Just confirming this is indeed spring semester with flowers blooming and with a sudden spurt of too many happenings in and around the campus. On Thursday, there is an open source festival at SUNY Albany Campus, across the river. There were quite a few talks by open source exponents and leaders in industry, government and students. Our own (RCOS students) Asher Glick, Eliazabeth Townes presented on Briefcase and Dan Vegeto presented a talk on Collective Congress. The Suny Albany Schedule can be seen here and here. With Programming Competition, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Accepted Students Day, and (of course never ending) projects, home works and exams students are extremely busy. Faculty members (including me) have to attend Thesis exams, graduate admissions, advising, course registration and (never ending) tasks of giving home works, projects and tests!
With that background, it may be obvious why we had only two talks this week. The quantity of talks may be low, but the quality is sky high!
This week we had two student talks and a gust talk by John Wesson.
1) Jerry Schneider, Trevor Zettersten, Sean Chase on Blue Mesh,
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/bluemesh/
2) Asher Glick and Elizaeth Towns on Briefcase,
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/briefcase/
Jerry, Sean and Trevor have most of their completed. They have written a beautiful blog post explaining how to use their API. Jerry and Sean also demonstrated their slides application. They are still cleaning out the last bugs. There may be some inherent limitations on the distance and the size of blue tooth.
Asher and Beth presented their Briefcase project. They have made a lot of changes but not pushed for production as they were having series of presentation. Beth is working on the back-end where as Asher is working on the front end and the overall system architecture. One of the things that they have worked on is the atomicity of operation for concurrent updates.
Dr. John Wesson (Guest speaker from Robotics Group at RPI) talked about their projects and solicited students to work on their projects.
I am pleased to have spent Friday afternoon in the company of such bright and energetic students!
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