Columbia, SC Linux Users Group - Seminar

Columbia, SC Linux Users Group will have a meeting Thursday, October 9th, 2008. Dan Lark will talk about encrypted file systems in Linux. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Jiang or you can be there directly .

• Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm, Thursday, October 9th, 2008.
• Location: 301 Main St. (the Swearingen Engineering Center on the USC Campus)
• Topic: Encrypted File Systems in Linux
• Speaker: Mr. Dan Lark
• Direction: The building is at the intersection of Main and Catawba. (Three blocks south of Blossom St.) Come in the entrance facing Main closest to Catawba & Main, and look for the Faculty Lounge. (2nd door on the right, next to the vending room.) Handicap entrance faces Catawba and enters to basement level. Take elevator to 1st floor and take two rights to get to the meeting room.

Slides & Pictures for Open Source in Education

Thank Mr. David Nalley for his wonderful presentation.
Please click here for presentation slides.
And pictures:

We are expecting to bring some Open Source ideas into our classroom and undergraduate research projects.

Open Source in Education

We invited Mr. David Nalley for a talk about Open Source at 9/19/2008, Friday, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, STARKS-I.
He has been a contributor to Open Source Software Projects since 2003, a frequent speaker at computer conferences and the occasional educational institution, and a frequent author for various computer magazines.
The title is:
Open Source in Education -- Why students and teachers should care.

And we plan to use open source in our robotics research in the future.

First Meeting of 2008 Fall

Dear STACIE members,
We will have a combined meeting with Group Mobile Computing, 9/12/2008, 10:00am. Let's meet at ALU313.
Look forward to seeing you all.

Potential Projects

• Robotics
• Robots in Education:
  Did you ever think about how to use robots to promote education at different age level or for different subjects?
  For example,
  You can program robot to teach kindergarten kids English or Math;
  You can design robot for teaching music;
  You can do a survey through all those area and write a review.
  etc.
  
• Robots in Our Daily Life:
  Did you ever consider how to use robots to make your life better?
  A good example is iRobot Vacuum Cleaning Robot.
  You can use robot to solve little problems in your daily life and each small problem can be a good research topic.
  
• Learn and Program iRobot:
  Focusing on individual algorithms in controlling iRobot, you can analyze an algorithm and try to improve it.
  

• Emotional Agents
• Did you ever think about bringing some emotions to robot? or making robot more like a human being?
• Did you ever think about how to build an emotionally intelligent agent or high EQ agent?
• Program emotional agents, and evaluate their performance in the competition of a game.
• Any good strategies in negotiation? Transform them to programs.

• Web Service and Distributed AI
• Learn and design your own XML.
• Learn SOAP and write your code with XML and SOAP.
• Learn WSDL and design your own web service.
• Study security in web service.
  

• Linux and Open Source Software
• Build up experience with Linux system, and learn how to set up a web server.
• Learn how to run a Linux server to support multiple users to work on same research project.