Week 5 (2/22/2013) Spring 2013

Week 5 (2/22/2013) Spring 2013

This week was President's day week - RPI had a holiday on Monday (Please see a nice LA Times cross word puzzle here based on presidents' theme!) and we had Monday schedule on Tuesday! So our regular meeting took place on Friday instead of Tuesday.  I am really happy to see so many green smiley faces in http://rcos.rpi.edu/ (21 of 34 projects updated, 18 of 34 repositories updated and 15 of 34 blogs updated! ) - Great job and also thanks to Colin Rice for stepping to be a sysadmin.

We had the following speakers


1) David Vorrick, Sean Moran, Forest Trimble, Luke Champign and Wyler McAninch-Ruenzi
- Linux Video Processing Program http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/mkvsynth/

2) Sean Chase,Amelia Peterson and, Tiffany Entwistle - Lasers and Logic http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/lasers-and-logic/

3) Shawn Denbow, Brendan Clark - Dr, Memory http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/dr-memory/

4) Ethan Bond, Nikhil Srinivasan, Austin Gulati, Damian Mastylo and
Raymond Jacobssen  - Baby Notes http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/babynotes/

5) Christian Johnson and Dan Kimball  - RPIDirectory  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-directory-app/

6) Jorel Lalicki, Brian Barnes, Jonah Gruber, Justin Jones, Monica
Kosciu and Andrew Lynch - Open Source Spectrometer...  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/open-source-spectrometer/

David, Sean, Forest, Luke and Wyler talked about their video processing system for linux.  They are progressing along. Their idea is to get a simplified version working. One of their stumbling blogs is to write an interpreter for a scripting language.  As usual there were a number of suggestions and volunteers to help them. I am also glad to see tat te work gets divided among group members.

Sean, Amelia and Tiffany talked about their lasers and logic game. Since their project involves both hardware and software, they are progressing on both ends. They even had a working (almost working) demo of their hardware/software. 

Shawn and Brendan talked on their project Dr. Memory. Brendan is getting familiar and building it on Fedora. Shawn is continuing his work on windows 64 (for windows 8/7) system calls.

Ethen, Nikhil, Austin, Damian and Raymond are making great strides with Baby Notes. They have a schedule and they are closely sticking with the schedule. Their project which monitors/takes notes on their baby progress will be easily adaptable to other situations (where one wants to monitor) and consult with social community 

Christian and Dan reported their progress with API documentation and intelligent search for RPI Directory. They also reported that the RPIDirectory for Androids are out in the play story.

Jorel, Brian, Jona, Justin, (Monica) , Tim and Andrew talked about the Spectrometer project and another project on capacitance for Physics 2 lab. Both projects are progressing along.  The capacitance project is almost done.  

I was elated to see the progress and the active participation. I am really privileged to be associated with this group.

  

Week 6 (10/12/12) Fall 2012

Week 6 (10/12/12) Fall 2012

RCOS students on Open CS Day (10/13/12)

With a compressed week of 4 days (because of Columbus Day weekend), RCOS students accomplished in 4 days what could be accomplished in 5 days!. Please see RCOS students in Open house here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.454650024577901.99346.194611683915071&type=1

We had a great set of talks presented this week.

1) Jorel Lalicki (actually a short presentation... makerfaire etc.) MakerFaire Trip report http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/9158

Jorel gave a presentation about his experiences in Maker Faire - Jorel had a great time and his project attracted around 500 visitors (including open hardware people, TI engineers and Startup firms). 

2) Beth Werbaneth Kinect Gesture Library http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/kinect-gesture-library/

Beth's project is to build kinect library for motion sensing. Her project is coming along. Here is her youtube presentation
  

3) Bharath Santosh and Dimitry Dimitrov Peirce Logic http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/peirce-logic/

Bharat gave a status update of his project - a simple system to learn propositional logic. The only operator is the cut operator. Using the operator, one can build any propositional logic expression. He has completed three of the four macro level constructs. Dimitri is working on GUI and Bharat is working on the backend - He is using javascript as an implementation language with rafael.js 
Bharat demoed his system.  There were interesting questions and suggestions from the participants.

4) Nick Pachulski Food Friend http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/food-friend/ 

Nick is making an IPhone and IPad application for buying groceries with limited budgets. Final goal is to make his system usable by fraternities. Nick is using Ruby on Rails. Nick has been making a steady progress. Since this is a large project, Nick may want to have some milestones for his own good.

5) Colin Rice bitHopper  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/bithopper/

Colin has been working on bitcoin. He has making substantial progress - currently his project involves pool jumping.

6) Shawn Denbow and Brendan Clark Dr. Memory http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/dr-memory/

Shawn and Brendan (freshman) are going strong with Dr. Memory. Shawn has already added many 64 DLL calls to Dr. memory.  Brendan is catching up with understanding Dr. memory.

7) Brendan Ashby - pLANer - Re-factored DB and GUI code. :) http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/planer/

Brendan is concentrating on GUI and the data base. Brendan has made very good progress. Since he is the lone person working on his project.  he is restricting the scope the project. Brendan also showed a demo of his project.

Again I learned a lot from the students' presentations and questions and suggestions.