Software Engineering Final year project Ideas?

Question

I need some ideas for my final year project. I have just completed my second year of BSc (Hons) Software engineering. I want to create something based on research, something that doesn't exist yet or to inprove existing technology by doing some research. I am happy to learn new programming languages or technologies.

I have done Network Application Development (socket programming) in my second year as an optional module.

Thankyou.

Answer 1

here it is. It's new, based on research, doesn't exist, improves massively the yubnub technology, and most importantly is damn useful and can make you a millionaire. it also uses concepts you have probably learned on your networks module.

It's a command shell for the web.
It's missing badly. Few people tried but failed.
You'd have to Implement pipes and filters, matchers and transformers. Make it multithreaded, fast and scalable. Make it extendable by Internet users.

Look at yubnub and the web/os project to get ideas.
Look also at a crawler/spider project called sphinx.

If you make it I'd be happy to use it and let all my friends know it finally exists. Probably a big company would buy it from you for X mil $. If you choose it you have a lot of work in front of you.