Coordinating Instructor:

Richard LeBlanc
rich@cc.gatech.edu
404-894-2592

Beginning on Monday, May 22, there will be no regular class meetings.  Scheduled class hours are to be used for group meetings and for two presentations later in the term.

Final Presentation Schedule -- as of 7/16

The presentations will be at our usual class time on these days, 1:20 - 2:30 PM.

Final Presentation Description

Like your midterm presentations, these presentations should be about 15 minutes long, to leave a little time for questions.  This time, each presentation should include at least the following components:

(1) A concise statement of the goal or vision for the project and a brief description of the requirements derived from the goal.
(2) A description of what you accomplished during the semester and a demonstration, if feasible.
(3) A discussion of how well the results matched your initial plan, including the reasons for any significant deviations from the plan.
(4) A few words about what you learned from this experience.

Since everyone on each team is supposed to do a part of one of the two presentations, be sure that the team members who didn't present at mid-term do the major part of this one.  It's ok for someone to be part of both, but not as the primary presenter.
 

Course Description and Information

Course objectives:  Students will develop and demonstrate their abilities to work in a team on a substantial software project.  There are three conceptual parts to the project efforts expected of each team:

1. Define the problem
2. Design and implement a solution
3. Deliver the system to the customer

 

• Projects will be done by teams of four or five students.  You  may choose your own teammates.
• Each team will have a faculty advisor and (usually) a separate customer.  The job of the customer is to negotiate the project requirements with the team and to provide ongoing input about proposed solutions.  The faculty advisor will meet with the team on a regular basis to monitor progress, make sure the team is following a coherent process, and assist with team organizational problems.
• Each team will present a midterm report and a final demo and report to their advisor, their customer, and the advisor and members of another group.

Week of May 15: group formation and project selection

Week of May 22: work with customer to develop a requirements specification

Week of May 29: complete a project plan and begin development of a design document

Week of June 19: Mid-Term presentations

Week of July 24: Final presentations

Process Document

HTML version of the Lightweight Software Process document

Recommended Text

On Time, Within Budget,  E.M. Bennatan, Wiley, 1995.

Team Information

• Team numbers will be sent to via e-mail to gt accounts as the instructor is notified about teams.

• Given that your team number is N, you have the following resources available:
• project file space in /net/hc26/class/3351a/Projects/TeamN
• web space in /net/www/classes/AY2000/cs3351a_spring/Projects/TeamN
• unix file group cs3351tN (group owner of the above directories)
• mailing list cs3351tN

Teams & Advisors

Descriptions of Project Ideas

• Intel-sponspored projects involving voice input and output

See descriptions here
Contact: Jim Larson <jim.a.larson@intel.com>
 
• Security projects - Internet voting

Contact: Blaine Burnham  burnham@cc.gatech.edu
See descriptions here
 
• Web site development for GTRI EMTEF

Contact: Richard Odom <richard.odom@gtri.gatech.edu>
                phone: (404) 894-7246

With the change in business advertising, and the accomplishments of the web, commercial companies are moving toward a business to business solution utilizing web sites.  The EMTEF needs a dramatically enhanced web site and strategically placed advertisements to enhance the exposure of this facility.  The first and foremost aspect to improve the exposure of these facilities to industry requires the redevelopment of the current web site by  web site designers who can enhance the presentation of the web pages as well as improve the number of hits.

For more details, see here
 

• The Aware Home

1) Make PinPoint positioning system work in the experimental house.
This is a system that uses microwaves to track active badges. The system
is in the house, and software needs to be written to make use of it and
calibrate it.
More info on the system: http://www.pinpointco.com
More info on the house: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/house
Customer: Prof. Gregory Abowd   abowd@cc.gatech.edu

2) Implement paging services. We are getting 40 2-way pagers from
Motorola and would like to use them for some location and
collocation-based reminder services.  We would also like to use these
as remote interfaces to the home (monitoring and possibly controlling
things).
More info on the house: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/house
Customer: Prof. Gregory Abowd    abowd@cc.gatech.edu
 
 

• Squeak projects

Contact: Mark Guzdial  guzdial@cc.gatech.edu
See http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial/projects.html