Summer Semester 2003
MWF 0800 - 0900 - Room 101 College of Computing (Section A, Bob
Waters)
Bob Waters (8AM Section)
·Office: 120 College of Computing
·Email: watersr@cc.gatech.edu
·Office
Hours: Open door policy and by appointment
TEACHING ASSISTANT:
Ashok Kumar Ponnuswami
Office Hours: Tuesday 1330-1430 CCB 154.
General Catalog Course Description:
Prerequisite(s): CS 2340
Intensive
team-based project experience in the specification, design, and implementation
of software and/or hardware for subsequent use in research, industry, and
teaching.
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
Course Organization:
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Course Overview &
Introduction
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Status Report
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Finalize Team Assignments |
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Status Report
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Holiday! |
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Status Report #3
·Project Plan
·Requirements Document |
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Status Report
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Midterm
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T5 (*), T4, T8 |
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Midterm
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Status Report #5
·Design Document
·Peer Evaluations |
DUE BY 5 PM T2, T3,T6, T9 |
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Midterm
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T1 (*), T7, T10 |
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·Status
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Status Report
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Holiday!! |
Status Report
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7/16 |
Final Presentation | T2 Drive Cents T5 TA Application System | ||
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Final Presentation
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Status Report
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T4 Workout Support |
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Final Presentation
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Final
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T1 Real World (*) T10 Wireless Restaraunt | |
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Final
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Status Report #11 |
T9 (*) 3D Atlanta |
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Finals Week |
·Customer Delivery
·Peer Evaluations
·Delivery Documentation due @ 4 PM
7/28
·Status Report #12 |
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Team numbers are available below. General class
information will be sent to via e-mail to the aliases for all teams, which will
be set up to address your GT accounts. Be sure your GT account forwards
your mail to wherever you actually want to read it.
Given that your team number is N, you have the following resources available: (THESE WILL BE SET UP SOON. DO NOT BUG CNS ABOUT IT!)
project/web space in /net/www/classes/AY2003/cs3911_summer/Projects/TeamN
unix file group cs3911tN (group owner of the above directories)
mailing list cs3911tN
can make team pages here: class
swiki
| Team # | Members | Project | Faculty Advisor |
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Steven Smith, Dan Frazier, Luke Switkowski | Travelling Salesman Assistant | John Stasko |
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David Cantrell, Reed Gregory, Mike Imamura | Transportation Support | TDB |
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Bruce Goodwin, Danille Dees, Heidi Hysell, Byron Saltysiak | WebCam Instant Message | Amy Voida/Beth Mynatt |
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Jeff Tindall, Shawn Sousa, Marcus Magee, Adam Sigler | Workout Project | TBD |
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Chris Cho, Paul Favorov, Jay Yeo, Kirandeep Atwal | On-line TA Applications | Allison Tew |
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Thomas Hildebrant, John Pafford, Robert Gash, Jeremie Haile, Reza Naghibi | WREK Radio | Dan Colestock |
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Zack Dill, Andrew Foster, Patrick Watson, Saurabh Verma | 3D Body Scan DB | Chris Shaw |
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Claudiu Fofiu, Paul Savastinuk, , Abdul Abounaij, Michael Wentzel, | Plasma Screen Display | Maureen Biggers, Irfan Essa |
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Shannon Foster, Ray Takemura, Eric Soto, David Simmons | 4D Atlanta Project | Frank Daellert |
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Jennifer Roper, Mohammed Hishan, Najib Zarrari | Wireless Restaurant System | Gregory Abowd |
Desktop PDA Interfaces (Continuing the Dynex M/F Project)
Contact: Jeff Pierce (jpierce@cc.gatech.edu)
Last semester students developed a programming framework for PDA support. This would be a continuation of that project.
Users of personal digital assistants (PDAs) like
Pilots or PocketPCs will often dock their PDA when working on their desktop
machine and
then ignore it. We could instead take
advantage of the PDA as an additional input/output device to monitor or control
some aspect of the
desktop computer. The goal of this
project is to prototype and study several applications whose interfaces relies
on adding a PDA to a
desktop PC. For example:
Use the PDA to monitor your instant messaging contact list: who's online, who's busy, etc.
