Raphael•Mun

My friends and I were interested in video game console security so for Information Warfare in Spring 2008, we decided to research into hacking consoles. It was a fun project and learning about Xbox hacking from Bunnie's book was cool along with the work I'd done before on emulating gameboys. Hopefully you'll find it interesting too.
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Another research I did in Spring 2008, this time on the graph isomorphism problem. It is an interesting problem that is yet unknown to be whether in P or NP-Complete so I worked on trying to come up with a polynomial time solution and tried various different approaches that other people seemed to not have tried yet like reducing an n-complete graph into the two input graphs and wasn't completely successful but I came up with a method that seemed to show some success in a subset of graphs using sorting algorithms.
Hopefully this paper will get other people interested and maybe someone might find a polynomial time solution to the GI problem from an idea derived from here.
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Another course I took in Spring 2008 was about Religions of China, and I was intrigued by the death rituals in China and the cultural differences reflected between late imperial Chinese death rituals and medieval Christian funerals so I read up on the experts and analyzed it.
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I learned about Latin America and U.S. relations in Spring 2008, and one of the things that really popped out at me was Carmen Miranda and her Chiquita Bananas image. So I decided to research about her and how the image of Latin America in the United States developed.
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I did research in Spring 2008 for Music and Society on video game music, taking a step back from the classical and contemporary music analysis. It's an interesting read and it might help some of you out there doing your own research on video game music.
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