Week 6: (3/5/2010)
Rob, Eric and Nate have updated Spring 2010 projects and its current website is http://dashboard.rcos.cs.rpi.edu - The Dashboard has been keeping us honest and sincere. Dashboard is also used as a recruiting tool by a few companies! There is a great deal of co-ordination between all the mentors (Rob, Eric and Josh). Nate is helping with a consistent web site using good style sheets.
Students are receiving a lot of accolades for their innovations and it is hard for me to keep up with all that! Please do send me mails/notes about your software (how many downloads, any press/blog notices) and I will post them in Achievements section.
The past week we had six fine talks by the following students:
1) Justin Lipton and Jonathan Rosenberg
2) Allen Lavoie
3) Graylin Kim and Cihan Caglayan
4) Anna Cyganowski
5) Brendon Justin
6) Timothy McMullan and Tom Rozanski
They have been updating their blogs which is reflected in the dashboard
Justin and Jonathan are making good progress with their Medialist which has a nice social networking idea. Their system is (very) cool.
Allen Lavoie got excellent initial results on his automatic paper classification. He had selected nice features and the initial results are very promising.
Here are Allen's beautiful slides.
Graylin and Cihan are working on Floodlight to make NY State government transparent. This project is done jointly with DotCIO from NY State.
Anna, a first time RCOSer, did a fantastic presentation of MateriaLab, an educational game designed for integrated Material Science Education.
Brendon, a first time RCOSer, is planning to contribute patches, improvements and bug fixes to existing open source software synergy++ (a popular mouse grabbing software between desktop and laptops). Brendon has already done some patches!
Timothy and Tim, also first time RCOSers, are working on AWESOME-wav to do open source steganography with wave files. They have an intial design and are planning for advances/improvements once their initial implementation is completed.
There were plenty of perceptive questions and suggestions from other students. The speakers were able to give appropriate answers/counter comments. I learned as much from these interactions as I listened from the student talks.
Students are planning to code open source projects while spending their spring break away from classes! - At least that is what they tell me!
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