Use the PDA to keep track of the progress of different tasks (ftping files, downloading web pages, print a paper)..
Use the PDA to switch between different projects (sending email, writing a paper, working on classwork).
Use the PDA to monitor your hard disk usage, CPU activity, and network activity.
Home Positioning System
Contact: Gregory Abowd (abowd@cc.gatech.edu)
We have built an indoor location system for the Aware Home based on RFID technology and floor mats. I would like a project team to take this prototype and design and produce a marketable positioning service that could be deployed in any home. This project would have significant RF design requirements (we built our own RF ID antennas based on some commercial technology) but it could be greatly improved. It would also involve building a reliable software infrastructure that could learn the patterns of RFID reads and convert that to estimates of room-level location. It could also involve some industrial design. In fact, I would love for this project to overlap with Industrial Design, ECE and CoC. Another very interesting possibility with this project is to reduce/remove the need for extensive wiring through use of wireless communication technology and to minimize the power requirements. I can discuss these options with the students, but it would take particularly strong students with a lot of creativity and motivation to pull that off. I have one person who can help as technical consultant at the beginning of the project (Thomas O'Connell).
.Living Memory Box
Contact: Gregory Abowd (abowd@cc.gatech.edu)
Molly Stevens is working with me on a collaboration with Hewlett Packard on the general theme of capturing memories of family life and linking digital and physical artifacts. We would like some students to help build a platform for something called the Living Memory Box to allow for easy association of digital records to physical artifacts and the attachment of metadata to those records. We have several pieces of this already prototyped and the students would work with Molly and HP folks on this project, possibly using some of HP Lab's new UbiMedia software infrastructure.
Augmenting PDAs with Displays in the Environment
Contact: Jeff Pierce (jpierce@cc.gatech.edu)
A major drawback to personal digital assistants (PDAs) is their small screen size. While a PDA's computational power, memory, and battery life will all improve with time, the size of its screen is limited by what people are willing to carry with them. If we wish to avoid having the small screen size dictate the types of tasks we can use a PDA for, we need to find a way to improve the available screen real estate. One way to add more screen real estate is to recognize that there are many places in the world around us where there are displays in the environment. For example, offices often contain desktop displays and classrooms often contain projectors. If we could temporarily annex a display in the environment when using our PDA, we could use our PDA for a wider range of tasks (or complete existing tasks more efficiently). In addition to creating an infrastructure for annexing displays, we need to determine how to effectively use that additional screen real estate, for example by dividing application functionality across the different displays. The goal of this project is to prototype and study several applications that divide input and output to the application across (at least) a PDA screen and a desktop display.
Graphical Model Editor
Contact: Frank Dellaert (frank@cc.gatech.edu)
Graphical models (http://www.ai.mit.edu/~murphyk/Bayes/bayes.html)
combine graph theory and probability theory to build models of probabilistic
events. Examples are Bayes nets, factor graphs and Markov Random fields. They
can be about static reasoning, e.g. given a set of symptoms, what is the most
likely disease a patient has ? Or they can involve time: e.g.. track this target
over time given noisy measurements.
My students and I are in the process of
building the mathematical back-end to perform inference in graphical models.
This is done in a functional language called ML (http://caml.inria.fr/tutorials-eng.html).
Specifically, we use a very fast compiler called Caml (caml.inria.fr).
The
project would involve building a graphical front-end that will allow us to
compose graphical models using a GUI. This will mainly involve interacting and
displaying graphs on the screen, as well as providing visula feedback from
various simulations run with the models.
All this will need to be done in
ML, using GTK as the graphical user interface toolkit. We have experience
building such UIs from previous senior design projects, and one of these
students is sticking around over the summer and can provide you with valuable
help/pointers. A swiki on the local Redhat installation of Caml and lablgtk is
available at http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/104.
CoC Lobby Plasma Screen Demo Application (TAKEN)
Contact: Maureen Biggers (maureen@cc.gatech.edu)
The College of Computing is installing a large plasma screen display for visitors to view when in the CoC building. What is needed are applications to run on this screen which depict the many facets of CoC research. Got some cool ideas?
