I am going to start on my senior thesis next semester, now, I am looking for ideas. I hope that I can work on something somehow practical and technically hard enough to be a senior thesis.<p>Do you guys have any idea in mind that you want to see?
I am in a similar boat, trying to hone in on a topic for an independent research project.<p>At the moment I am considering researching which industries might be disrupted by crowdsourcing similar to how stock photography and language translation have.<p>If you go down the distributed human computation route, let me know as we may have some areas to compare research findings.
Make an ether-wiki. That would be an edit-in-place realtime collaborative editing website that had an easy syntax to create links to other documents. It would be like a wiki but lower the barrier to editing the doc. Instead of markdown, have a style editor while editing.<p>The real-time nature of it is the hard part.
I'm biased, but I think anything post-pc makes for fascinating thesis material.<p>Maybe watch the Arduino documentary for some inspiration? It's only 28 minutes: <a href="http://arduinothedocumentary.org/" rel="nofollow">http://arduinothedocumentary.org/</a>
Is it a project (something you make) or paper?<p>Paper ideas:
- The ethics and legal issue regarding the recent Dropship news.
- Whether or not Bitcoin can replace real currency.<p>Project ideas:
- Artificial Neural Network
- Any mobile app