Week 13 (11/27/2012) Fall 2012
This week was the penultimate week. Every one is hard pressed for time. Exams, projects and other projects keep all the students very busy. I am glad at least a few students volunteered to give presentations of their projects. The students who presented include:
1. Asher Glick BriefCase and other side projects http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/briefcase/
2. Zhixun(Andrew) Wang Djinta and other side project http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/djinta/
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/peirce-logic/
4. Jerry Schneider Emulator http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/the-emulator-project/
Asher gave an update of their Briefcase project. It looks all the pieces are done now. He did not have server running to give a demo. By all accounts a version of briefcase (with multiuser editing and code highlighter) is working now. Hopefully it will be released before beginning of Spring Semester. If I understood his talk properly, Asher's briefcase can also be used for concurrent code editing. Asher also talked about his comment making program. It is a small light weight tool and does cool things. Better yet, this tool has been used at least by one other person!.
Zhixun briefly mentioned one additional feature (of calculation) in his Djinta project. He talked out his other project of users distinguishing between TED http://www.ted.com and Onion (spoof of TED) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/25/the-onion-eviscerates-social-media-experts_n_2188593.html
Zhixun has created a website with links to two videos and ask users to identify which one is which - Then he said it may be viewed as a classification problem (and use machine learning techniques).. Zhinxun gave a cool demo of his website (uses sqlite and jquery) with a provision of users to provide inputs for links to TED and onion videos.
Bharat and Dimitre gave a presentation of Peirce Logic. They have a come long way. Their system is almost to be used by the cognitive science course (from where the idea for this project came). They gave a nice demo of the functioning of their system (storing of proofs and retrieving old proofs is in the works). But their undo feature (which they implemented) is very nice.
Gerry gave a presentation of yet another side project of his namely Emulator project. He has implemented a lot more games, cleaned up the code have a working timer. He gave a demo which is very impressive.
There were more side projects presentation than actual projects. That is fine - as long as some useful code gets generated. It will be nice to have progress with original projects also.
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