Sunday, December 7, 2014

Week 15 (12/2/2014) Fall Semester 2014

This is the last meeting of our Fall Semester 2014. We did not make the same mistake like last semesters (ut may have committed new ones :( ) I am satisfied with overall proceedings of the semester. But it did require a lot of efforts from various people. I should thank the lead mentors and all the mentors and Dr. Goldschmidt for thei part in making this semester a success.

The following groups made presentations:

1) Jake Lowey- SpokenMedia  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/spokenmedia/
(mentor Aaron Gunderson)
2) Jonathan Wrona, Dan Lowe - DnD5e Toolbox
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/ibeis/ (mentor Zach Jablons)
3) Amartya Chakraborty,Shinya Hirata,Sam Yuan,Sensen Chen,Aaron Cheng
- rClubs.me - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-tradebook/ (mentor
Jorel Lalicki)
4) Kevin Fung, Darren Lin, Garrett Chang - Emissary
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/emissary/ (mentor Kevin Fung)
5) Arya Seghatoleslami,Tom Yang and Jeemiah Hendrix  - YumYum! -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/yumyum1/ (mentor Alex Freska)
6)Chenrui Cao, Xi Xi, Renjie Xie, Juntao Zhuang - 2W When and Where
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/2w-when-and-where/ (mentor Nicholas Pitt)
7) Emmett Hitz and Paul Revere - Vest -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/vest/ (mentor Theo Browne)
8)Eric Oswald, Jorel Lalicki - Adaptable Automotive sensor
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/adaptable-automotive-sensor-logger/
(mentor Aaron Gunderson)

Spokenmedia was a new project (changed from 3D HCI) mid way through the semester. Thius project uses Dragon software and Microsoft's C++ (or is it C sharp). He could not show the demo - He is making a steady progress.

DnD5 is anew project (started after RPIHack) for playing dungeons and dragons. The have done some preliminary implementation. They plan to get the data (manual for the game) fromc crowd -sourcing. They also making sure that no violation against copy-rights. 

rClubs.me have progressed reasonaly well. They showed a demo. Main concern is the data for various clubs. Union is also starting  a new wbsite. As one poster mentioned it may worth joining efforts. rClus  also seem to include social aspects - I do not know the effect of this.

Emissary is a javascript (from python) program to watch the league of legends. They have made very good progress and they showed a demo.

YumYum project has come a long way. They included information aout downtown restaurants. They have uilt the system using Ruby on Rails.

When and Where is a websevice (written in PHP) for knowing uilding openings and facilities available in that uilding. They also showed a demo of their project.

Vest is a project to find potential victims from past crime data (based on a paper by a Yale Sociologist). They have scrapped faceook to get the friend of crime victims. Their next job is to verify aout the hypothesis.

Automative log sensor project is nearing its completion. Most of the programs and the circuit designs have been done. Remains to be incorporated in the automobile.

Finally a new project to install free ooms in a library notifier was proposed. This project was done in conjunction with RPI librray (has the blessings of Mr. Mayo).

Very nice talks and very interesting questions. I provided ice cream cake for all their efforts to show my token of appreciation.