Fall '09 Projects

This semester the ACM officer team is planning projects for the upcoming year. If you have any ideas for a project, please contact an ACM officer. Expect more updates soon.

Past Projects

Tic-Tac-Toe Machine:

This project involved building a tic-tac-toe game computer with Artificial Intelligence skills. Many of computer science research areas are to build a computer program that thinks like a human being. We tried to build a our own version of the tic-tac-toe machine without a electronic device. This machine consists of three part. At first, the user enters his/her moves on the game board, and the operator enter the user's move to the tic-tac-toe machine. After the machine choose the best move to win the game, it will show its next movement. This machine was built in 1998, and K'NEX Industries, Inc. donated the parts.

Goal: to understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. They use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

How can you help? You can help our project by downloading and running our client software. Our algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, we get a commensurate increase in simulation speed.

-From folding home main webpage

Download folding program
(after you download the program don't forget the team number: #11675)
Go to folding home official page
View advanced Folding stats for MSU