Showing posts with label Big. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big. Show all posts

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Week 11 (8/3/2012) Summer 2012

Week 11 (8/3/2012) Summer 2012

As the summer semester is winding down, students are picking up the momentum. We had a record number of talks this week (which will be broken next week!)

The following are the speakers



2) Amelia Peterson CircuitBox http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/circuitbox/



5) Sheena McNeil koob ooc - reverse cookbook http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/koobkooc-a-reverse-cookbook/

6) Zhixun Wang Djinta http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/djinta/


8) Steve Klenker Open Legislation http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/openlegislation/

With so many talks, it is difficult to summarize. I will try my best

Sean has abandoned Bluetooth connection (BlueMesh) to PC - instead he is concentrating on Android BlueMesh  He has implemented sending messages to a specific android. He has taken care on the sending side of breaking large messages into smaller chunks.

Amelia has implemented time delay issues in the back end and added more digital devices. She also mastered OpenGL for gui front end for next semester.

Mike has implemented the form for items and designed the database and has implemented a GUI front end. He plans to continue working on next semester. Mike demonstrated working of his partial system.

Ian has implemented a sizable portion. All he needs to iron out all the bugs.

Zhixum has implemented both back end and the front end - There were a few bugs (resulting from scipy). He also demonstrated his system.

Kevin talked about  his RPI RFID hardware and software. He has already posted his talk slides here. Kevin also demonstrated his system and it looks pretty cool. He is trying to write an application which uses his hardware and software.

Finally Steve talked about his project on open legislation. He has a mock up how the search box looks lik. He has started implementing his system.

It was a hectic day - never the less a very pleasant one with lots of participation from students including Jerry Shneider who dropped by with donuts to boot!)

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Week 9 (7/20/2012) Summer 2012

Week 9 (7/20/2012) Summer 2012
Cause - 7-18-2012

Effect 7-19-2012

Thanks to Asher, we had a successful hackathon on Wednesday (7/18/2012). The turnout was good, the food was better and the progress on the projects are the best - what more can I say.
Proof of the effect of the hackathon is shown above. (I am a firm believer of law of causality!) - this progress would not have been possible without a hackathon.

I have to thank mentors Jorel, Asher and Zach. They make my life extremely simple. With mentors like them RCOS can go a long way!

We had our usual talks this Friday (7/20/ 2012).


1. Priti,Kumar Rebecca Ehrhardt and Chelsea Poirier-Lightning Round http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/lightning-round/

2. Colin Neville Looking for a team http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/looking-for-team/

3. Austin McGuire, and Kegham Khosdeghian milkyway@home


Priti, Rebecca and Chelsea have made phenomenal progress (not as ambitious as they originally planned) - never the less looks pretty impressive to me. They have implemented around 20 games (mostly based on history) - they even showed their demo - I need some time to play that game. All in all a quite impressive task.

Colin has been making a steady progress on Looking for a team. What is impressive was that he was able to take the suggestions presented during his first talk. Colin showed a demo of his system. (it is a preliminary version) - Colin is planning to improve his system (make it robust) and take feeds from github, linkedin and facebook to make the ratings reliable.

Austin and Kegham have been working on Milkyway@home project. Both of them are making an excellent proress. One is working on N-body simulation and the other is working on separation. Please see this website to know what is going on with this project http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

Fabulous talks and a worthwhile afternoon to spend.

Videos of Talks presented during 6th Week

Bobby Zheng Chrnoicle http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/chronicle/






Ian Ooi Big http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/big/



Silber RPIMobile http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-mobile/



Sheena McNeil koob kooc (Reverse of Cook Book) http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/koobkooc-a-reverse-cookbook/




King SMSVending Machine http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/sms-sending-vending-machine/
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