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Welcome to the CS194 Web site for Spring of 2009!

Course announcements will be posted on this web page and announced in class. You are responsible for all material that appears here and should check this page for updates frequently.

Important Announcements

TEAM MEETING SCHEDULE (time, project name, team's TA)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

Friday

First class:

Outstanding Project Opportunities

E310: Project-Based Engineering Design, Innovation & Development

here

Winter Quarter Hardware Bazaar and SUDS

Project-Based Software Design, Innovation & Development

here.

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Microsoft

to use MSFT's High Performance Computing Server technology to incorporate sinusodial satellite data into current ground instrument readings to help scientists produce better climate models. The team is focusing on three concepts; Stitching together satellite images to give data on areas that weren't easily analyzed before; Providing a web services API for scientists to query as part of their modeling; Hosting huge data sets in the cloud to enable scientists to extend their models beyond the capabilities of their PC.

Yahoo!
The project focuses on the "Semantic Search" initiative at Yahoo! that is seeking to create more valuable information-finding techniques. The student team has access to real-world semantic search data and has options to take the project in directions oriented toward HCI or more toward algorithms. The team is currently focusing on leveraging semantic data to provide "direct information" alongside standard query results to users.

John Gardner Center
The project goal is to identify areas in the after school ecosystem in Redwood City that can be improved through use of technology and then to build components of what is identified. Today, there is a great deal of misinformation and inefficiency in the way after-school programs come into existence and are administered. There is a tremendous opportunity to improve this through technology. Our students are designing a web-based application that helps different "stakeholders" in the after school program world work more effectively. The architecture the team has chosen is Ruby on Rails.

For more information on CS210, contact Jay Borenstein [borenstein at cs dot stanford.edu].

Here is an exciting project at the Med School:

Time is Brain. You’ve loved The Beatles, playing tennis and cooking for the past thirty years. In an instant, you lose everything that defines you as an individual, and you become completely dependent on your others: your spouse, your children, your professional caregivers. Imagine being trapped inside of your body, unable to communicate, seeing only half the world or being unable to walk or take care of basic daily necessities. Your loved ones now bathe, feed and provide for you…for the rest of your life. Imagine knowing that you could have prevented this by recognizing the symptoms of stroke early and seeking timely medical care.

Stroke is the second leading killer worldwide, afflicting nearly 15 million individuals annually. Although effective medical treatments exist, victims have only 3 hours to receive that treatment or face permanent disability; the vast majority don't make it in time. Rapid recognition of stroke warning signs is key to seeking treatment and reversing the effects of stroke. A small group of physicians and scientists have been working in conjunction with the Stanford Biodesign Program and Stanford Institute for Entrepreneurship to develop a novel concept in early stroke detection that will be going to clinical trials later this spring. The goal of the project would be to use the iPhone SDK to develop an autonomous stroke detection device. This app will be put into the hands of real patients, be used in clinical trials, and hopefully improve patient outcomes on a large scale. Contact Robert Plummer [plummer at cs dot stanford.edu].

Corporate sponsored project: Cooliris
The Challenge: Come up with an innovative approach to content discovery on the web using the Cooliris visual interface

Areas of interest should include: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, user interface design, web search and categorization

Project Description: At Cooliris, our motto is Discover More, and we're always looking for new ways to deliver on that mission. With our latest release, Cooliris has made our innovative interface even more flexible, by enabling the display of more information while users are engaging with images and videos. However, we realize that displaying more metadata isn't the final goal. We want to make Cooliris the ultimate experience for users to discover more of the content that they love.

For this project, students will work with Cooliris to experiment within the space of content discovery. Students will be held responsible with creating a generic program that can point at a variety of different websites and dynamically generate a Cooliris display and navigation UI that facilitates content discovery. Although the group will receive guidance from members of the Cooliris team, the final design will ultimately be the responsibility of students, and should be incredibly innovative (and maybe a bit wacky). At the end of the quarter, the students should be able to use their own project to get lost within the Cooliris interface for hours, browsing pictures, videos and more from all over the web.

If this project sounds interesting to you, go to http://www.cooliris.com, download and start brainstorming all the possibilities. We'd love to talk to you.

Corporate sponsored project: WaveMarket

Build your own location-aware application! …and launch your own business! Get insider access to the emerging community of location-based app development to help you launch your own application. WaveMarket’s recently-launched Veriplace Location Aggregation platform allows you to develop location-enabled Facebook widgets, websites, mobile websites, downloadable applications, and even SMS applications.

Veriplace provides a comprehensive, secure API for location-enabling a web or mobile application with location data from mobile devices. Veriplace significantly reduces the expense and lead-time of launching your location apps and provides a comprehensive, horizontal privacy solution based on emerging Internet technologies such as OpenID and the OAuth protocol. WaveMarket is actively providing end-user location access to developers in partnership with top-tier operators in the U.S., including our recently-announced partnership with Sprint-Nextel. This is the first deal of its kind in the U.S.

Veriplace is built by WaveMarket, a young mobile technology company in the East Bay. Our team is super-smart, well-financed, and a world leader in mobile location based solutions (with nearly a dozen commercial deployments on carriers worldwide). We are backed by top-tier VCs like Draper Fisher Jurvertson, Blue Run Ventures, QUALCOMM Ventures, and Intel Capital. Our customers include some of the largest network operators worldwide, including AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, Vivo (the largest operator in Brazil), Alltel, and SK Telecom (the largest operator in South Korea, and the first network operator to launch LBS).

We have a growing community of developers building on the Veriplace Platform. And we want you, creative and clever Stanford programmers, to come onboard, too. We’ll bring our years of industry experience working with tier-1 network operators, our understanding of the opportunities and limitations of location technologies, and our experience working with supporting services, such as GIS and local search content. In return, we want you to show us what you can create when given access to user location! Check out http://developer.veriplace.com for more information.

For more information on any of the above, contact Robert Plummer [plummer at cs dot stanford.edu].