Computer Science

Many students got summer internship either with department's help or by themselves. Typically, the internship jobs are paid, located in NY metropolitan area or Philadelphia metropolitan area. Some students received job offer after internship. For the students who did not do internship, some of them either worked with department professors to do research or joined NSF REU working with professors of other colleges. The following is a partial list of internship employers and REU programs our students participated in the last several years.

• Verizon Wireless
• Merill Lynch
• Apple
• Google Summer of Code
• FAA
• FBI Regional Digital Forensic Lab
• US Army
• General Dynamics
• Lockheed Martin
• Educational Testing Services (ETS)
• FBI New Jersey Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory
• Evex
• LDiscovery
• Novo Design Corp
• World Internet Marketing, Inc.
• Total Repair Express LLC
• Villanova University
• Gestalt-LLC
• Omniplanar, Incorporated
• Nesbit Systems, Inc.
• Marathon Data Systems, LLC
• Stafford Township School District’s department of technology
• Rowan University
• The College of New Jersey
• Ewing Township Public School
• Texas A&M (NSF REU)
• Dartmouth College, Secure Information Systems Mentoring and Training (SISMAT) (NSF REU)
• Rochester Institute of Technology (NSF REU)
• Drexel University (NSF REU)
• TCNJ, Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Project

Every semester, students who do mentored research or internship will present their work as posters. The presentation in Fall semester is a departmental event, the presentation in Spring semester is a part of college Celebration of Student Achievement. The following is a list of presentation titles of our students in the last several years.

2011

• Cloud Filter
• Implementing an Institutional Repository for The College of New Jersey
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Risk Data Management
• Mobile Apps: The Hyperlocal Market & Gamification
• White Gaussian Noise Generator
• Design of a Dual-Core System for Parallel Program Execution
• Real Time Monitoring of Network Traffic
• Internship at Management Planning, Inc.
• Designing a Trust Distribution Diagramming Tool
• Internship with TD Bank
• Implementing the ControlFlow Module in COMTOR
• Database-driven Web Design at Pfizer
• Automated Unit Test Framework Development For McGraw-Hill Construction
• An Investigation in Cloud Services
• Cybercrimes and Databases with Microsoft Access
• Workflow Management for Web-Based Collaborative Content Creation, Editing and Feedback
• Securing CAFÉ: Investigating and Addressing the Privacy and Security Challenges of Next-Generation Journalism
• Renovating CAFÉ: A Study in Usability and Accessibility
• Scheduling on the Grid: Resource Management for TGrid
• Nesbit Systems Inc., Moving at the Speed of Media
• Gesture Recognition and Tracking Using Microsoft Kinect
• Toward JCoDA 2.0: Modifications and Modules
• TCNJ Campus Tour App
• Accessibility and Bilingual Support in iPhone Application Development

2010

• Implementation of Persistent Storage and Memory Management in iPhone Development
• Developing an Interactive Campus Tour App for the iPhone
• Cross Site Scripting in HTML5
• Uses of Parameters in Natural Language Recognition Systems
• TCNJ Grid Computing Development
• Fort Monmouth Internship Experience
• Pierceaxiom Internship
• Search Engine Optimization
• Transposing Computer Vision-Captured Data into Physical Bodies
• Visualization of Literary Collocation
• Optical Network Scheduling
• Improving Sorting Performance by Inverting Quicksort
• Network Security Testing with iPhone
• Learning Web Development Techniques to Improve the User Interface of a Web-based Comment Mentoring System
• Grid Computing Security
• Software Reverse Engineering (SRE)
• Rootkit analysis
• Design and Implementation of Security Enhancements in CAFÉ
• Performance Analysis of Dual and Quad Core CPUs
• Segslice: Secure relations between code and data
• Web Design using Drupal
• Investigating Computational Methods for Evaluating Putative Substrate Conformations in CYP734A Proteins
• Time Travel of Objects in a Two-Player Video Game
• Conducting Robots

