Week 10 (4/6/2012) Spring Semester
We had yet another hectic week - On Wednesday, we had Undergraduate Research Symposium. RCOS was well represented in poster sessions as well oral presentations (at least 4 in each category). I had hard time in recognizing most of them as they are well suited(!), tied(!) and dressed. :)
On Friday we had a phantom "fireworks" (false fire alarm in JEC with 7 or 8 fire engines coming to help) just before our talks started. All of the students have to go out and brave the cold wind blowing across. To start with we did not have many students (as many of them left for Easter Holidays) and the fire drill drove a few back home. A few, proud ones remained and we had our own "fireworks" of talks!.
This week, we had three talks.
1) Shawn Denbow - Dr. Memory
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/dr-memory/2) Colin Rice - BitHopper
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/bithopper/3) Jinzhen Gong, Jeff Hui - Yacs
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/timetable/Shawn is doing a meticulous job of reverse engineering system calls. He is documenting the calls API. He has almost completed his original goal.
Colin is cleaning up his server code and doing it in a separate branch. His software is used by many (quite a few - the actual count is unknown)
Jinzhen (and Jeff) talked about their YACS 2 release. They have one developer to help them with their project. The statistics (of their software usage) they showed is pretty impressive.
With the semester slowly winding down, every one is busy with school work and other end of the year activities. I am impressed with all the work RCOS students are doing.
