Most of the students have chosen their projects and have started making headway into their projects. We had four talks this week - three by students and we had a guest speaker from dotCIO office Will Gill (Will has worked on RCOS projects during past semesters).
We had presentations by
1) John McMaster
2) Will Gill
3) Alex Radocea
4) Graylin Kim
John Mcmaster's project is universal de-compiler by force - John is continuing his work on open source tools for reverse engineering. In particular he wants to pursue scanning for licenses in source code - John has learnt enough Qt to create a GUI front end for his decompiler - He hopes that having a gui will add more usability to his system. His talk slides may be found in
Will Gill talked about geo cordinates features of HTML 5. Will has building a lot of web applications for dotCIO office. One of the applications he is building is to show points of interest close to where one is. Will had a nice demo with IPad which showed wikipedia articles close to JEC building. Will will post some of his sample code on the web for others to look at.
Alex talked about his touch math (interactive) project. His project is manipulate math equations on the fly and get results. To illustrate if you want to expand(x+y) 2 all you need is to pull this apart - what one does with IPhone/Android for expanding icons. Alex's ideas are very cool and can be an excellent tool set for Scientists. His talk may be found here.
Graylin Kim talked about his work with Open Legislation and NY State Open Government Project. In his past work, he has provided API and search capabilities. Now he wants his system to be used by other state governments. Graylin's work and others work will form a stepping stone for democracy - transparency of government and bring power to ordinary citizens.
His talk may be found here.
Rcos fall 2010
View more presentations from GraylinKim.
It was an enjoyable and educative experience for me as usual - I learned a lot. Students at RCOS are motivated and dedicated to make their project a success.
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