We had two meetings this week - on Tuesday and on Friday. Despite the students being busy with their first exams and career fair, we had a good round of talks and a good set of presentations.
On Tuesday (9/23/2014) we had three talks
1) Dave Vorick - Start up Expereince
2) Huiye, Xitu, Xinchi, Wei, Yiding, Peiyang - ShengGuanTuhttp://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/3) Jake Lowey - IntUI-Scrape - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
1)Browne - Docktor (For OS X) http://rcos.rpi.edu/
2) Dennis Fogerty, Austin Gulati - Whats that Sample -http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/3) Kevin Fung, Chris Brenon - Chlorine http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/chlorine-opencl/
4) Sensen, Aaron, Sam, Amartrya, Shinya - RPI Clubs and Activiteshttp://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
5) Jorel Lalicki URL redirection/enhancing http://yolome.me
Dave Vorick '14 gave an interesting talk based on his expereinces of building his startup - the ups and downs. He also talked about the technical issues (currency for distributed strogae). He talked both about theory (Byzantine protocols and cryptology) as well as the software aspects of them. His talk was very well received by the students after many interesting question/answer exchanges .
Jack Lowey talked about having a GUI to scrape information from websites. His aim is to scrape reddit, car sales and targeted sites. He is making a steady progress (He is using python to scrape sites). The students advise not to scrape sites with no crawl in robots.txt.
Huiye, Xitu, Xinchi, Wei, Yiding, Peiyang talked about ShenGuanTu. The team has increased from last summer. But they have broken their group into people doing subtasks. Each of the group members talked about their contribution. Their talk looked impressive. They sowed a youtue version of their game steps. They are advised to integrate the different groups contibution into the main game earlier otherwise it may be difficult to do that later on.
On Friday, we had five talks.
Theo started giving the current status of his Docktor project for Macs. He has completed many aspects of that project. He also plans to release a version for IPad. He is als planning to make it work under apples newest operating system.
Dennis and Austin arr working an android app to recignize the music that is being played and provide further information. It amounts to samling the music and comparing with a dictionary of music. They have started and have a mock up diagram for their app.
Kevin and Chris talked about their near complete Chlorine system. It is an easy to prototype parallel programs using their system for graphics processors. It is written in opencl. They showed how to create parallel programs on the fly. They also demoed with writng a fractal program ad showed the speed up. It was awesome. This system is already used in Naval Ressearch Center (where Kevin worked as an intern).
Sensen, Aaron, Sam, Amartrya, Shinya talked about a website for clubs and activities. Their presentation detailed what the group was doing each week. (I really liked seeing them - It gives me a clear picture of their efforts). They have a website dedicated to their project. Their login system is almost working. Next task is to get the meeting times and events They also want to incorporate social aspect to their system (There was a pertinent question why some one would prefer this to a facebook group - They had an answer and I could not hear their answer properly - my only rationale it is a stand alone works even without a facebook account). There are a couple of useful suggestions about using other existing libraries to make their task easier.
Jorel gave a fascinating talk about URL enhancer/redirector. Unlike url shortneer, it enhances it (makes it bigger!). He has implemented using PHP. He gave a cool demo of this system http://yolome.me/
His presentation can be found here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctsgSidJ27Czp47X42wHLLW0vNGzuePAmzv53QA-DyU/edit#slide=id.p and his repo can be found https://github.com/jorellalicki/yolomemegeneratorplugin . People interested in contributing to this project may contact hashtag@yolome.me
Google groups https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rcos-at-rensselaer/s-7kT7C_Y3Q
On the whole, it was a very good week - I thoroughly enjoyed all the presentations. I also get to meet some of our distinguished alumni who dropped on our Friday meeting.
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