Week 14 (11/25/2014) Fall semester 2014

This is ou thanksgiving week. So we had only meeting this Tuesday. The following groups presented their talks

1)  Brian Kelley, John Behnke, Zachary Minster, Aleksey Klimchenko -
Where R U? http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/where-r-u/ (mentor Jim
Boulter)

2) Branden Clark, Ze Qin, Toshi Piazza - Dynamorio
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/dr-memory/ (mentor Joshua Makinen)

3) Wyatt Kroemer, Drake Perrior-Small, John Drogo, Mason Cooper, Lavin
Aro CMS http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/aro-cms/ (mentor Kevin O'Connor)

4) Alex Freska and Logan Shire - React/Grapefruit - (mentor David Goldschmidt)

5) Dan Fang, ZeXin Wan - Smart Schedule
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/smart-schedule/ (mentor Moorthy)

Where  R U project is coming along well. They have not yet completed the project. Portions of it  are completed. They are building both IPhone and Android app for picking passengers for their rides. Thy also showed a demo. Their backend is also working.

Dynamorio poject involving fixing the various bugs.  They also showed a demo of the usefulness of DYnamorio in finding malwares. Their talk slides may be found here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aqjUm3ul1psUOTqGqfvGg9PxXMJ2PVvst-9ZDp6uLXI/edit#slide=id.p . A demo of using their program to detet malwares may be found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-QdHYf9NRFweEZfWXFBaVRvWlk/view (run time patching) - This is a tar gzipped file.

AroCMS has progressed further. They showed an alpha version of their program. They have api for various plug ins. They showed a cool demo. They used MEAN stak for their development. Most of it is in Javasript. I really hope that this project takes off.

Grapefruit/react project is going eally picking up steam. They have made a fast (reactive) GUI based on Javascript. - Most of the work is done in client side. Thei GUI also enables easier use of Grapefruit by the faculty members. Their project was liked by RedHat people and wanted them to showcase their project in SIGCSE conference.

Smart Schedule is more of a learning project. They are producing a calendar system for IPhone. They showed a demo. To make this project more interesting and different, they have to combine with weather indicator and availabilty indiator to predict about scheduling.  I doubt whether that will be done this semester or next.

There were many interesting questions as usual.  It was a time well spent and leanred a lot of new things. I wish I could retain most of the information! :(