Art Mahoney began performing research in computer science as a high school student. The results of this work were published in the Proceedings of the 2005 Aging Aircraft Conference. After being awarded a USU Presidential Scholarship as an incoming freshman, Art was also selected as an Undergraduate Research Fellow. His research with Professor Dan Watson initially focused on distributed implementation of altruistic negotiation systems. In support of this research, Art wrote and received an URCO grant in 2006 to construct a new computer cluster. His work quickly advanced, with Art presenting a paper entitled Path Planning for Altruistically Negotiating Systems: The Near-Sighted Tarzan Algorithm at the 2006 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. In the same year, Art was recognized as a Utah Governor’s Scholar. This award was given to only four USU students. In 2007, Art was selected for the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, being one of only 10 computer science students chosen nationwide for this honor. Starting in 2007, Art initiated a new research project focused on the development of a generic distributed parallel path planner to perform path finding in graphs of massive size with applications in biological and social network analysis. Art’s work on this project has been supported by a USU College of Science Eccles Undergraduate Research Fellowship and via an internship at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks, Alaska during summer 2007. The results of this research have been submitted to the journal IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems with Art listed as the primary author. In 2008, Art was selected as one of eight finalists for the Computing Research Association’s Undergraduate Researcher of the Year Award. The other finalists in this competition were from prestigious institutions such as Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford. He has made two additional presentations of his research work at the USU Student Showcase (2006) and at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Seminar Lecture Series (2007).