Final Year Project 2000/2001 Irwin King Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories

FYP I. King IK0001-ACM Programming Contest Training & Infrastructure Building l Train to compete in local and regional ACM contests l Build up the infrastructure for ACM problem archive –Storage and access of problem database –Categorization & cross references l Design and implement a source code server l Learn graph theory, geometry, combinatorics, simulations, cryptography, image processing, linear programming, recursion, etc.

FYP I. King IK0002-Information Magnet: Text Search Engine and Intelligent Agents l Personal Information Network (PiN) –Text-based search enginer –Crawler, analyser, indexer, distributor l Metasearch Engine –Combines results from various data sources for more accurate retrieval

FYP I. King IK0003-Information Magnet: Content- Based Image, Sound, and Video Retrieval on the Internet l Design and implement a multimedia server –Supports multimedia data formats l Sound: MP3, MIDI, WAV, etc. l Image: JPEG, BMP, PICT, etc. l Video: MPG, MOV, QT, etc. –Automatic fetch and extract content information –Multimedia search engine –Application of data mining techniques

FYP I. King IK0004-Internet Component Constructor for Financial Services l Design and build personalized homepage constructor –Container model –Reusable components l HTML code, Javascript, Server-side applet, Applications l Financial Services –Stock tracking, automatic warning –Analysis tools