On-Line TA Application System (TAKEN)
Contact: Allison Elliot Tew (allison@cc.gatech.edu)
* Process Undergraduate & Graduate Teaching
Assistant (TA) applications
* Support TA application history, so
returning TAs only need to update, instead of re-enter all of their
information
* Administrator interface should automate assignment of TAs
to classes
* Support for email & reporting of hiring to individuals
and campus financial offices
* Must work with CNS to ensure design
consistent with deployment on CoC external website
Webcam Instant Messaging (TAKEN)
Contact: Amy Voida (amyvoida@cc.gatech.edu) [Advisor: Elizabeth Mynatt: mynatt@cc.gatech.edu]
A research prototype exists that allows users to send and receive
webcam
photos inline in the instant messaging conversation. The research
prototype
is a nice proof-of-concept application but is not thoughtfully
designed,
somewhat unstable, and not suitably extensible. The project team
will
recreate the functionality of the research prototype in a
robustly
object-oriented and extensible manner for wide-scale deployment.
Submarine Simulation
Contact: Bill Leahy (leahy@cc.gatech.edu) and Kurt Eiselt (eiselt@cc.gatech.edu)
What we need is a good multiplayer submarine simulation.
Should
be realistic but playable.
Web interface.
Can be modern day or
WWII.
Should include destroyers and subs (no air assets to make it more
playable.)
Needs to be scalable i.e. lots of players.
TeamView: Visualizing the Behavior of Social Insects (Continuation of previous semester project) (TAKEN)
Contact: Tucker Balch <tucker@cc.gatech.edu>
We are investigating how the behavior of individuals in social
groups can be automatically recognized and learned
by observing their
movement patterns. Initially we are exploring this problem by looking at
social insects
(ants and bees). We have developed computer vision
software that can track the insects, and record their
positions over time to
log files.
What we need, and this would be the goal of this project, is a way
for a researcher to replay, visualize and annotate
the log files. We
envision something like a media player that would animate the movements of the
animals.
It would have play, pause and rewind buttons, and additional bells
and whistles for visualization (e.g.
a histogram of where the animals are
most often located) and notation (e.g. labeling an individual's behavior).
For more information about this research, take a look at http://borg.cc.gatech.edu/biotracking
This semester would focus on editing and annotating tracks.
Smart Card Operating System
Contact: Andre Dos Santos (andre@cc.gatech.edu)
The goal of this project is to design a smart card operating
system. The
team of students will learn how to design and develop code for
embedded
devices with space and processing power constraints. In addition,
the
team will learn what are the requirements, including security, for
operating systems that control tamper resistant devices. The operating
system can be developed either in C or assembly compatible with the Intel
8051 instruction set. Please drop an e-mail to andre@cc with any questions
on this project.
MacMOOSE
Contact: Amy Bruckman (amy@cc.gatech.edu)
If anyone is interested in doing a MacOS X version of
MacMOOSE/WinMOOSE,
that might make a fun project. (WinMOOSE was a 3911
project originally.)
The client is a programming environment for MOOSE
Crossing, an educational
MUD.
WinMOOSE was made by a team of students
who did a basic version their
first term, and then finished it as an
independent study the following term.
I'd especially like to work with
students who will still be here in
the fall and might be interested in taking
the software to full public release.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/moose-crossing/
Workout Support Tool (TAKEN)
Contact: Pete Wellborn (pete@wellbornlaw.com)
The top strength and conditioning coach in the world -- Mark
Verstegen,
a former GT coach, is in need of help to develop a human
peformance system
that will incorporate database functions, work-out design
and recording,
web-based acces, etc. The system will, among other
things, allow
remotely-located athletes or coaches to access the system and
develop a
work-out, based upon advice and prompts. (Think "Work-Out
Wizard.") You
may get to hob-nob with Mia Hamm, Nomar Garciaparra, Mary
Pierce, Eddie
George, and other elite athletes when you visit Mark's world
class facility
in Tempe. See athletesperformance.com. Plus, Mark
is a GREAT guy . . . .
Ultimate Point of Sale
Contact: Pete Wellborn (pete@wellbornlaw.com)
Local tanning bed industry leader needs help designing the
end-all,
be-all database/POS system.
