[H-GEN] [UQCSA] looking for programmers for BrainWave projects (fwd)

[Raymond Smith]

BrainWave is how I made a living during Honours last year. The work is not
all that difficult (besides Java being a fast moving and often frustrating
target!). Note that the work is on a project-by-project basis. I believe
the rates are HEW 5 by the expected time to complete.

Cheers,

Raymond.

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raymond at humbug.org.au


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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:23:12 +1000
From: Simon Dennis <s.dennis at psy.uq.edu.au>
Reply-To: UQCSA <uqcsa at humbug.org.au>
To: "UQCSA (E-mail)" <uqcsa at humbug.org.au>
Subject: [UQCSA] looking for programmers for BrainWave projects

Expanding on my previous call for people to aid with BrainWave projects:


BrainWave is a artificial neural network simulator developed at the University
of Queensland for teaching connectionist modelling. BrainWave employs a 
highly graphical, direct manipulation interface - much like a drawing program 
(see http://psy.qu.edu.au/~brainwav). Versions 1.0 and 1.1 of BrainWave 
were written in Java 1.0.2.. We are currently upgrading to Java 1.1.6 and 
have a number of projects available: 

Project 1: Display Output

Currently all of the screen objects in BrainWave are displayed in colour. On 
black & white terminals this can create difficulties. For this reason, 
BrainWave 1.1 included an option for rendering the screen in black and white 
and we would like to duplicate that functionality in BrainWave 2.0. The first 
part of this project would involve including the black & white option as part of 
the paint routine of the main objects including units, weights, pattern sets 
and buttons. Since the colour paint code already exists this will mainly 
involve choosing appropriate colour mappings and identifying and fixing any 
ambiguities that arise from rendering in black & white. The second part of the 
project involves outputting the current screen in postscript. Again, the 
existing colour painting code can be adapted for the task. In addition, we 
already have a postscript object which produces postscript for drawing 
primitives such as lines and text. Consequently, the project will not require 
an extensive understanding of postscript.

Value: $340
Duration: ~ 16 hours
Required Completion Date: July 7th

Project 2: Pattern Set Editor

BrainWave stores collections of values used by its algorithms in entities 
called pattern sets. This project will involve writing a simple spreadsheet 
interface to facilitate the editing of pattern sets. In addition, the editor 
should allow the writing and reading of text files of pattern set data.

Value: $510
Duration ~ 24 hours
Required Completion Date: June 31st

Project 3: Promoting the release of BrainWave 2.0

Upon completion of BrainWave 2.0 we intend to conduct a promotional campaign. 
This project would involve preparing for that campaign. The first part would 
involve searching the world wide web for appropriate sites on which BrainWave 
could be advertised or for which link exchanges might be appropriate. The 
second part would involve organizing a snail mailout, including compiling a 
mailing list (by searching the web), the production of a colour brochure and 
conducting the mailout. The third part of the project would involve an email 
mailout, including identifying existing emailing lists, compiling an email mailing 
list, producing the email to be distributed and conducting the mailout. Please 
note the objective here is to carefully target people who are likely to be 
interested. 

Value: $340
Duration: ~ 16 hours
Required Completion Date: July 14th

The next four projects involve extending existing BrainWave objects to add new 
activation and learning algorithms. While an understanding of neural networks 
would be an advantage in these projects, all of the algorithms are simple, well
defined and are the subject of textbook chapters or single papers. A 
mathematically competent person would have no difficult implementing them.

Project 4: Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) architecture

Value: $680
Duration: ~ 32 hours
Required Completion Date: July 14th

Project 5: Boltzmann Machine

Value: $680
Duration: ~ 32 hours
Required Completion Date: July 14th 

Project 6: ALCOVE

Value: $680
Duration ~ 32 hours
Required Completion Date: July 14th

Project 7: Synchronous Fireflies

Value: $680
Duration: ~ 32 hours
Required Completion Date: July 14th





Dr. Simon Dennis
School of Psychology
University of Queensland
Queensland 4072
Australia
Email: s.dennis at psy.uq.edu.au
Home Page: http://psy.uq.edu.au/~mav


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