Week 16 (5/12/2015) Tuesday Spring Semester

That is it. We had our last meeting on Tuesday - packed with talks - but not with audience :(

The following people/groups gave talks.

1) Ryan Trinkle '09 - Reflex: Practical Functional Reactive Programming

2) Leopold Joy, Lucien CD - FoosRPI-
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/foosrpi/ (mentor Seve)

3) Sebastian Sarbora, Jazmine Olinger, Brittany Walker, Elizabeth
Dinella -  Neptune - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/neptune/ (mentor
Jazmine)

4) Alan Schimmel, Michael Hosier -  Mini BMS
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/mini-high-power-battery-management-system/
(menotr Eric)

5) Chris Brenon,James Grippo,Kirk Smith,Richie Young - Ballotbox -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/ballotbox/ (mentor Jim)

6) Joseph Monroe, Diego Cepeda, Vincent Cerati - Fitpet-
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/fitpet/ (mentor Jazmine)

7)  Connor Foody, Jon Patsenker - Studyr
-http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/studyr/ (mentor Jim)

8)  - Yufan Lou, Xuan Liu, Nick Smith - YACS++CourseMap
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/coursemap-yacs-catalog/ (mentor Nick)

9) Ming Luo, Seve Ibarluzea, Zaran Lalvani, Forest Crossman and Matthew Vitting, Sia-UI  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/sia-ui/ (mentor Kiana)

Highlights: 
Ryan gave a very nice and easy to understand talk on Reactive Programming using Haskell (web programming , streaming application).  He talked about his library Reflex which makes  this possible,

Leopold and Lucien have completed their FoosBall hardware software interface and had a youtube video of their project. They had used arduino, raspbery Pi , twilio, python for their system.

Much has been accomplished in Neptune - including simulation, hardware and interface. It is still some ways to go - 

MiniBatteryManagement System have fabricated an alpha version. They are refining their design. This project is coming along well.

BallotBox has made a very good progress. They have most of the basic operations working.

FitPet is an IPhone app that monitors the fitness activities using an incentive of pet living well.

Studyr is a project aimed at providing videos lecture notes, problem, past exams among students taking similar courses. The project is yet to mature.

Coursemap is coming along - they show a display of different courses according to the level credits and other filters - Right now it is just a circular display

Sia_UI is coming along very well with Seve leading the group. They have done a sizable portion of the UI implemented. There is also a simulation working. All in all, this project has achieved its goal (assuming the original Sia developers agree).

It is a glorious way to end the semester.

Week 10 (10/28/2014 and 10/31/2014) Fall Semester 2014

We are already two thirds of way into the Fall Semester. Thnigs are moving along. On Tuesday we had four talks

1) Michael Zemsky - BountyBB http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/bandit/
(menor: Michael Zemsky- self mentored?)

2) Evan Thompson, Alex Vargas, Phil LaGambino, Tausif Ahmed - Spoiler-
 http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/spoiler/ (mentor Jim Boultier)

3) Lucien Christie-Dervaux, Leopold Joy, David Chen -  FoosRPI:
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/foosrpi/ (mentor Severin Ibarluzea)

 4) Nicholas Grippo,Sam Seng - Tag-It (Window-World)-
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/window-world/ (mentor Aaron Gunderson)

Mike is working on BountyBB - a distributed file/data sharing platform. He is building a middle layer. He is yet to decidewhat networks to choose. Also the encryption schemes have to be ironed out. 

Spoiler is an ioS and android app to monitor and log driving speeds. They have implemented speed measurement and the logging systems. They have designed the overall system. They have a lot to impleent before the system can be released. They are hopeful.

FoosRPI is a  project to keep track of the scores on the foos tables. They showed a nice demo of the system using ardunio. They are well on their way to completing this project It is very ncie to see freshmen accomplishing so much

Tag it is a social netwrk application where people can tag objects/images/photos/three d- things and make a graffitti . This is a slightly different version of their original project.  The project is still a way to go. But they are making an effort.

 Friday,(10/31/2014) we had a guest speaker  Prof. Philip Guo.

Prof. Philip Guo ( http://pgbovine.net/academic.htm )  gave an inspiring talk about his research (HCI) and choices for graduate studies.

As usual there were a lot of questions and interesting suggestions