Week 6 (6/29/2012) Summer 2012

Week 6 (6/29/2012) Summer 2012

We are roughly at the half way point in our calendar year and middle of summer semester. We hada very hectic week with six scintillating talks.

1. Dr. Luis Ibanez (kitware) - (Guest Speaker) Who writes Linux Kernel

2. Jim Kalfas - Olympus  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/olympus/

3. Dan Vegeto and Rob Hoolinger -collective congress  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/collective-congress/

4. Jeongmin Lee  Datacube Browserhttp://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/datacube-browser/

5. Steve Klenkar Open Legislationhttp://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/openlegislation/

6. Kevin Baker Rensselaer Frequency IDhttp://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rensselaer-phrequency-identification/

Luis gave an inspiring talk about the community aspect in Linux Kernel Development. He emphasized how the kernel development is not monopolized by any company or any one. He also made a point that all projects have the potential to be much bigger than originally planned.

Jim is continuing last summer's project of Asher and Gabe in getting the front end working for server management.(Backend was completed by Asher and Gabe). Jim is using HTML 5, Javascript to accomplish his front end and webinterface.

Dan and Rob presented their project on Collective Congress (continuation of Dan's Spring Project). This project has come a long way. Rob is integrating the data with googleappengine and Dan is working on the front end. They even had a nice demo in which the group voted whether the keep the laptop open or not during RCOS meeting (as a side note, since the question was not formed well, I do NOT know what the students voted for).

Jeonming has been working on the datacube browser - providing different types of visualizations on RDF marked input. Jeoming also showed a cool demo. He is continuing his work with more data and a wide variety o data (including csv data)

Steve is working with NY State Legislation project. Steve is going to provide a better user interface both for expert users and for novices. He plans to have additional visualizations with calender events, bill proceess graph among other things.

Kevin is working on RFID reader chip. He has already designed and the hardware had come. Kevin is planning to test the chip as well as provide cases for both serial and parallel interface. The idea is to use the chip in place of iclicker and for taking attendances. Kevin also showed a very cool demo (and explained the principles of RFID reader). Kevin has also posted his talk slides (Hint to others - please post the slides).

I was very glad to see a number of questions and suggestions from the students. All of them are willing to help and share their knowledge. My only (a big) mistake was to schedule so many talks one day.

Video of Week 5 talks

Andrew Djinta

Brian - RQ



Ari - RNA Simulation with SimTK

Deon - Syllabuson Rails