Major Qualifying Projects Advised

Chris Burgess and Nathan Roy. Quantifying the Effect of Latency on Game Actions in BZFlag, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-LG08, Computer Science Department, Spring 2009. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/precision-deadline/

Yong Heng Wu Fang and Nathan T. Tibbetts. An Analysis of Playability and Fairness for Group Game Server Selection, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-GS06, Computer Science Department, Spring 2007. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/game-server/

Geoffrey Verbeke and Michael Wood. The Effects of Display Setting in Different Visual Perspectives on Performance in Games, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-CG06, Computer Science Department, Spring 2007. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/fr-rez-perspective/

Michael Lundy and Timothy Walsh. A First-Person Perspective Virtual Tour, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-WE05, Computer Science Department, Spring 2006. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/wpi-tour/

Evan Desmarais and Gregory Kern. GUI Design for Gem Lite on a Pocket PC, Major Qualifying Project MQP-REK-0097, Computer Science Department, Spring 2006. Sponsored by General Dynamics Corporation. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Sponsored by General Dynamics Corporation. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/gd-pda/

Matthew K. Brennan, Robert M. Shaw III, and Nate Gershaneck. Network Analysis of Nintendo DS Traffic, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-HH05, Computer Science Department, Spring 2006. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/ds/

William Lee and Gergory Ratner. Cellular Phone Networking, Major Qualifying Project MQP-REK-0094, Computer Science Department, Fall 2005. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/wwan/

Andrew Brommelhoff, Jesse King, Brian Platt, and Allen Seitz. Improving Scalability in an Online Game, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-MM04, Computer Science Department, Spring 2005. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/mmo/

Steven Gargolinski and Christopher St. Pierre. Better Game Server Selection, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-SS04, Computer Science Department, Spring 2005. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/musst/

Dimitri Stancioff, Jeremy Lerch, Michael Milkin and Stephen Goranson. PDA Network Manager, Major Qualifying Project MQP-REK-0093, Computer Science Department, Spring 2005. Sponsored by General Dynamics Corporation. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/gd-snmp/

Zhuo Yao Chen and Aram Armen Duylan. Streaming MPEG Animations on Mobile Devices, Major Qualifying Project MQP-EOA-0005, Computer Science Department, Fall 2004. (Advisors Emmanuel Agu and Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/stream-mpeg/

Colin Bourassa, Mark Figura, and Mike Scaviola. Adaptive Forward Error Correction for MPEG Streaming Video, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-AF03, Computer Science Department, Spring 2004. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/afec/

Jonathan Riedel and Zach Brown. The Evolution of Spam and SpamAssassin . Major Qualifying Project MQP-CEW-0301, Computer Science Department, Spring 2003. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Craig Wills) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/spam-2/

Alex Kinney and Minh Huynh. Generic SCSI Command Generator, Major Qualifying Project MQP-REK-0090, Computer Science Department, Spring 2004. Sponsored by General Dynamics Corporation. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/gd-scsi/

Keith Bonneau, John Chrzanowski and Craig O'Brien. Modifying the SCSI/Fibre Channel Block Size, Major Qualifying Project MQP-REK-0089, Computer Science Department, Spring 2004. Sponsored by General Dynamics Corporation. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/gd-fc/

Tom Beigbeder, Rory Coughlan, Corey Lusher, and John Plunkett. The Effects of Packet Loss and Latency on Player Performance in Unreal Tournament 2003, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-NG03, Computer Science Department, Spring 2004. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Emmanuel Agu) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/ut2003/

Todd DeSantis and David Loose. TCP Traffic Analysis, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-MT03, Computer Science Department, Fall 2003. Sponsored by Motorola. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/motorola/

Joe Chiarella and Jason O'Brien. An Analysis of Spam Filters. Major Qualifying Project MQP-CEW-0203, Computer Science Department, Spring 2003. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Craig Wills) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/spam/

Paul Tyler, Rob Clein and Joeng Kim. Beowulf Load Balancing. Major Qualifying Project MQP-DXF-0301, Computer Science Department, Spring 2003. (Advisors Mark Claypool and David Finkel) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/pants-balance/

Eric Girard, Nathan Sheldon and Seth Borg. The Effect of Latency on Performance in Warcraft III. Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-NG02, Computer Science Department, Spring 2003. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Emmanuel Agu) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/war3/

James Nichols and Marc Lemaire. Performance Evaluation of Load Sharing Policies on a Beowulf Cluster. Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-BW01, Computer Science Department, Spring 2002. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/pants-load/

Brian Conway, Charles McAuley and Jonathan Yurek. Evaluation of DCBT. Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-LR01, Computer Science Department, Spring 2002. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/dcbt-eval/

Steve Law, Brad Goodwin and Michael Cen. Curiouser Browsers, Major Qualifying Project MQP-DCB-0106, Computer Science Department, Spring 2002. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Dave Brown) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/iii-2/

