Thursday, July 31, 2014

Week 11 (7/29/2014) Summer 2014

Week 11 (7/29/2014) Summer 2014

This is the penultimate week of the Summer session. So we had a large number of talks. Unfortunately we did not record the videos as Gabe is out of town for a well earned rest and a visit with his family. A photo taken during last weeks hackathon



1) Kit Hammer & Noelle Todd - Client DB http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/food-pantry-client-database/ (mentor Theo) - 2nd Talk - Great

2) Kevin Sullivan Rise https://github.com/Sidetalker/Rise

3) Maia Marchetti - Milkyway@home Expansion http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/milkywayhome-server-expansion/ (mentor Robert) - 2nd Talk - Great

4) Bobby Parker,Zach Vanderzee and David Koloski- Unity-Open 2D http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/unity-open-2d-toolkit/ (mentor Robert) - 2nd Talk - Great

5)  Peter Kang and Kevin Andrade - AskRPI - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/askrpi/ (mentor Connor) - 2nd Talk - Great

6) Theodore Tenedorio, Tommy Fang, Aman Zargapur -  Pokemon RPI - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/pokemon-rpi/ (Mentor Jim) - 2nd Talk Great

7) Jake Weiss and Roland Judd -  Milkyway@Home - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/milkywayhome/  (Mentor Ji Woong) -2nd Talk Great

8) Jake Lowey and Jonathan Bergman - 3D HCI -  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/3d-hci/ (mentor Jorel) - 2nd Talk Great 

9)  Ravi Panse and Henry Choi - RPHub - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rphub/ (mentor Andy) -2nd Talk Great

10) Michael weldon, Victor Iwasko and Orin Amsden - TextLock - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/textlock/ (mentor Soraya) - 1st Talk

11) Eric Zhang - GitMusic/Cantabile http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/cantabile/ (mentor ?) - 1st Talk

Kit nad Noelle have made a prototype and showed it to the food pantry people(one computer science and one nontechnical). They liked it. They requested feature requests. They hope to have the system done by the end of Fall Semester.

Kevin Sullivan talked about his IPhone application for elevation computation (using GPS and google map api). He is also developing nice 2 D graphics application.His goal is to release the app and then work on 3D maps.

Maia talked about her .new Milkyway@home server. She has done the server side implementation an has tested. She has to port her server.

Bobby , Zach and David have done a marvelous job with unity 2d (now called Pb or Lead) - They have their code forked and they have accomplished everything they set forth. It is indeed the most successful project this summer.

Peter and Kevin have implemented their AskRPi - a mixture of reddit and twitter with a direct email to professor for answers to specific questions. They need a bit more work before they can release their software.

Theodore, Tammy and Aman have made progress with their PokemanRPI. All their background code is done. They now have to customie for the story. They plan to do it during the rest of the summer.

Jake and Roland talked about their use of CMake in making all their code for different machines and their new dashboard. Jake talked about testing their code (of background separation) by creating a model which generates data - this data could be used for testing their code. He also plans to write the code in C, C++ from python to speedup.

Jake and Jonathan talked about their 3D HCI and their progress. They could not show ther demo because of their arduino broke/fired. They have their finger/keyboard gestures working, but not their mouse gestures. They attributed to the problem in accelerometer data. I requested them to post a youtube video of their keyboard gestures working.

Ravi talked about RPIHub - a repository of research projects woth tags. They have a prototype website working. They plan to release it to  RPI community during the fall semester.

Michael,, Victor and Orin talked about their crypted text essaging systems. They showed a demo of their system using androids. The message gets encrypted as it is sent and when it is received by the client, the message gets decrypted. There were a lot of suggestions from students how to improve their system.

Eric Talked about his project gitmusic which is a music collobration system. The git part is till not working. He has a rudimentary editor and he has a rudimentary audio playing system. This project needs more work (partly as he changed his project and there are no mentors). Again the students asked a lot of questions and suggestions.

Again I learnt a lot from attending these talks.

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