Week 11 (7/29/2014) Summer 2014

Week 11 (7/29/2014) Summer 2014

This is the penultimate week of the Summer session. So we had a large number of talks. Unfortunately we did not record the videos as Gabe is out of town for a well earned rest and a visit with his family. A photo taken during last weeks hackathon

1) Kit Hammer & Noelle Todd - Client DB http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/food-pantry-client-database/ (mentor Theo) - 2nd Talk - Great

2) Kevin Sullivan Rise https://github.com/Sidetalker/Rise

3) Maia Marchetti - Milkyway@home Expansion http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/milkywayhome-server-expansion/ (mentor Robert) - 2nd Talk - Great

4) Bobby Parker,Zach Vanderzee and David Koloski- Unity-Open 2D http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/unity-open-2d-toolkit/ (mentor Robert) - 2nd Talk - Great

5)  Peter Kang and Kevin Andrade - AskRPI - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/askrpi/ (mentor Connor) - 2nd Talk - Great

6) Theodore Tenedorio, Tommy Fang, Aman Zargapur -  Pokemon RPI - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/pokemon-rpi/ (Mentor Jim) - 2nd Talk Great

7) Jake Weiss and Roland Judd -  Milkyway@Home - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/milkywayhome/  (Mentor Ji Woong) -2nd Talk Great

8) Jake Lowey and Jonathan Bergman - 3D HCI -  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/3d-hci/ (mentor Jorel) - 2nd Talk Great 

9)  Ravi Panse and Henry Choi - RPHub - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rphub/ (mentor Andy) -2nd Talk Great

10) Michael weldon, Victor Iwasko and Orin Amsden - TextLock - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/textlock/ (mentor Soraya) - 1st Talk

11) Eric Zhang - GitMusic/Cantabile http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/cantabile/ (mentor ?) - 1st Talk

Kit nad Noelle have made a prototype and showed it to the food pantry people(one computer science and one nontechnical). They liked it. They requested feature requests. They hope to have the system done by the end of Fall Semester.

Kevin Sullivan talked about his IPhone application for elevation computation (using GPS and google map api). He is also developing nice 2 D graphics application.His goal is to release the app and then work on 3D maps.

Maia talked about her .new Milkyway@home server. She has done the server side implementation an has tested. She has to port her server.

Bobby , Zach and David have done a marvelous job with unity 2d (now called Pb or Lead) - They have their code forked and they have accomplished everything they set forth. It is indeed the most successful project this summer.

Peter and Kevin have implemented their AskRPi - a mixture of reddit and twitter with a direct email to professor for answers to specific questions. They need a bit more work before they can release their software.

Theodore, Tammy and Aman have made progress with their PokemanRPI. All their background code is done. They now have to customie for the story. They plan to do it during the rest of the summer.

Jake and Roland talked about their use of CMake in making all their code for different machines and their new dashboard. Jake talked about testing their code (of background separation) by creating a model which generates data - this data could be used for testing their code. He also plans to write the code in C, C++ from python to speedup.

Jake and Jonathan talked about their 3D HCI and their progress. They could not show ther demo because of their arduino broke/fired. They have their finger/keyboard gestures working, but not their mouse gestures. They attributed to the problem in accelerometer data. I requested them to post a youtube video of their keyboard gestures working.

Ravi talked about RPIHub - a repository of research projects woth tags. They have a prototype website working. They plan to release it to  RPI community during the fall semester.

Michael,, Victor and Orin talked about their crypted text essaging systems. They showed a demo of their system using androids. The message gets encrypted as it is sent and when it is received by the client, the message gets decrypted. There were a lot of suggestions from students how to improve their system.

Eric Talked about his project gitmusic which is a music collobration system. The git part is till not working. He has a rudimentary editor and he has a rudimentary audio playing system. This project needs more work (partly as he changed his project and there are no mentors). Again the students asked a lot of questions and suggestions.

Again I learnt a lot from attending these talks.

Week 9 (7/15/2014) Summer 2014

Week 9 (7/15/2014) Summer 2014

Summer session is speeding along. We have only three more meetings left. Hope most of the projects have been progressing well. With the upcoming hackathon (sign up link http://goo.gl/ePkBDe ) this coming Saturday, I do hope that there will be greater progress with the projects.

We had six talks this week. The following groups presented their progress with their projects.

1) Ezra Dowd and Tahsin Loqman -  RPI Walk http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-walk/  (mentor Robert Rouhani) - 2nd Talk (great job)
2) Theodore Tenedorio, Tommy Fang, Aman Zargapur - Pokemon RPI  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/pokemon-rpi/ (mentor Jim Boulter)
3)  Courtney Lang, Brandon McLear, Kirk Smith - Kitchen Assistant http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/kitchen-assistant/ (mentor Aaron Gunderson)
4) Aaron Gunderson and John Yannou - Whiteboard http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/4xb/ (menotr Aaron Gunderson) 2nd Talk (great job)
5)  Andy Kakkaramadam and Stephen Romano - RoomScheduler http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/roomscheduler/  (mentor Andy Kakkaramadam ) - 
6)  Ravi Panse and Henry Choi - RPHub  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rphub/ (mentor Andy Kakkaramadam) -

Ezra and Tahsin are progressing along with RPI Walk as they gave their second talk. Icons are up and the routing algorithm works and handicapped access information is also there. They are using Open Street Map now. (They are also investigating the use of Google Maps). They showed a nice demo.

Theodore and Tommy talked about PokemanRPI. They have adapted Pokeman to RPI campus setting and the dialog uses RPI jargon. They have done the game mechanics, created their own tile editor. Even though much remains, they plan to have a simplified working version by the end of the summer. They also showed a demo.

Courtney and Brandon talked about Kitchen Assistant. They use Django framework, sql and python for development. They are making good progress in their project. Showed a sdemo of the current version. They have implemented a preliminary registration and logging and a database schema. Their system will have a shopping list (units is a problem) recipes and recipe filtering. They have more work left to do - but they hope to have a version by the end of Summer.

Aaron and John gave their second talk on Whiteboard. John is concentrating on the rankings of which home works to be done and when so as to get the best possible GPA for the semester. Aaron is geeting the assignments and start tie working. This is their second talk. They have made great progress. They are currently not doing the section related work. Their talk slides are here http://slides.com/aarongunderson/whiteboard#/

Andy and Stephen talked about the room scheduler project (central place to serve as amap for RPI). They have collected various data and put them in a data base. (mongo db) They are yet to do the front end. Their talk slides can be found here http://prezi.com/1oqqxnmu8mla/roomscheduler/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Ravi and Henry talked about their project RPIHub. Their idea is to collect research projects from various faculty members so that searching for a URP is much simpler. They are doing it as a webservice. They have done preliminary implementation. They hope to complete their project before the end of summer.

All our talks are online at http://youtube.com/rcosrpi1

As usual there were a lot of useful questions and suggestions from the students. That make the whole thing very pleasant and a learning experience. An afternoon well spent.