EEN418, Senior Project Design, Autumn 2005

MCA220, Fridays, 1:25 to 2:15

• Schedule of events (all dates are Fridays):
  1. 26th August: Did not happen, campus was closed.
  2. 2nd September: Explanation of what sernior projects are all about, from R. Lask and M. Scordilis.
  3. 9th September: Presentation of project ideas associated with Motorola (big 3MB zip file).
  4. 16th September: Presentation of A.I.-related project ideas from me.
  5. 23rd September: Presentations of project ideas from S. Negahdaripour, X. Cai, and M. Kubat.
  6. 30th September: General discussion.
  7. 7th October: 5 minute presentation of initial ideas from each student or group.
  8. 14th October: No class today, it is a holiday.
  9. 21st October: Remaining 5 minute presentations of initial ideas from each student or group.
  10. 28th October cancelled for hurricane holiday: Guest speaker on professional ethics, A. Olazabal.
  11. 4th November: Replacement ethics day, joint session.
  12. 11th November in MCA202: Guest speaker on business and financial practices, N. Einspruch.
  13. 18th November: General Discussion.
  14. 2nd December: Final presentations of proposals.
  15. 9th December: Final presentations of proposals.
• Final presentation times are:

  	Friday 2nd December	Friday 9th December
  1:25 to 1:40	Dara, Ralph, Alex	Jason, Alex, Ilya
  1:40 to 1:55	Eddie, Sam	Robert, Aaron
  1:55 to 2:05	Salman	Eric
  2:05 to 2:15	Monica	Ashley

  
  
  
  
• Discussion of A.I.-related topics: A.I. (word .doc file or normal html), Building a robot (word .doc file or normal html).
• Turing's paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence descibing the Turing Test and other things.
• Software that might be useful:
  • Graphics Library for C/C++ under Windows: Downloads, examples, and documentation
  • Fourier Transform fft.cpp, fft.exe ready to run.
• Third party software for parallel port access
• Mock mid-term presentation: (powerpoint .ppt file).