Saturday, July 21, 2012

Week 9 (7/20/2012) Summer 2012

Week 9 (7/20/2012) Summer 2012
Cause - 7-18-2012

Effect 7-19-2012

Thanks to Asher, we had a successful hackathon on Wednesday (7/18/2012). The turnout was good, the food was better and the progress on the projects are the best - what more can I say.
Proof of the effect of the hackathon is shown above. (I am a firm believer of law of causality!) - this progress would not have been possible without a hackathon.

I have to thank mentors Jorel, Asher and Zach. They make my life extremely simple. With mentors like them RCOS can go a long way!

We had our usual talks this Friday (7/20/ 2012).


1. Priti,Kumar Rebecca Ehrhardt and Chelsea Poirier-Lightning Round http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/lightning-round/

2. Colin Neville Looking for a team http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/looking-for-team/

3. Austin McGuire, and Kegham Khosdeghian milkyway@home


Priti, Rebecca and Chelsea have made phenomenal progress (not as ambitious as they originally planned) - never the less looks pretty impressive to me. They have implemented around 20 games (mostly based on history) - they even showed their demo - I need some time to play that game. All in all a quite impressive task.

Colin has been making a steady progress on Looking for a team. What is impressive was that he was able to take the suggestions presented during his first talk. Colin showed a demo of his system. (it is a preliminary version) - Colin is planning to improve his system (make it robust) and take feeds from github, linkedin and facebook to make the ratings reliable.

Austin and Kegham have been working on Milkyway@home project. Both of them are making an excellent proress. One is working on N-body simulation and the other is working on separation. Please see this website to know what is going on with this project http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

Fabulous talks and a worthwhile afternoon to spend.

Videos of Talks presented during 6th Week

Bobby Zheng Chrnoicle http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/chronicle/






Ian Ooi Big http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/big/



Silber RPIMobile http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-mobile/



Sheena McNeil koob kooc (Reverse of Cook Book) http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/koobkooc-a-reverse-cookbook/




King SMSVending Machine http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/sms-sending-vending-machine/
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