Architecture Research Project (Project 2)

CS 441, Dr. Lawlor
A substantial chunk of your course grade comes from the two semester projects.  Project 1 was entirely research-oriented.  Project 2 will be more applied and implementation-oriented.  From the syllabus:
    PROJ2: a software development or hardware performance analysis project, due in December.

Here's what's left of the semester, before the final on December 16:
   November 2010
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 <- project topics in class
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 <- rough draft code due (then Thanksgiving break)
28 29 30

December 2010
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 <- presentations
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 <- finals week, final code and performance analysis due
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
The deliverables are:

Possible Project 2 Topics

Or choose your own topic!  Topics should all be applied work of the form "Build a new X", not just paper research.
Your starting code can be something completely new, something you found on the net (with a citation), or an extension of any homework in this class or any other.