One of the many applications of Monte Carlo methods can be found in the field of medicine and cancer treatment. In 1997, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy) created […]

    Text Mining is the process by which information is retrieved from written documents.  It turns out that there are many text mining methods that utilize matrices and factorization techniques similar to those that we have learned in CS 322.  There are plenty of previous and current research projects in text mining, and there are […]

Photon mapping is one of many techniques used to render images in computer science. The idea behind photon mapping is rather than cast light rays from the camera to the image (as we did in our first project), cast light rays from the light source to the objects in the scene to see how […]