Week 9 (3/29/2013) Spring 2013

Week 9 (3/29/2013) Spring 2013

Semester is going in full steam and the seniors are eager to graduate and the rest are thinking of their summer internship. As usual all of them want to finish their exams/projects and working hard towards that.

We have our usual talks. The following students presented their talks

1) Rachael Redner, Nick Timakondu and Asher  Glick Zadatak http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/zadatak-scheduler-app/

2) Scott Silber, Stephen Perkins RPI Mobile http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-mobile/


3) Alex Freska, (Ian Mcloughlin - where are you in Observatory dashboard) FlowUR  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/flowur/

4) Jordan Yamada and Bharath Santhosh Alfred http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/alfred

Rachael, Nick and Asher talked about Zadatak. Rachael is working on a new GUI for their application (in Android). She showed a nice demo of that. Nick is working on scheduling (back end) - He ran into some difficulties (algorithmic) and he has found a way to overcome. Asher is working on the interface between front and back ends. They expect an alpha release by the end of this semester.

Scott and Stephen talked about their RPI Mobile. They are progressing along well. They plan to include events. Steve is working on the server side (extending James McM's contribution).  UPE has promised to provide the servers for hosting their persistent data.

Alex and Ian talked about FlowUR. Their project is going smoothly. Alex s working on the algorithms for lay out. Ian is working on making this as a 3D appl.

Jordan and Bharath talked about Aflred, a beverage serving Robot. Jordan (and others) are working on the mechanical design and their implementation  They have completed the design in paper and they have started their implementation. They have thought through sensor problems and tires, breaks etc. Bharath is working on the software side (working with a tablet on Alfred). Alfred is supposed to be used on April 13th on accepted students day. Hopefully everything will work out.

Again an impressive talks and useful sharing of knowledge and suggestions made my day!

Week 14 (12/4/2012) Fall 2012

Week 14 (12/4/2012) Fall 2012

This is the last week of presentation for Fall Semester. Not every one presented their second round of talks. The fall semester also rushed by too fast with so many activities.We had six presentations this week..

1) Dan Vegeto, Chris Higley. Rebecca Nordhauser and jesse Freitas, Collective Co                            ngress http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/collective-congress/

2) Rachel Redner, Nick Timakondu, and Asher Glick Zadatak
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/zadatak-scheduler-app/

3) Mike Agnew  ReserveMe  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/reserveme/

4) Brian Barnes and Joshua Mackinen RQ http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rq/

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

6) Colin Kuebler Koala http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/koala/

Dan Vegeto tried to give a demo of the current version of his system. It seems to have a nice feature - But could not appreciate the full feature because of an email glitch.

Rachel, Nick and Asher presented Zadatak - Unfortunately could not appreciate their contribution because of the lack of a cable.

Mike Presented his current status - he is currently formatting the various forms to be submitted.

Brian and Joshua could not proceed much with the project because of understanding javascript details.

Sheena presented Reverse Cookbook - she has implemented many of the features - could not appreciate because of a server crash just before the presentation.

Colin presented his Koala project and his recent accomplishments. He showed a demo and he has many more features including a community website up his sleeve.

Students worked very hard - unfortunately they were unable to show off their accomplishments for reasons beyond their control. Asher gave a wise advise to maintain a weekly schedule and what if scenarios to those  students who plan to finish much of the work during the winter break.

Good Luck and Happy New Year and Holidays to all of you -

Week 8 (10/23/2012) Fall 2012

Week 8 (10/23/2012) Fall 2012

We are more or less done with first round talks after this week. So we had 7 talks - It is very hard to summarize. All the projects are progressing along well. Many of them (talks 3, 5, 6 and 7) showed demos of their projects. There were active participation by other RCOS  students.  There are so many activities (a healthy sign) that foster creativity in and around RCOS. I am glad that I could partake in some of them.

The list of talks that was given are:

1) Dan Vegeto , Rebecca Nordhauser, Jesse Freitas  Collective Congress http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/collective-congress/

2) Ari Munic  RNA Simulation http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rna-simulation-with-simtk/

3) Sheena McNeil   koob kook - A reverse cookbook http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/koobkooc-a-reverse-cookbook/

4) Zachary Jablons, Jerry Schneider Blue Mesh http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/bluemesh/

5) Rachel Redner, Nick Timakondu, Asher Glick Zadatak Scheduler App http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/zadatak-scheduler-app/

6) Brian Barnes - RQ  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rq/

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