Transportation (Trucking Industry) Support (TAKEN)
Client: David Cantrell (dlc@burdell.org)
Here is my problem. When we started our company, we created
a DOS
based program called Drive-Cents. This program catered to a
section of
the trucking industry called Owner-Operators. The
output was industry
specific and helped the small owner with statistics and
savings methods to be a
better and more knowledgeable business
person. We updated our systems to
Windows 2000 on the work stations and Linux on our server.
When we did
this our DOS program quit working. We started using
QuickBooks and downloaded
the information to Excel so we could create
somewhat of a standard report.
What I am asking is to have the program
rewritten to Java or something like it so that it can be used in
our network
as before.
Teaching Squeak Environment
Contact: Bob Waters (watersr@cc.gatech.edu)
The current version of Squeak allows only certain fonts to be enlarged. When teaching, many of the items in squeak are too small for students to read when projected. This project would involve modifying squeak behavior so all text is printed in larger fonts for display on the overhead projection system.
Software Architecture Visualization
Contact: Bob Waters (watersr@cc.gatech.edu)
Eclipse is a general Java framework for applications. It can be extended via plug-ins. This project is to develop a plug-in using Eclipse and GEF (Graph Editing Framework) to input description files in xADL and display them in eclipse.
WARNING: The team that tried this project last semester could not get past learning curve on Eclipse programming. Take this only if you enjoy a challenge or already know how to program plug-ins in Eclipse.
Wireless Restaurant Solution System (TAKEN)
Contact: Shawkat Kabbara (shawkat@kabbara.com)
Build a prototype for a wireless restaurant solution system. Devices used include: PDA's. Cell Phones, GPS Systems
The UI should allow users to view restaurants in different cities. Users should be able to purchase gift certificates from their favorite restaraunt and pay via credit card. You should be able to view restaurant information and menus. You should be able to place an order and pay on-line, for pickup, delivery or eat-in. If users want to eat in, they should be able to place reservations.
Large DataSet Handling
Contact: Bob Simpson (robert.simpson@gtri.gatech.edu) or Betty Whittaker (elizabeth.whittaker@gtri.gatech.edu)
Work with GTRI and U.S. Government customer to analyze large quantities of click stream data.
Plexicon
Contact: Spencer Rugaber (spencer@cc.gatech.edu)
Plexicon is an on-line dictionary of
programming concepts and that I had a team two terms
ago. The software is in pretty good shape, but the dictionary needs to
be populated. Even though little if any software needs to be developed,
this is still a design project. Deciding exactly how to organize concepts
is the essense of knowledge engineering.
Ectropic
Contact: Spencer Rugaber (spencer@cc.gatech.edu)
This is a design tool in use in CS2340. The team would make major enhancements to the existing version of Ectropic to include UML modeling support. This requires programming skills in Squeak/Smalltalk.
WREK Remote Broadcast System (TAKEN)
Contact: Thomas Hildebrant (thomash@cc)
WREK, Georgia Tech's student radio station, would
like to have a network
audio tool developed for remote broadcasting. The requirements for live
broadcasting are significantly different from other network audio
applications. TCP-based solutions are not feasible due to the delay
involved; for example, sports fans listen to our play-by-play broadcasts
at the venue and will not tolerate hearing the game called 15 seconds
late. Existing UDP applications are geared towards Internet telephony and
do not provide high-quality audio at low bitrates.
The tool we are looking for would encode audio by MP3 and send it to a
receiving computer over RTP, an unreliable, UDP-based protocol. There are
a few things we can experiment with to allow for packet-loss recovery,
like redundant audio streams. We will need a UI incorporating VU and peak
program meters and a gain control.
Potential developers should be familiar with digital audio fundamentals,
and networking experience is preferred.
Data Access System (TAKEN)
Contact: Rich Fleming (rich@analog.org)
Tech has access to a very large and very
expensive database with no easy
way to access the data. We want a group to design a front-end to
interface with this database of 3D body scans. The front-end will sit
on top of an already written 3D visualization program and make calls to
a remote database. This program will probably be shipped to many
companies in industry (Gap, Levi, Boeing, and Leer, among others) so a
premium will be put on reliability and usability. Simply, the design
goals are as follows:
Design an easy to use and easy to understand user interface
Write the database calls that will be used to extract the pertinent
data from the database
Based on the information retrieved, interface with a 3D
visualization program to put the data into a relevant form
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