We had a couple of distinguished visitors today. Prof. George Nagy (ECSE at RPI) and Prof. Steffano Ferrilli (Bari, Italy). We had two talks by students and we watched two TED videos Dr. Hans Rossling.
Student talks are by
1) Tom Chestna - Scrutiny http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/scrutiny/
2) Nick Pachulski - Koala http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/koala/
We have all of our talk videos on line (thanks to Riley Hamilton) http://www.youtube.com/rcosrpi1
Tom is working on Scrutiny, a project to check plagiarism. This project was started by RCOS alumni Rob Escriva and Rob is mentoring Tom. This is a beautiful partnership of two smart heads working together. Tom showed his contribution and he gave a very fine talk. His talk attracted a lot of interesting and probing questions from students, visitors. Tom
defended the questions. Tom hopes to deploy the software before the end of Summer. His talk slides may be found here.
Scrutiny 07-01-2011.pdf
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Video of Tom's talk may be found here:
Nick had some problems with power point slides and with adapter to his mac book. Colin (mentor for Nick) came to rescue and gave a short introduction. Nick is a bit inexperienced and as an adviser I should take the blame of not prepping him for the talk. Considering all this, Nick gave his talk (albeit short) and Nick has contributed code and to blog. Nick (from his latest blog post) looks like he is getting a hang of Git. His talk slides may be found here.
Koala pres1
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Nick's talk video may be found here.
Since we had two talks we decided to watch two TED videos on visualization by Hans Rossling (http://gapmider.org ) - who has done seminal work on visualization.
First talk is about aids in the world
Second talk is about Asian economic ascendancy and problems Asian country
faces.
Hope our future talks will continue to evolve and show the progress made.
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