Students are presenting the first talks. We had four wonderful talks.
1) Alex Gaynor - numpy http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/numpy-for-pypy/
2) Beth Werbaneth, Justin Renga, Griffin Milsap, Colin Neville - ReRoot
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/reroot/
3) Zach Clapper - Touch of Math http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/touch-of-mathematics/
4) Shawn Denbow - Dr. Memory http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/dr-memory/
Alex is continuing with his work on numpy to pypy. This effort will facilitate legacy FORTRAN (scientific) program to work under pypy - which will enable wider acceptance of Python among scientists. Using cypes as wrapper, these programs are imported. I am confident some womderful thing will come out of his work.
Beth, Justin, Colin (and Griffin) talked abou reroot - The aim is to enable Android as a console for video games , flipping power point slides. As per their research proposal, Reroot is an Android application which enables the user to fully control their computer’s input devices over a wireless network.
They are also working on accelerometer so that they can simulate wii like devices. They also showed a demo of their current implementation. Their presentations elicited a lot of questions
Zach is continuing his work on Touch of Maths. His current semester plan includes working inside the expression, having a history, making it stable Zach also showed a demo of the current status. Some of the questions include to have lesson plans under Touch of Mathematics.
Finally Shawn gave an excellent presentation of Dr. Memory. Shawn is working with Dr. Derek Bruening (Google) This is part of the DynamoRIO His project is to reverse engineer Microsoft function calls. Shawn has already reverse engineered quite a few function calls.
It was a wonderful way to end the week Talks and the interactions made me forgot all about my frustrations with the malfunctions of my laptop and desktop!
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