Week 5: Student Presentations

Week 5: (6/25/2010)

We are in the fifth week of summer and all the students are done with making their first set of presentations. During this first set of presentations, all the students have outlined their problems, motivation, importance, clients and time lines of their projects.

We had talks by

1) Ryan Baltazar
2) Matthew O'Brien
3) Jacob Katz
4) Anthony Loven and Brittany Jason
5) Joseph Dougherty

Ryan and Ben are working to get a OSM Tile Server On The Road - Not only they are getting one, they are also documenting their efforts. Many of the pieces of OSM (Open Street Map) tile server are not documented - so Ryan and Ben are doing their best to get the software running.

Matthew's talk on Project Community Connected generated a lot of discussions - The questions ranged from how his system is different from the existing open source, security, IP filtering (about who can psot in the community) etc. Matt defended all the questions reasonably well. Matt has a time line and a prototype implementation almost ready. Matt will add additional features such as RSS feeds, mash up with maps once he gets his website running. Matt usses PHP, HTML 5, CSS, JQuery and Javascript.

Jacob is working on OpenGambit an education program to teach chess to young children(for windows XP (32 bit) architecture). Jacob had written as much code as he has deleted . He is writing his system in C++ and will have a GUI to go along with his back-end. Jacob has also written substantial code (he even demonstrated a command line version!) and a time line for his project.

Anthony and Jason are developing a calendar like system (agenda management system) for Androids. They have placed their first talk online already! They have a lot of cool features - Hope they get to work on things that distinguish their applications from the rest. They have a time line too.

Finally Joe D is working on a fire Department Management system to help with Fire Departments. Joe's earlier version software have been used by his town's fire department - That was written in Visual Basic. His current system uses C++, Qt (for GUI) and SQL-lite for Database . Joe D is confident that he will be able to finish most of the implementation by the end of July.

Now we are on to the next round of talks - Looking forward to hearing great(er) things!