Sunday, December 18, 2011

More Videos 12/9/2011

More Videos 12/9/2011

Thanks to Mike O'Keefe (December 2011 graduate) and Jorel Lalicki we have most the talk videos posted in rcos youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/rcosrpi1

These are the talks presented on 12/9/2011.


Peter Hajas on Scoop




Christian Johnson, Dan Kimball and Mike Horowitz RPI Directory



Jorel Lalicki Timing Framework



Zack Fry and Bobby Zheng on Crowd Sourcing for Geo Identification




Jerry Shneider on Command Line Interface for Android Programming



John Dickinsond (December 2011 Graduate), Jon Kriss and Frank Kotarski on Convalot



Jarret Kruger on Featherview



Timothy Chambers on Semantic ImageBoard
Talk 1



Talk 2



Tim McMullen and Amelia Peterson on MetaLib

Talk 1

Monday, December 12, 2011

Week 14 Fall (12/9/2011) 2011

Week 14 Fall (12/9/2011) 2011

This was our last weekly meeting for the Fall Semester. We had a near perfect attendance with a few guest students to boot. A group photo and a photo of graduating seniors (Mike O'Keefe and John Dikinson) were taken.

RCOS End of the semester group photo



Graduating Seniors




This week we had 7 presentations:


1) Jerry Schneider: on Command line like display for Android (very brief) https://github.com/schnej7/Android_CommandlineLikeDisplay and http://youtu.be/7epVYRrPnqU

2) Jarrett Cruger: on Featherview http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/featherview/

3) Timothy Chambers on Semantic ImageBoard http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/semantic-imageboard/

4) Peter Hajas: Scoop and Other Cool Projects http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/scoop/

5) Zach Fry, Bobby Zheng on Crowdsourcing Geointelligence http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/crowdsourcing-for-geointelligence/

6) Jorel Lalicki on Timing Framework http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/timing-framework/

7) Alex Hunt, John Dickinson, John Kriss, Frank Kotarski on Convalot http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/universal-batch-converter/

Jerry is one among the two who is giving third talk. He has created a new project on android command line programming - It will be easier for new people to join this project and ease into Android programming.

Jarret is working on Featherview an image view of twitter feeds. He is planning to get images for friends twitter feeds as well as trending images. He is planning to use a POS tagger using NLTK (done by his friends) to find trends etc.

Timothy Chambers is refactoring his code. He has nice implementation. He is planning to use a hierarchical tag system (which he is currently researching on).T

Peter gave a presentation on his new project on ticker display for his MAC. It has an infinite loop and he uses TwUI and he has built a library using this interface.

Zach And Bobby talked about their results using clustering. They were able to identify (using clustering techniques from Amazon data). They had 100% identification of all the houses. Ther results also agreed with MIT CSAIL's report of approximately 60% accuracy among Amazon Turk users.

Jorel gave a presentation of hs tming framework. t has come along fine. It currently works with Microsoft C++ framework. He plans to extend this other IDE's for C++

Finally Alex, JohnD, JohnK and Frank talked about their Convalot system. They are ready to release the second version. It works with different plugins. They were unable to show a demo (with GUI) because of there system upgrade to the latest ubuntu version.

It was a rousing finale to the semester.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Week 13 (12/2/2011) Fall 2011

Week 13 (12/2/2011) Fall 2011

This is the penultimate week of the semester. We had scheduled four student talks and one guest talk. At this time of the year (with winter slowly settling in and the stress levels increasing) two students got sick and could not present.


The speakers for this are:

1) Rob Carr '11 (Canonical/Ubuntu) Working in Free/Open Source Software

2)Joe Dougherty and Tom Rozanski Network Management Systehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifm http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/network-management-system/


3)Zachary Clapper: Touch of Math http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/touch-of-mathematics/


As stated in his abstract, Rob Carr discussed his experiences in working with Canonical/Ubuntu as a Software Engineer. Topics ranged from development models,
business models, to the day to day of working in free software. There were a lot of questions/discussions on the latest Ubuntu release (11.10) Unity. Many of RCOS have detailed questions and suggestions.

Joe talked about Tom and his work on Network Management System. They have used PHP for their implementation. Joe also gave demo of their project and pointed the glitches that current version has had.

Zach talked about his touch of math project. Zach is working on the front end (and Joe L is working at the back end - Joe L is busy with exams at Cornell). Zach has implemented subscript, superscript, reek symbols and variable substitution (and needs a lot of testing).

Again a time well spent listening to these talks.