Fall season is in full swing - the clock is set back to the standard time from daylight savings time. RCOS is also going full blast. With this week, every one has given their first talks (they are more like update talks - the students having done good amount of work) and a couple have given their second talks too. All in all, projects have been progressing well - on the other hand, I wish they could push themselves a bit harder and accomplish more. In a sub reddit at rpi, two rcos projects ( rpidirectory and yet another course scheduler were posted and got a very useful feedback.
This week we had four speakers.
1)Brendon Justin, Austin Wagner, Alex Shulgach, Umesh Jonnalagadda
on Shuttle Tracker http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/mobile-shuttle-tracker/
2) Ben Shippee on BitProspector http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/bitprospector/
3) Timothy Chambers on Semantic ImageBoard
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/semantic-imageboard/
4) Michael O'Keefe on Interminer http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/interminer/
Brendon, Alex and Austin (and Umesh) have been progressing. They have a mock up of their website and and improving their ETA (current one has approximate error of 5 minutes)- Their IPhone and Android Apps have also been upgraded. There were a few suggestions and comments for improving. Their talk slides may be seen here.
Shuttle trackersecondpresentationfall2011
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Next Ben has talked on Bitrospector. Ben had a minor hardware setback with his server. Ben has recovered well. Ben has been progressing well. Ben has been working on the back end. Ben plans to provide some graphical user interface to make his system more functional. There were questions about the future of BitProspector. Ben said that his system is applicable to other systems as well.
Timothy (first time RCOS student) gave an attention gathering on Semantic ImageBoard.
Timothy has implemented part of his system. He is using cakePHP which makes sql query much simpler. The main feature of his system is simple to use, with crowd tagging and hierarchical tagging to make his system easier and fun to use. His talk generated a lot of questions and suggestions.
Michael talked on his open source project on Interminer. He has implemented Pearson correlation coefficient for similarity testing in genes. For more information about the Pearson correlation, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_product-moment_correlation_coefficient
All talks were interesting and I learned something new as usual. One more Friday evening is well spent in the company of wonderful, eager and brainy students.
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