Week 11 (11/13/2012) Fall 2012
Today was total solar eclipse in New Zeland and Australia (happened around 3:30 pm EST) - I was watching it in google hangout - almost missed attending the wonderful meeting of RCOS. Jorel has uploaded almost all the video of talks in youtube. RCOS channel is http://youtube.com/rcosrpi1 We had six talks to day.
1) Matt Zanchelli Sonar and IOSPasscode http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/sonar/
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/ios-passcode/
2) Kyle Keraga and Shoshana Rubinstein CLASS Initiative - Study Groups
4) Thomas Chestna Scrutiny http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/scrutiny/
5) Prof. Magdon Malik Ismail
6) Damian Mastylo, Austin Gulati, Chris Celi The Collegiate http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/the-collegiate/
Matt Z started off with his IOSPasscode and explained some of the details. It is already in the appstore and has been downloaded at least 1000 times and has been getting good reviews. He is currently making his system available in many languages. Matt also demonstrated the working his system. His current project Sonar is for reporting bugs. He has been making a steady progress and he has not integrated with mailer yet. There were interesting discussions.
Kyle and Shoshana (Student Senators) presented a project from Student .Senate. They want to develop a system to form study groups. They want to have this system as an opt out system. Their proposed system uses data from rpilms and registrar. My main concern is the privacy issues and administration trusting students developing the system - Of course once the system is developed some one has to maintain it. Hope the student senate is powerful enough to resolve this. Interesting discussions followed.
Asher presented RFID project. Their system used Processing for GUI . Because of lack of portability, they are moving to PyQt. Asher showed a demo of the working of his system. Right now it works only with a laptop/computer. RFID works like a charm. Hopefully RCOS will be able to use the system for taking attendance :) Stand alone system has some bugs and they are ironing out. Hopefully RFID will be rolled out soon. A lot of questions/suggestions were made by the students.
Tom presented his Scrtiny system. He has been doing a lot oof back end job. He is trying to parallelize his back end to make it faster. He plans to have a nice gui to highlight the similarity and differences of programs. Tom plans to test out with instructors in programming intensive courses.
Prof. Malik gave an interesting tutorial on Machine learning. He peppered his talk with thought provoking questions and puzzles. He talked very briefly about supervised learning, unsupervised learning and reinforced learning. He also cautioned about overfitting data. He closed his talk posing three challenging puzzles.
Damian, Austin and Chris talked about their Android project to help maintain schedules/classes/exams/how to get good grades etc. They have made substantial progress. They also have evenly divided their project among the three of them- It is an impressive achievement for any one - especially for a freshmen group. They plan to release a version by the end of this semester.
All the talks were excellent - as usual I learned a lot from listening to the talks as well insightful questions from other students.
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