The Research Activity Leaders' Presentation Hour is an event held once a semester by Northeastern University's Gamma Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon to showcase undergraduate research at the College of Computer and Information Science.

Please watch this place for the announcement of the Fall 2009 event.

The Spring 2007 event took place on April 4th.

The Fall 2006 event took place on November 8th and was a lot of fun. A brief synopsis of each submission is available below. Presentation slides will be posted as soon as we have them.

Because this event is intended to promote undergraduate research at CCIS, we strongly encourage professors and researchers looking for project assistants to attend. Professors may give a brief presentation outlining the nature of the research if they so wish. Please email the officers at upe-officers@ccs.neu.edu for more information.

Food will be provided for all attendees. Presenters will be awarded small thank-yous, probably in the form of gift certificates.

Students wishing to present at RALPH must submit a one-page proposal to our review board. Proposals should include the title of the presentation, a description of the research, and a brief outline of the presentation. All proposals must be accompanied by a brief note from the research supervisor (a professor, Systems staff person, or a co-op employer) endorsing the proposal.

Please e-mail the proposals, preferably as plain text, to upe-officers@ccs.neu.edu.

1. Teach your peers about your work.
2. Show other students and faculty what you accomplished.
3. Encourage by your example other students to get involved in undergraduate research.
4. Polish your public speaking skills.
5. Add your experience to your resume.
6. Get a cool prize.
7. Have fun.
8. Free food!

April 4th, 2007:

• Rachel Ober: Prestar
  Prestar is a web application that gives its members the ability to lend and borrow items from other members via its interface.
• Patrick Kaeding: Crew, Xen, and You
  An overview of the Xen virtualization infrastructure.
• Brian Guthrie: Diagram Understanding System
  A system for aiding comprehension of diagrams in the biological literature.

November 8th, 2006:

• Chris Lambert, Building RGrep: A Case Study on Domain-Specific Search Engines
• Tanya Cashorali, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
• William A. Nowak, Digital Displays: Building an Information Distribution Network

March 15th, 2006:

• David Baldwin, Controlling Attention With Noise: The Cue-Combination Model of Visual Search
• Ian Langworth, NU Radio
• Josh Abraham, Network Mapping

November 17th, 2005:

• Daniel Matysiak, Reliably Distinguishing States in Qutrit Channels Using One-way LOCC
• Brian Guthrie, DUSI: A Prototype System for Rich User Interactions with Diagrams in Online Scientific Research Papers
• CCIS Crew and John Patota, Capture the Flag