2009

• Analyzing Security, Usability and Generalization of a Grid Computing Framework
• Game Theory and Computer Networks
• Continuing Development of CAFÉ (Collaboration and Facilitation Environment)
• Motion Extraction from Astronomical Images
• COMTOR: Evolving the User Interface of a Computer Science Educational Tool
• A Comparative Study of Performance Gains in Parallel Programming with POSIX Threads and Cilk++
• A Study of Wireless Security
• Internationalization and Web App. Security
• “Defense in Depth” - Database Security for the VENUS System
• Dynamic Reporting for Trenton-Area Habitat For Humanity Online Volunteer Registration System
• Object Recognition for Use on a Humanoid Robot
• Improved Computer-Based Analysis of Music Conducting
• "Improved
• Collision Detection in Processing"
• An Investigation of Large Data Sets Using Parallel Java
• Application of Parametric Theory of Language to Automated Translation
• Language Detection
• Forming and Implementing Test Procedures on  a Key Management System Used in a Large Tactical Network
• Internship in Web-Based Software
• An Object-Oriented Approach to C. Elegans

2008

• Performance Analysis of an MPI Enhanced Solution to Sudoku on a Parallel Cluster
• COMTOR - Comment Mentoring System
• Designing SHA-3
• MIZI: Menus In Zenworks Imaging
• A Study of Exponential-Splitting Routing Protocols
• A Study of Web Application Security
• Virtual Honeypots
• MS Terminal Services
• Designing a Template for Creating Bayesian Networks
• Gumshoe: A Database Driven Web Application for Computer Aided Reporting
• The Robot Recognizes You: An End-to-End Face Recognition System
• Detecting Name Tags in Digital Images
• Gesture Recognition for a Webcam-Controlled First Person Shooter
• Video Games Without Players
• Immersive Language Learning in Video Games
• Towards Robust Resource Management in a Heterogeneous Grid-Computing Environment
• Information Security for a Web-based Content Management System
• Designing a User Interface for the Next Generation Content Management System
• COMTOR: Evolving the User Interface of a Computer Science Educational Tool
• Enhancing the Web Interface and Developing Modules for COMTOR: A Source Code Comment Analysis System
• Implementing a Window's Rootkit using Device Drivers
• Parsing Natural Language to Answer How Questions
• Extending an Interactive Web-Based Journalism Environment: Part I
• Extending an Interactive Web-Based Journalism Environment: Part II
• Computer-Based Analysis of Music Conducting
• Bridging the Digital Divide by Utilizing Scratch in Tanzania
• Federal Aviation Administration Internship
• Building Documentation For Software Development
• Web Application Development: Internship with TCNJ's Web Development Team

2007

• Designing a User Interface for the Next-Generation Content Management System
• Implementing Video Game Artificial Intelligence Across a Network
• Internship at Merril Lynch
• The Robot Recognizes You: Building toward an end-to-end face recognition system
• Detecting Name Tags in Digital Images
• Information Security for a Web-Based Content Management System
• TCNJ Subversion
• Improving the Content Management of WordPress
• Toward Robust Resource Management in a Heterogeneous Grid Computing Environment
• Google Summer of Code: Boost
• Gesture Recognition for a Webcam-Controlled First Person Shooter
• Summer 2007 Internship Experience at Merrill Lynch
• Managing visual complexity for egalitarian team projects
• Project CEDAR: Electronic Curriculum Management
• rMusic (demo)
• Grid Computing over the TCNJ Network
• Transport Protocol for an Integrated Network
• Data Acquisition using DAQmx
• Implementation of a Face Recognition System
• A Study of FAST TCP
• The Two-Dimensional Strip Packing Problem
• Analyzing Music Conductors using Computer Vision (demo)
• Implementation of a Game AI across a Network (demo)
• Internship at E-Computing
• Fourth Generation Wireless Networks
• Real time face and eye detection (demo)

2006

• Internship with Merrill Lynch: Converting Legacy Code to VS.NET
• Creating a report distribution system using XML
• Development of a Framework for Automated Java Source Code Comment Analysis
• Investigation and Analysis of Web Security, Focus on Solutions for the Department's Web Site
• rMusic: Building the Client Program
• Programming Enhancements for the Source Engine
• Face Recognition Using Eigenfaces and Fisherfaces
• Detecting Faces and Facial Features in Images
• Toward a Community-Based World Wide Web Content Filte
• Testing and Expanding the communiFilter
• Efficiency and Fairness in High-Speed TCP Design
• Mileage Tracker with ASP 2.0
• Hopewell Curriculum Map Adaption
• Entity-Managed Resources in Half Life 2
• Recognition using Eigenobjects
• Face Recognition by Computers
• Designing and Implementing a Communication Model for a Mobile Computational System
• Computational Linguistics Using ResearchCyc Knowledge Base
• rMusic
• Natural Language Processing of Time Questions using Common Sense Knowledgebase:  Case Study
• "Periodical Scheduling Problem in Optical Burst Switching
• Networks"
• Workorder System Deployment
• Modding Gameplay Based on Half-Life 2 Game Engine
• Machine-Learning based Named Entity Recognition
• Database Integration & OOP in Web Applications

2005

• Tracking Legitimate and Spam Email Headers and Anonymity Techniques
• File Recovery under the NTFS file system
• Web Application Development for Adelphia Donuts LLC
• Software Testing for Nesbit Systems
• Internship at Maser Consulting
• Protection and Restoration Problem in Modern Network
• Implementation of an Anaphor Resolution Algorithm
• rMusic
• File Recovery and Email Tracing
• Secure File Deletion and Removal of Data Remanence
• Anagram Dictionary
• Nihongo no Fighters: A Real-Time Interactive Game in SDL
• Practical Real-World Game and Meta-game Analysis and Decision Making
• Linguistic Tool Assessment for ARLISS
• Machine Learned Named Entity Recognition
• Developing a Plug-in for Eclipse that supports the subsetting of the Java language
• A Practice to Develop a 3D Game Using OpenGL and DirectX
• Transport Layer Protocols for High-Speed Wireless Networks
• Implementing an XML Meta-Database for Mobile Computations

The department has a reputation of a high job placement rate for students. The following is a incomplete list of our students' employers.

• Accenture
• Merck & Company, Inc.
• GE Aerospace
• Johnson and Johnson
• General Dynamics
• AT&T
• Merrill Lynch/Bank of America
• Dow Jones
• Vanguard Group
• Verizon Wireless
• New York Times
• Educational Testing Service (ETS)
• American Cyanamid
• Congoleum Corporation
• Cosmair, Inc.
• Infonautics Corporation
• MIDI, Inc.
• NJ Criminal Justice
• Paradigm4, Inc.
• Patterns Systems, Inc.
• RaidPower
• Selective Insurance
• State of NJ Department of Human Services
• US Army
• The College of New Jersey
• New Jersey Turnpike Authority
• State of New Jersey (Office of Information Technology)
• UnitedHealth Group
• DefinedLogic, LLC
• Natixis U.S. Corporate & Investment Banking
• Bentley Systems
• SAI Global
• Vonage
• Lehman Brothers
• eSpoc
• Nielsen Business Media
• Infragistics Inc.
• LexisNexis
• United Computer Sales & Service, Inc.
• CBDI, Inc.
• KPMG LLP
• Verizon Data Services
• First Investors Corp.
• Computer Sciences Corporation
• Winston Financial
• Compas, Inc./Infocures
• Thomson Reuters
• AirClic
• Fidessa corp
• Vertro, Inc.
• Wiredset, LLC

A significant percent of our students were accepted by graduate schools when they graduated. About 26% of class 2009 were accepted to Ph.D programs, and about 33% of class 2010 were accepted to Ph.D programs. The following is a list of graduate schools that our students were accepted in the last several years.

• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Purdue University
• Stanford University
• Harvard University
• Princeton University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• University of Maryland
• University of Virginia
• University of Toronto
• Penn State University
• New York University School of Law
• New York University Stern School of Business
• Texas A&M
• North Carolina State University
• Rutgers Business School
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• University of Southern California
• University of California, Davis
• Villanova University
• Drexel University
• Rutgers University
• Stevens Institute of Technology
• Lehigh University
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Delaware University
• NJIT
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Wright State University
• University of Calgary, Canada
• University of Central Florida
• George Mason University
• State University of New York, Stony Brook
• Virginia Tech

Department of Computer Science Awards

Each spring, the department awards the top students in each class. Typically, each award is accompanied by a textbook of the awardee's choosing, donated by a publishing company (subject to their support). Awards are voted on by the faculty and awards are presented in a special ceremony (usually during the last week of classes).

The Charles H. Goldberg Prize is awarded annually by the Computer Science Department to a student (or students) who has demonstrated academic excellence in Computer Science and who will be continuing into graduate study in Computer Science.