Given the increased interest of educational institutions to raise awareness of environmental issues, there is a desire to inform students of their personal usage of resources. Generally, this is in the form of the quantity of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are produced by the lifestyle that they lead. The volume of carbon produced either directly or indirectly by an individual’s lifestyle is dependant on a wide range of factors and is almost impossible to precisely calculate.

sc pipes is a SystemC package for building and simulating models of pipelined systems. To use sc pipes, a designer familiar with SystemC should have very little to learn. To create a pipeline simulation with sc pipes, the user builds an sc module for each stage to be used in the pipeline, with only minor di erences from the way such a module would be built in a SystemC program without sc pipes. The user then builds an scp pipeline object, passing to its constructor an expression describing the pipeline's con guration.

In Summer 2009 I participated in the NSF-funded SURF-IT (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) involved creating an iPhone/iPod Touch application called Teenvity that is designed to motivate teenagers to exercise by playing games that require movement. The application is molded to the user’s personality; the system selects an agent, motivational phrases, and games to suggest to the user based on a short personality test.

A web crawler is a program that scours the Internet moving from website to website. Web crawlers have many different purposes, such as sending out junk mail, finding dead links within a domain, and searching websites and databases for relevant information like that of Google. This project focuses on using a web crawler to map the hierarchy of links within a particular domain. Starting at the St. Lawrence University’s home page, the web crawler gathers all the links that are found while crawling the St. Lawrence domain.