12th week (8/10/2012) Summer 2012
We had our last group meeting this week. We (students and I) had a blast this summer. The students had a fantastic commitment and it showed in their projects.
We had a record number of talks (we broke the record of last week) of talks. We went from noon to 2:00 p - most of the students stayed back to listen (the donuts, soda in addition to pizza helped a bit :) )
The presenters were:
2) Dan Vegeto and Rob Hollinger Collective Congress http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
3) Jorel Lalici and Tim Cantwell TILaunchPad http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
4) Bobby Zheng Sage - geocoding http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
5) Jim Kalfas Olympus http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
6) Jeongmin Lee CubeBrowser
7) Brian Barnes RQ http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rq/
8) Alex Freska FlowUR http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
9) Asher Glick BriefCase http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
10) Ed Leslie Fenestra http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
11) Andrew Bolin PortSim http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
12) Kegham Khosdeghian and (Austin McGuire) milkyway@home http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
With twelve talks, it is almost impossible to summarize these talks. I will try (like a fool!)
Zach has done his share (or will be at the end of summer) for MathTouch - His demo for algebra was nice (with history and redo/undo feature). Will be a useful tool for children in beginning Algebra
Dan and Rob showed an interesting demo of Collective Congress. A very clever demonstration of the powers of their system (barring not sending the email) it work very nice. Students came up with good suggestions (string duplication and approximate string matching)
Jorel and Tim stole the floor with their final(4!) presentation. They are planning to start a kickstarter company. I was moved when gave me a LED name tag. Their website (opensource hardware) http://www.lib3.com/piled/ - Please support this company!
Bobby talked about his GeoCoder project using tiger data base. He has to do a nontrivial job splitting the street names. He makes of Python shape libraries(?) and his code is (naturally) in python (still needs to compile!) . His program will connect to a Java program (front end)
Jim talked about Olympus front end contribution. His gui and a couple of plug-ins are working (a couple needs more work)
Jeonming has been making progress with his heath visualization (in semantic web) using twitter feed. He showed an excellent demo.
Brain talked about his project RQ. Q (queuing for his winamp) works. R (remote) part needs to be completed (hopefully will be done before the end of summer). He has posted his presentation slides here http://www.slideshare.net/BriGuy92/rq-second-presentation
Alex has been making a very good progress with his FlowUR project. he hopes to release the software before the end of summer. There are many good suggestions from students.
Asher has been making a good progress with his Briefcase project (he has a new syntax highlighter) - a number of students are interested in working on this project. He is breaking into front end and back end parts.
Ed showed his lightwieght windowing system based on X. It has a few bugs - otherwise works very well. He plans to port to other window manager (whose name I forget - a sort of competitor to ratpoison)
Andrew showed off his simulation of generating stock profile data (random). He plans to parse the real data file that he gt recently. Andrews progress is quite nice.
kegam spoke his Milkyway@home project. Kegam is trying to port n body simulation to GPU with double precision and Austin is doing nonintrusive visulizations. They are making excellent progress!
Whew - that is a whole lot of summary! It was an excellent semester and every one learned a ginormous amount! :)
We had our last group meeting this week. We (students and I) had a blast this summer. The students had a fantastic commitment and it showed in their projects.
We had a record number of talks (we broke the record of last week) of talks. We went from noon to 2:00 p - most of the students stayed back to listen (the donuts, soda in addition to pizza helped a bit :) )
The presenters were:
1) Zachary Clapper Touch of Mathematics http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
2) Dan Vegeto and Rob Hollinger Collective Congress http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
3) Jorel Lalici and Tim Cantwell TILaunchPad http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
4) Bobby Zheng Sage - geocoding http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
5) Jim Kalfas Olympus http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
6) Jeongmin Lee CubeBrowser
7) Brian Barnes RQ http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rq/
8) Alex Freska FlowUR http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
9) Asher Glick BriefCase http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
10) Ed Leslie Fenestra http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
11) Andrew Bolin PortSim http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
12) Kegham Khosdeghian and (Austin McGuire) milkyway@home http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
With twelve talks, it is almost impossible to summarize these talks. I will try (like a fool!)
Zach has done his share (or will be at the end of summer) for MathTouch - His demo for algebra was nice (with history and redo/undo feature). Will be a useful tool for children in beginning Algebra
Dan and Rob showed an interesting demo of Collective Congress. A very clever demonstration of the powers of their system (barring not sending the email) it work very nice. Students came up with good suggestions (string duplication and approximate string matching)
Jorel and Tim stole the floor with their final(4!) presentation. They are planning to start a kickstarter company. I was moved when gave me a LED name tag. Their website (opensource hardware) http://www.lib3.com/piled/ - Please support this company!
Bobby talked about his GeoCoder project using tiger data base. He has to do a nontrivial job splitting the street names. He makes of Python shape libraries(?) and his code is (naturally) in python (still needs to compile!) . His program will connect to a Java program (front end)
Jim talked about Olympus front end contribution. His gui and a couple of plug-ins are working (a couple needs more work)
Jeonming has been making progress with his heath visualization (in semantic web) using twitter feed. He showed an excellent demo.
Brain talked about his project RQ. Q (queuing for his winamp) works. R (remote) part needs to be completed (hopefully will be done before the end of summer). He has posted his presentation slides here http://www.slideshare.net/BriGuy92/rq-second-presentation
Alex has been making a very good progress with his FlowUR project. he hopes to release the software before the end of summer. There are many good suggestions from students.
Asher has been making a good progress with his Briefcase project (he has a new syntax highlighter) - a number of students are interested in working on this project. He is breaking into front end and back end parts.
Ed showed his lightwieght windowing system based on X. It has a few bugs - otherwise works very well. He plans to port to other window manager (whose name I forget - a sort of competitor to ratpoison)
Andrew showed off his simulation of generating stock profile data (random). He plans to parse the real data file that he gt recently. Andrews progress is quite nice.
kegam spoke his Milkyway@home project. Kegam is trying to port n body simulation to GPU with double precision and Austin is doing nonintrusive visulizations. They are making excellent progress!
Whew - that is a whole lot of summary! It was an excellent semester and every one learned a ginormous amount! :)
