In Dreams

Category B (noncompetitive)

New Mexico High School
Supercomputing Challenge
Final Report
April 5, 2000

Team Number 042

Shiprock High School

Team Members:
Alayna Largo
Chantell Redhouse
Christopher Jim

Sponsoring Teacher:
V. Noble

Project Advisor:


Team Number: 042
School Name: Shiprock High School
Area of Science: Behavioral and Social Sciences
Project Title: In Dreams
Project Abstract: http://www.challenge.nm.org/Abstacts/042.shtml
Interim Report: http://www.challenge.nm.org/Interim/042.shtml
Final Report: http://www.challenge.nm.org/FinalReports/042

Our program seemed far fetched, at this time it still is. Most of the early stages consisted of research. That has made little benefit for us. Our goal has also shifted. We were heading for understanding for a dream simulation. This program still in a skeleton form and we haven't planned any language for it yet. We decided that we wanted to use number variables for the program to run. This collection of variables will be a collection of elements that the computer will read. Then the computer "with its own perspective" interpret these dreams and output a response. The output be a combination of two perspectives used by the computer. One perspective will be abstract and the other will be rather logical.

What we would have done was testing a variety of programs suitable for our needs on the C++ language. The length of time was not used wisely. The earlier stages of our project consisted of researching dreams. We had a different goal then, as we do now. Our first goal had to do with interpreting dreams ourselves. That did not fit anywhere in the Supercomputing Challenge challenges. So we aimed our goal direction towards creating a dream simulation in which the computer would interpret itself. This was very difficult the fact that we had no mentor. The lack of communication time enabled us from progressing any type of relationship with Gayle Anderson.

Next time we hope to go further in depth and specific. We were robbed from experiencing the creation of a program from time. The psychology in computer synthesis was rather difficult. Next time we hope to have a mentor in the beginning and push further into our project. Thank you for your time.


New Mexico High School Supercomputing Challenge
http://www.challenge.nm.org