8th week of Spring 2011 semester (3/25/2011) - RCOS talk

8th week of Spring 2011 (3/25/2011)

The first week of Spring was not much of a spring weather at Troy. However weather has zero effect on the progress of RCOS projects. We had five great presentations this week.

We had talks and demos by

1)Peter Hajas - MobileNotifier/Widge http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/mobilenotifier/

2) Zachary Clapper and Joseph LaBarbera - Touch of Math http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/touch-of-mathematics/

3) John Dickinson, Alexander Hunt, Frank Koturski and Jonathan Kriss -
Universal Batch Converter http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/universal-batch-converter/


4) Josh Komoroske Tag System http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/tag/


5)Evan Minto- Smart Guitar Chords http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/smart-guitar-chords/


As usual Peter gave a fantastic about his accomplishments with MobileNotifier3 and his progress with his new project on Widge. Peter has been doing great things - His MobileNotifier has been downloaded more than 175,000 times. His talk slides are here.

Mobile notifierspringsecondpresentation

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Zach and Joe L have completely rewritten the back end - The back end is more structured now. Zach is rewriting the front end with css and jQuery. They have been make a steady and very good progress. Their talk slides may be found here.

Touch of-math-rcos

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Universal batch converter group is doing final touches to their software - packaging, more testing and improving the interface and some functionality.

Ubc group presentation_march_25th

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Josh who is doing a RCOS project TAG which tags the files and makes the file search task faster and more efficient. He has his system working and gave a very nice demo.
(This is separate from file system)

His talk may be found here

Tag

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Finally Evan gave his talk Smart Guitar Chords. Evan is a guitar player and a composer. He is building a system he will certainly use. He is building it with qT and C++ His talk may be found here

Smart guitar chords

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Again I heard very nice talks and I learned a great deal. Students asked interesting questions to further understand their projects. I wish more faculty members share this joy!