Sean O’Sullivan ’85 (Donor of RCOS) Named Entrepreneur of the Year
http://www.rpi.edu/about/inside/issue/v5n13/osullivan.html
Congratulations Mr. Sean O'Sullivan
This week we had five speakers
Zachary Alberico
Priti Kumar (UPE)
Joe Dougherty
Peter Hajas
Moorthy
Zach gave a brief talk about his project (he has been doing that with a few RCOS members) on a social network site for dating. Zach mentioned some of the cool features of his system that overcomes the algorithmic approach of other sites. Zach uses the
power of people to find a near perfect match and cleverly uses a revenue generating mechanism. The implementation language is Ruby on Rails. Zach's challenge is to make
others use his system. Zach's project provokes interesting questions and discussions.
Priti(UPE) talked about ROCS project (online course scheduling project) and possible projects (including project lead and User Interface portion). This is a great opportunity for some RCOS members to undertake.
Joe requested some of the members to take part in the mentoring role. Mentoring has been very effective in past semesters. I find one learns and does best by following/listening to the advise of their friends and peers. Hope we get some volunteers. Thanks to Mike O'K for taking the video.
Peter gave a scintillating talk on how to make an effective presentation. Peter makes his presentation a dialog between him and the audience. Peter also outlined etiquette
for both the presenters (no bullet, no list, more pictures) and for the audience (no laptop, no cell phone, paying full attention).
Moorthy (that is me) extolled the virtues of writing weekly blogs, having time lines, task lists and pushing code early and often.
What a fantastic way to spend a late evening in the midst of bright and eager students!
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