be willing to supervise it.