Monday, February 4, 2013

Week 2 (1/29/2013) Spring 2013


We had our Spring Group  photo taken (Some of the students had to leave early due to prior commitments).

We had two guest talks and one slide presentations by various groups.
1. Prof James Hendler, Senior Constellation Chair
2. Mr Jackson Zhang -

Prof Hendler has talked about a number of open data initiatives by local, state and federal government. He also narrated is experiences with bigger companies. He suggested a number of open source/open data projects for students. Hope students utilize his resources and strengths to do wonderful and broader impact projects.

Mr. Jackson Zhang   talked about technological start up help for upstate New Yorkers (based out of Syracuse). This is similar to well known Y-combinator   The start up company called Startfest accepts new ideas and funds them for start up and provide mentoring help. Please check out the website and contact Mr. Jackson Zhang if you have any question.

The following students/groups did one slide presentation:

1. Matt Zanchelli - Sonar
2. Stephen Silber IMobile
3. Mike Agnew - PermitMe/ReserveMe
4. Matt O'Brien - Mobile Archery Friend
5. Tim McMullen - AwesomeWav Parallelized
6. Alex Freska - FlowUr
7. Jordan Yamada - Butler(Robotic)
8. Zach Clapper - Penguin Inventory Management System
9. Bharath Santosh, Tim Slowikowski, Dimiti Dimitrov, Ben Aulfeld - Peirce Logic
10. Deon Robinson - FreakAPI - Next Version
11. Asher Glick, Rachael Redner, Nick Timakodu - Zadatak
12. Asher Glick, Elizabeth Towns - BriefCase
13. Brendan Clark, Shawn Denbow - Dr. Memory
14. Dan Vegeto, Jesse Freitas, Dougn Norton - Collective Congress
15. Varun Madiath - SSH Haskel
16. Christian Johnson, Dan Kimball - RPIDirectory
17. Tor Hagermann = LibAlexandria

All the one slide presentations are awesome and their enthusiasm is infectious. Hope many of the projects succeed and many users  benefit from them.

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