Week 6: Second Presentations Begin

Week 6: (7/2/2010)

The second set of presentations (update of the students' projects) began this week.

We had three speakers.

1) Luke Perkins

2) Brian Michalski

3) Nate Stedman

Luke is going strong with his BWAPI (Brood War API). He is writing a lot of unit tests and he is updating his blog/code very regularly. Luke is consistently number one in our dashboard. Luke's code has been downloaded by 1000's of people and we are hoping for greater things from Luke.

Brian has made good progress with his Flagship Geo. He is also writing unit tests for the code he has written. Brian's framework is extensible and he wants to provide api to Shuttle tracking project, crime reporting projects etc. Brian also talked about Concerto 2 - They are redesigning to make plug in architecture. Concerto has already had 10,000 downloads. CERN is using Concerto with LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project announcements. RPI announced that they are going to use Concerto for their RPIAlert Systems!

Nate is progressing with his Ease Presentation software. Nate and his team had already made efforts for i18n. (translated into 4 more languages) Nate's demo is awesome. Video plugin works (almost). Again a fantastic job is done by Nate both in his implementation and presentation.

All in all, if we use these three presentations as samples for updates of projects, RCOS is in an excellent shape this summer!