CS-388 Pitches

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  • I want to create a tool that will protect a web application from malicious attacks. As a start, I would like to build a simple website where multiple users are able to sign up, authenticate and store information. Then, I will attempt ethical hacking using injection attacks, like cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi). If time permits, I will also explore URL manipulation, session-based attacks, cross-site request forgery, cookie highjacking. As a result, I will discover possible threats and vulnerabilities and improve data encryption, authorization, and access control.
  • I want to write software that will generate an n x n or an n x m maze, and find a way out of it. The maze will be represented as a binary matrix where 0 and 1 indicate whether a certain block can be used or not. At the same time, I would also like to analyze differences in memory consumption and runtime between cases where we are able to move in all four directions or only certain directions. 
  • I plan to work on a Japanese natural language processing tool. Japanese language, unlike many others, does not use any spacing between meaningful parts of the sentence. Using this application, I hope to help improve the language learning process for students. Since I have already done some work in this area, I have a working piece of software that successfully separates words, however, there still are some mistakes and inconsistencies. I want to improve the existing code and add more features, like a user-friendly interface, displaying word translations (using an external dictionary), parts of speech, and different readings. At the same time, I would like to provide an estimate of the reader’s language comprehension level. I have collected some datasets using web-scraping from an online dictionary (jisho.org), which I plan to use for this project.

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