We have some support for people to work on individual projects that have 
the potential to evolve into course materials for COS 126/226 here in the
CS department, primarily during June and July this summer. 

There are a huge number of potential tasks for people to take on; our
preference is for everyone to work on things close to their level of 
expertise and interest, so the "job description" will be tailored accordingly.
To give you an idea of what we have in mind, here is a list of some ideas,
though we expect that people will bring their own ideas into the process.
    * Java Turing machine simulation
    * hardware design for complete TOY machine
    * display wall prototype lecture
    * Enigma codebreaking assignment
    * quantum physics simulation
    * distributed computing lecture
    * economic system simulation assignment
    * support for interactive exercises
    * switch-level simulator
    * processing huge graphs from real applications
    * source-to-(html+Java) lecture "compiler"
    * ecological/biological systems simulation
    * DNA/quantum computing lecture
There are no preconceived expectations about which projects will ultimately
"work out" and be adopted into the curriculum and which ones will be chalked
up to an interesting learning experience; indeed, the latter is as
important as the former.  Your goal in this job would be to pursue something 
related to the courses that you want to learn more about, while at the same 
time holding on to the potential of producing something that may be of value 
to future students.

If you've survived the courses, you're probably qualified for the
work; if we get more responses than we can support, we'll work out some
selection mechanism.  If you are interested in being involved in this
project this summer, please send a brief mail message telling
us a little bit about who you are and your level of interest.  We'll
then work out the details with the interested parties.

A. Finklestein
af@cs.princeton.edu

R. Sedgewick
rs@cs.princeton.edu

K. Wayne
wayne@cs.princeton.edu