Week 5 Fall 2011 (9/30/2011)
With Friday and Saturday (9/29 and 9/30) being career fair at RPI, we had a number of alumni returning to RPI for recruiting. We had the pleasure of having a couple of RCOS alumni (Brian Zaik '09'10 and Eric Allen '10 and Dr. Karen Devine '94 ) come to RCOS and share their wisdom. In addition, we had the usual students group presentations by
1) Convalot by Alex Hunt, John Dickinson, Jonathan Kriss and Frank Kotarski
2) Crowd Sourcing for Geo Intelligence by Zach Fry and Bobby Zheng.
3) NumPy for PyPy by Alex Gaynor.
Brian and Karen started by talking the kind of open source work that is going on in Sandia National Labs. Karen had a concise and succinct slides (4) to describe their work. Starting with Chemical simulation to Kernel level work to Load Balancing and the overall system architecture. They emphasized Sandia's goal to service the nation. It is a very impressive talk.
Eric gave an awesome talk on recruiting and offered tips to students (especially working for start up companies). Eric was articulate, entertaining and provided useful information. His talk slides may be found here:
http://bit.ly/rcos_startup_html.
John, Jonathan, Alex and Frank gave an excellent presentation of their file conversion master utility program. They have a done of debugging and their current system is cross platform and looks very stable. They are improving the gui, a few backend fixes.
Zach and Booby talked about crowd sourcing to gather information about satellite images and photos. They are using Amazon's mechanical turk system. They have got some preliminary results. They are continuing to improve their questions and collect more relevant information.
Finally Alex Gaynor talked about his earlier contribution to blazing fast PyPy, a JIT compiler for Python. His current project is to include numpy (numerical python software) to run blazing fast in PyPy. Alex has already implemented some important code towards NumPy for PyPy. Alex is well known in the community about his contributions. We are expecting to see great things from Alex.
Two great Alumni talks, followed by equally great three student talks - what more one needs?
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