Our Fall RCOS group is going in full swing. All the students are active, vocal and interested in contributing to Open Source Community. I am fortunate to witness the energy and am glad some of their vibrant energy gets transferred to me. I wish other faculty members participate in RCOS, contribute and learn.
Here is a picture of the attentive students listening to a talk.
We had talks by
1) Nate Stedman and Rob Carr
2) Colin Sullivan, Adam Georgiou, Josh Elser (Alumni), Mike Pinkowish (co-op) and Chris Butler
3) Peter Hajas
4) Tim McMullan and Tom Rozanski
5) Michael O'Keefe
All the talks are jaw dropping and wonderfully presented. How else can you explain undergraduate students hanging on a Friday afternoon past 5:00 pm listening to talks!
Nate and Rob are continuing with their work on Ease - Presentation software for Gnome. They are planning to release version 0.4 soon. Nate and Rob are planning to include many plugins to Ease (some of the audience suggestions include plug in to direct twitter feed, plugin to latex to write scientific and technical presentations)
Colin, Adam and Chris presented their concert Sound Organizer useful for a local band members to collaborate and discuss songs. They have a prototype working already. They are doing bug fixes and are planning on utilizing emerging technologies (such as HTML5 and SVG). Their system is awesome and will be useful to musicians who would like to collaborate. Their talk slides may be found by clicking here.
Peter, being an apple fan, is working on a non-obtrusive mechanism for IPhone notification. His presentation was awesome (like every one else this week). Peter knows people who worked on similar systems before. Peter has made a preliminary implementation of his system and a Photoshop of his GUI. A RCOS member suggested Peter to make some of his functions (to create Mobile Notification Application) in a open source library - to enable others to create some other other applications.
Tim and Tom are continuing with their Awesome wave project. Their project is to a part of a stenography project (to code data in a music file without losing the sound quality of the music). Tim and Tom have created a prototype already. They are planning to package, fix the bugs, try with other music file formats and different compression schemes for the data.
Mike is continuing with his CAGE( chronos) project. His project is to create gestures and control using gestures some of the computer applications (including him to move presentation slides by gesture etc - As Eric, an earlier project member aptly mentioned that this project is a minority report style for common men) Mike will package CAGE system for TI wrist watch. His next task is to make his system work with Androids and release it to the market. He is also planning to make CAGe work with Windows. My dream of doing air math may be realized with his android application (at least that is my thinking).
Please look at the dashboard (http://dashboard.rcos.cs.rpi.edu ) to learn more details about their projects. As usual I learned a great deal after listening to these talks.
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