From: mfb AT mbunix DOT mitre DOT org (Michael F Brenner)
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Subject: Re: Final year project
Date: 5 Aug 1997 14:45:55 GMT
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> I have been told anything is possible (by my lecturers), however they
> recommend we stick with:
>
> Information Systems
> Inventory control
> Java intensive websites
> Games

Information systems is pretty broad (a pencil? a book? a computer?).
A project should be a SPECIFIC system, such as a robot part (program a djgpp
virtual robot to walk down the stairs while drinking a sodapop, subject
to normal gravity), or a particular commercial system (program a djgpp
interface to SAP or other commercial manufacturing system),
or a particular database system (convert your favorite database to
accept SQL queries). Web sites are too boring. Games are wide open, but
specific examples depend on your interests and abilities. The world needs
games that can be played by those in power (politicians, psychiatrists,
lawyers, lawmakers, law enforcers, media, religionists, and bankers) to 
see what effects their actions have on those they have power over. For 
example, you could program a game showed what happens to an economy when 
the media broadcast a belief that a given product or process is unhealthy
(or healthy). The end results include possible wars, catastrophes, 
depressions, movement of wealth and populations, transfers of funds and land,
changes in laws, swaps in the populations of prisons and villages, 
who lives versus who dies, and so forth. However, the best project you
could do would be anythings that more rapidly brings about the age of
robots. The best solution for an ailing economy is to sell a trillion
dollars worth of robots.