Week 12 (4/16/2013) Spring 2013
With the Grand Marshal week behind, we are in the final stretch of the semester. We had our usual set of fine speakers.
1) Stephen Silber and Steven Perkins RPIMoble http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
2) Christian Johnson RPI Directory http://rcos.rpi.edu/
3) Ethan Bond, Raymond Jacobson Instant Dropbox Syracuse Hackathon
4) Diogo Moitinho de Almeida, Bharath Santosh, Zach Jablons, Puckmen in Kaggle Compettion
5) Diogo Moitinho de Almeida, Bharath Santosh ProtoML http://rcos.rpi.edu/
6) Tim McMullen, Awesome Wav http://rcos.rpi.edu/
Stephen and Steve talked about their ongoing RPIMobile project. They have been progressing along. With UPE's server, they are planning to have their version in AppStore. Recent improvements include a nice event notifier, and an improved campus map with pins. They showed a demo of their system.
Christian resolved/helped fix the bug with google app-engine API. RPIDirectory is functioning again. Christian has incorporated a cool PhotoMap feature. You can check out here in http://rpidirectory.appspot.com/photomap
Ethan and Raymond talked about their experiences in participating in a hackathon in Syracuse. They won the second prize and a raspberry pi. Their project involved an implementation of a fast drop box like feature for sharing (one need not download drop box) and just share an url. They implemented the whole system in a day (using ruby on rails)
Diogo, Bharath and Zach talked about their experiences in kaggle http://www.kaggle.com/ competition (machine learning) recently. They have decided the blue book value of bulldozers based the past data. they talked about their different techniques, what caused problems, and about bad data. Despite all this, the team puckman finished 101th among 478 teams
http://www.kaggle.com/c/bluebook-for-bulldozers/leaderboard (They slipped from the previous position of 27)
Diogo, Bharath also talked about their RCOS project ProtoML - They used many of the features of PortoML for their Kaggles competition. They showed a demo of their system.
Tim talked about his successful efforts in covering his steganography program Awesome Wav to work using threads. He showed a demo of his system. Tim has to resort to using PThreads for threads. Tim elaborated his difficulties with the file i/o and how he resolved most of them.
As usual there were many interesting questions and suggestions. It was a great learning expereience for me as usual. I will be missing this next two weeks.
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