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• Shakhina A. Pulatova, Aug 2004 MS Thesis. A Whole Genome Phylogeny Using Truncated Pivoted QR Decomposition
• Kevin Erich Heinrich, Aug 2004 MS Thesis. Finding Functional Gene Relationships Using the Semantic Gene Organizer (SGO)
• Farial Shahnaz, Aug 2004 MS Thesis. A Clustering Method based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Text Mining

• Piotr Rafal Luszczek, May 2003 PhD dissertation. Performance Improvements of Common Sparse Numerical Linear Algebra Computations.
• Sathish Vadhiyar, May 2003 PhD dissertation. A Preemption-Based Meta-Scheduling System for Distributed Computing.

• Barbara C. Plaut, December 1999 PhD dissertation. Theoretical and Algorithmic Approaches to Field-Programmable Gate Array Partitioning

• Eric P. Jiang, August 1998 PhD dissertation. Information Retrieval and Filtering Using the Riemannian SVD
• Dax M. Westerman, May 1998 MS Thesis. The Design and Application of ICAT: Interactive Cluster Analysis Tool
• Safeer Ladha, April 1998 Senior Thesis. Evaluation of a PC-based LSI Search Engine

• Dian I.Witter, December 1997 MS Thesis. Downdating the Latent Semantic Indexing Model for Information Retrieval
• Jingqian Jiang,MS Thesis, December 1997.Using Latent Semantic Indexing for Data Mining.
• Linda E. Mellott's 1997 MS thesis, A Distributed Implementation of an Individual-Based Predator-Prey Model.

• Quentin Browne's 1996 MS thesis, Implementing Optical Field Analog Computation With Bacteriorhodopsin: A Feasibility Study.
• Youngbae Kim's 1996 PhD dissertation, Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations for Parallel and Distributed Systems.
• Todd Letsche's 1996 MS thesis, Toward Large-Scale Information Retrieval Using Latent Semantic Indexing.
• Soeren Peter Olesen's 1996 PhD dissertation, Parallel Computation for Positron Emission Tomography with Reduced Processor Communications.
• Antoine Petitet's 1996 PhD dissertation, Algorithmic Redistribution Methods for Block Cyclic Decompositions.
• George Shen's 1996 MS thesis, An Empirical Investigation of Biologically Plausible Hebbian Systems.
• Nair Venugopal's 1996 MS thesis, The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Cryptographic Distributed Applications: "Secure PVM".

• Renwick Conrad's 1995 MS thesis, A Natural Language Interface to the Unix Operating System Using Recurrent Neural Networks.
• Brett Hazen's 1995 MS thesis, A Distributed Implementation of the Land-Use Change Analysis System (LUCAS) Using PVM.
• Sowmini Varadhan's 1995 PhD dissertation, Estimati ng the Largest Singular Values/Vectors of Large Sparse Matrices via Modified Moments.

• Joe Crumpton's 1994 MS thesis, Evolution of Two Symbol Signals by Simulated Organisms.
• Andy Digh's 1994 MS thesis, The Greek Miracle: An Artificial Life Simulation of the Effects of Literacy on the Dynamics of Communication.
• Philipp Koehn's 1994 MS thesis, Combining Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks: The Encoding Problem. (will not print on 8 1/2 X 11 paper but can be read online).