Week 7 (7/7/2015) Summer 2015

RCOS is progressing along well. Thanks to Robert Rouhani who is also helping with mentoring and generally helping  students.  He posted his last weeks talk http://slides.com/robertrouhani/dll-distribution#/

I briefly talked about the nine prisoners problem and how I modified Sudoku backtracking code to solve this problem. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150609-a-design-dilemma-solved-minus-designs/  My comment appears toward the end (and my code is here https://www.dropbox.com/s/evlaru8lseif2hn/nineprisoner.c?dl=0 )

We are continuing in the style of small meeting format.

Jon gave an update of his Table Tome Project. He has been making a steady progress. He was working on authentication and login system. His slides may be found here. http://slides.com/jonathanwrona/table-tome-update

Avi talked about his servo project. He is implementing cut-and paste functionality. He is testing with a small sample code.

Michael talked about his drone project. The parts he has ordered have come. He explained the parts and the work he has got to do. His slides may be found here

https://rcos.slack.com/files/michaelgardner/F079TM0UB/presentation.pdf

Study Buddy Group gave the next presentation. They are progressing well as a team https://rcos.slack.com/files/m.kim.espinoza/F079V1FRR/study_buddy_week_6.pptx

Eve Online Market Analysis has a decent website working. They are planning to implement the backend in node.js and javascript with a  mongo db connection.

Finally Samuel talked about his priorityQ project. It is progressing along. He has shown a few screen shots. His talk slides may be found here https://rcos.slack.com/files/samuelyuan/F07A6SRJ9/priorityq_7-7_update.pptx

All in all, the projects seem to go well.

Week 6 (6/30/2015) Summer Session

Summer 2015 RCOS Students

Thanks to Dr. Goldschmidt for holding the fort for three weeks when I was way in India. He also changed the format - with the group being small we could afford to do it. Essentially our group meeting is like a small, we asked each group to update on their projects.

To start of Rob Rouhani talked about his game playing software (DLL libraries) and how to make a systematic method of generating DLL libraries for various operating systems. His software is being used bya number of people.

Modular drone project is waiting for the parts. Meanwhile they have been progressing with their control software.

Avi talked about his project. Though he did not make progress, his previous patch has been accepted.

Eve on line market Analysis talked next. They showed a static web page. They are having trouble with PHP.  David G has volunteered to help. They are also thinking of moving to Javascript and node.js

Sam talked about Priority Queue. He is making progress slowly but steadily. His webpage is complete. His system uses social aspects to calculate the waiting time.

Study Buddy presentatin went off well. They are making progress both in the backend as well as at the front end (Android).  They had some problem with Git - Luckily Avi was able to help them out.

Memory Mason did not have much to report (Aleksyhas been busy with courses). He has to shape up if he wants to accomplish anything with this project.

Week 1 Summer 2015 (5/26/2015)

Summer session started as soon as I have submitted my Spring semester grades. We have a low key summer with six or seven participants. Hopefully our funding situation will improve in future. As usual, we started the first week with proposed presentations.

Baek is working on an Arduino project involving DIY pressure sensors.
Hasselbach, Weiner and Hu are continuing with their EVE online Market Analysis tool. Their goal is to Multiplayer role playing game and predicting using the market data . They are also interested in making an educational tool for Management students. Samuel Yuan is working a website which will help users to choose a restaurant based on the waiting time. His plan is to include a social enabled website/app, Aleksey Klimchenko is continuing his work on Memory Mason. He wants to have the basic project completed to help with remembering disconnected objects.

Still in the learning mode!