Michael Narris and Joshua Obal. Performance Analysis of the Linux Buffer Cache While Running an Oracle OLTP Workload. Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-EMC1, Computer Science Department, Fall 2001. Sponsored by EMC Corporation. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/linux-oltp/

Dave LaPointe and Josh Winslow. Analyzing and Simulating Network Game Traffic, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-NG01, Computer Science Department, Fall 2001. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/net-game/

Keith Barber, Jason Inglasbe and Joel Thibault. Better-Behaved Multimedia Networking, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-BM00, Computer Science Department, Spring 2001. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/mm-flow

Michael Szelag, David Terry and Jennifer Waite. Integrating Distributed Inter-Process Communication with PANTS on a Beowulf Cluster, Major Qualifying Project MQP-DXF-0021, Spring 2001. (Advisor Mark Claypool, Co-advised with Professor David Finkel) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/pants-dipc

Eugene Cushman, Dan Murphy and George Stuart. Smarter Search Engines - Using Personalization to Improve Search Results, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-CF00, Spring 2001. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/foible/

Phong Le and Makoto Waseda. Curious Browsers, Major Qualifying Project MQP-DCB-9906, Spring 2000. (Advisor Mark Claypool, co-advised with Professor Dave Brown) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/iii/

Asima Silva, Patrick Stevens and Kevin Thorley. Java-Based TFRC Protocol for Streaming Multimedia, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-MP00, Fall 2000. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/tfrc/

Adam Fairbanks. Automation Testbed for 3Com Internet Protocol Testing Suites, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-AT00, Summer 2000. Sponsored by: 3com. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/3com-test/

Andrew Chiller, Nicolas Leazard, Miguel Maldonado and Edwin Mercado. Implementation of Dynamic-CBT, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-DC99, Spring 2000. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/d-cbt-impl/

Ken French, George Oprica and Michael Piecuch. SRP - A Multimedia Network Protocol, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-NM99, Spring 2000. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/srp/

Sharad Yogesh Bhojnagarwala, Michael Sao Pedro and Zak Zebrowski. Filtering Greeting Cards at Sparks.com, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-SF00, Spring 2000. Sponsored by Sparks.com. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/sparks.com/

Brandon Ngo and Lisa Zhang. Tuning Video Redundancy, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-MQ99, Spring 2000. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/tune-vr/

John Baboval and Josh Huber. Development of a Linux Device Driver for an Emulex Fibre Channel Interface, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-RL99, Spring 2000. Sponsored by CLARiiON. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/raid-2/

Kevin Dickson, Chuck Homic and S. Bryan Villamin. Putting PANTS on Linux: Transparent Load Sharing in a Beowulf Cluster, Major Qualifying Project MQP-DXF-9918, Spring 2000. (Advisor Mark Claypool, co-advised with Professor David Finkel) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/pants/

Lee Keyser-Allen. A Symbol Spectrum24 Wireless LAN Device Driver for Linux, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-SL99, Summer 1999. Sponsored by Symbol Technologies. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/symbol/

Tim Miranda, Pavel Murnikov, Dmitry Netes and Matthew Sartin, Collaborative Filtering of an Online Newspaper, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-0002, Spring 1999. (Advisor Mark Claypool, co-advisor: Professor Elke Rundensteiner) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/tango/

Justin Brzozoski and Robert McDonald. MPEG Jitter, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-MJ98, Spring 1999. (Advisor Mark Claypool, co-advisor: Professor Michael Gennert) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/mpeg-jitter/

Greg Bedard, Miguel Angelo Silva and Chris Charette. Iconic Chat, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-IC99, Spring 1999. (Advisor Mark Claypool, co-advisor Professor Lee Becker) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/iconic-chat/

Eric Shea, Chris Spellacy, Shawn Hooley, and Tom Coates. Java Multimedia Performance, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-MP99, Spring 1999. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/mm-perf/

David Markle and Jeff Israelian. Virtual World, Major Qualifying Project MQP-GTH-9811, Spring 1999. (Advisor Professor George Heineman, co-advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/virtual-world/

Frank Sweetser and Charles Anderson. A Clariion RAID Device Driver for Linux, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-RL98, Spring 1999. Sponsored by CLARiiON. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/raid-2/

Brian Whitman, Dan Hebda and Kris Babic. Voice Recognition for a Music Sequencer, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-VR98, Fall 1998. (Advisor Mark Claypool, co-advisor Professor Fred Bianchi) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/voice-music/

Jason Gerek and William Buchanan. MMLib - A Library for End-to-End Simulation of Multimedia over a WAN, Major Qualifying Project MQP-MLC-MJ98, Spring 1998. (Advisor Mark Claypool, co-advisor Professor Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/mmlib/

Ricky Cheng, Peter Leveille, Jack Lock, and Chris Look. Multimedia Multicasting, Major Qualifying Project MQP-REK-0065, Spring 1998. (Advisor Professor Robert Kinicki, co-advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/mqp/mandm/