We are coasting along this semester. Three speakers seem to finish fast (experience so far) and Four speakers (experience last semester) take too long. If only I can get fractional speakers (such as 3.5 or 3.14159!), then we will be in good shape. Joking aside, we had three speakers thsi week. They were:
1) Geoffrey Wright - RPI Planner http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-planner/
2) Zach Rowe - Flagship Safety http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/flagship-safety/
3) Asher Glick and Gabe Malveaux Olympus http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/olympus/
Geoffrey is continuing a project (planner) led by Eric Allen '10. Eric had done an excellent job to map RPI students to plan out their schedule for their entire study. Geoffrey plan to extend this to include plan of study (requirements for all departments), CAPP report, dual major, minor, co-terminal. Doing this will be mind boggling . Only experts like late Dr. Ingalls (CS department) can do this with ease. A computer aided system that Geoffrey proposes will be awesome. Luckily he is sitting on the shoulders of a giant (like Eric Allen)! The implementation language is Java. Geoffrey's talk slides may be found here:
Rpi planner geoffrey_wright_6-17-2011[1]
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Zach has been continuing the work of Brian Michalski on Flagship Geo. Zach is interested in campus safety (emergency call location and status) and crime reports. Zach is planning to work on visualization of crimes over a period time. This is an ideal HFOSS project - helping the community. His project si written on Ruby on Rails.
Zach's talk slides may be found here:
Flagship safety
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Asher and Gabe are working on ease of sever side management. They are using plugin architecture. They are AJAX, CSS, HTML 5, JQuery to accomplish this. They even showed a small demo with a server running from their apartment. I am looking forward to seeing more of their project. Asher and Gabe's talk slides may be found here in this link (need flash support)
http://byares.com/Olympus/OlympusPresentation.swf
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