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Spring 2008 Research Posted!

So as promised earlier during the week, I’ve put up the most interesting of my research papers for this semester. Go and take a look in the Articles section! My interests really do lie everywhere though, just as a warning. Hopefully some of the research might help someone else in the future as well. Quick [...]

‘Modding’ of Video Game Consoles

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 [...]

Graph Isomorphism

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 [...]

Death in Medieval Christian and Late Imperial Chinese Societies

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. Download Article

Cuban Carmen, the Brazilian Bombshell

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. Download Article

Video Game Music and its Effect on Society

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. Download Article

I am graduating!

Just an update… it’s been pretty hectic around here and final exams are wrapping up my last semester of undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon but I wanted to let everyone know that I am still here. I am planning to add a category of papers I researched and wrote so that other people might be [...]