Instructor:
Sharad Seth,
Avery Hall, Room 359
Phone: 472-5003
Email: seth at cse dot unl dot edu
Office Hours: by appointment or whenever the door is open and I am free
Syllabus:
Have
a look at the Syllabus
for details on grading, course policies, etc.
Team Projects:
Each
team is to continue to maintain their Project
Wiki throughout the semester;
you can archive dated material from 488.
Schedule:
We will meet as a class only four times this semester.
- January 10, 2011: First class (today)
- First progress report:
February 22 and 24, in AvH 347 (jointly with CSCE 487). Link to the handin page for
submitting reports and peer & self evaluations (Use either the .doc or the .pdf form).
- Second progress report:
March 29 and 31, in AvH 347 (jointly with CSCE 487). Link to the handin
page for
submitting reports and peer & self evaluations (Use either the .doc or the .pdf form).
- Final progress report:
Monday May 2, 2011 from 7:30-9:30am, AvH 347 (jointly with CSCE 487).
Link to the handin
page for
submitting reports and peer & self evaluations (Use either the .doc or the .pdf form).
Teams will hold weekly meetings.
Web Links:
Important Resources
(Local):
Important
Resources
(External)
- Mobile phone related links
- Star TRAN, Get
on Board page: The existing automated vehicle location (AVL)
tracking system. It went live this July, we are going to produce
amazing versions of apps that can do this and much more. How much
more? That's what you'll be dreaming up, doing, and sharing with
Lincoln.
- App Inventor
for Android (from Google Labs)
- Android
SDK Download and Android Developers page
- iPhone
Developer University Program
- Stanford
'Frankencamera' platform (available for Nokia N900): fully
programmable open-source digital photography software
- Travel
Assistance Device: GPS enabled cell phone app to help disabled persons
making trips on fixed route systems to plan and navigate
- BusTrack
Windows Phone 7 App: Bus tracking application (there is a short
demo video)
- Download Mobile
phone app to report issues around your city you would like to see
resolved: Available on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry right
now.
- A
similar app, called Citizen
Sourcing, provided by the city of Boston. Other similar apps are
also available for LA,
Do-it-Yourself
Democracy - California, Portland
(with Blog
article). Read/Listen to an NPR story about these here.
- IEEE
Spectrum, June 2010 article: Cross-Platform Smartphone Apps Still
Difficult
- DARPA Grand Challenges and Followup
- Autonomous
Vehicle Roadmap 2010-2020: This is a video of a presentation at
RoboBusiness 2008. It provides a a very nice summary of the
DARPA Grand Challenge series of competitions, highlighting several
emerging sensor and navigationsal technologies as a consequence
of the competitions. The first part of the presentation is a bit hokey
and the roadmap in the last part for civilian autonomous vehicle is
highly speculative. However, I found this 40-minute video worth
watching.
On Technical
Communication:
- Resources for technical writing,
Dr. Steve Goddard
- Improve your written and oral presentation
styles, Dr. Stephen Scott
- How to write a research paper, Dr.
Jean-Yves Le Boudec
- Common bugs in writing, Dr. Henning
Schulzrinne
- Style in business writing, Dave
Dusseau
- A Handbook for Scholars,
Mary-Claire van Leunen
- Little, Brown Essential Handbook for
Writers, Jane E. Aaron
- Purdue Writing Lab
- Computers and Society, COS 490, CS
Department, University of Maine
href="http://www.library.umaine.edu/science/compsci.htm">Fogler
Guide
to Computer Science - A simple
(incomplete) check-list for writing papers, S. Sapatnekar, University
of Minnesota
- Professional Societies' Student Membership: IEEE,
IEEE
Computer Society, ACM,
HKN
- Presenting your project: The what, the how, and the why of giving
an
effective presentation, Communications of ACM, August 2010, pp. 33-34
(avaialble freely on campus from the ACM
Digital Library)
On Ethics:
Design
Contests: