Undergraduate
research projects can be quite interesting
and valuable [e.g., in leading to a good graduate school]. One undergraduate
project that lead to a high-caliber research publication was with William
Hughes. See first page.
This project involved a good deal of library research. Other undergraduate research projects could involve running computer simulations/explorations of the behavior of information processing networks, biological information processing, classical problems in distributed computation, applications of entropy to bio-informatics. These projects would be as demanding as one or two 3cr courses.
Graduate-level
research projects would be a part of
a graduate degree, and would be much more demanding -- leading to substantial
new knowledge. The subjects would be in the areas of information processing
networks, biological information processing, classical problems in distributed
computation, applications of entropy to bio-informatics, and entropy-based
analysis and interpretation of Internet traffic [i.e., an approach to detecting
artificial-life-like developments].
