3/11/2010
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Engineering Open House 2010 kicks off tomorrow. Here's a preview of what Illinois computer science students will be exhibiting at Siebel Center.
Hambot: Machine vs. Nature presented by CS, Psychology, EE
Siebel Center - 1304
Come check out the Hamster Robot, which runs around in a hamster ball and builds a cognitive map of its maze and learns to navigate through the maze (with a neural network) easily after the mental map is built. All training is done internally through self-teaching methods. Hambot will be racing against real mice. It is the true test of Machines vs. Nature.
Nikhilborg presented by !Bang
Siebel Center - Atrium
A demonstration of a simple and intuitive socket and server component developed for .Net applications using pipes and object serialization.
SIGArt Wikipedia Knowledge Integrator presented by ACM
Siebel Center - Atrium
The ACM Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence presents a project that extracts facts from Wikipedia and integrates them into a database for AI experimentation and search based applications.
Photo Khipu presented by Computer Science
Siebel Center - Atrium
Photo khipu is a visualization for digital photo collections. It is meant to be used on a large display in the home. Photo Khipu provides temporal context for photos within the collection through a fun and engaging experience.
SIGMusic presented by ACM
Siebel Center - Atrium
Check out SIGMusic's revolutionary digital instrument: Tacchi is a full sized table converted into a multi-touch display.
Illiac III Supercomputer Redux presented by SIGArch
Siebel Center - Atrium
A remake of the class Illinois supercomputer, the Illiac III, on an FPGA.
Frantic Elevator 2 presented by ACM Gamebuilders
Siebel Center - Atrium Video Wall
Elevator themed fun for the whole family! Control elevators in a building and get everyone where they want to go.
Galactic Strategy Game presented by ACM Gamebuilders
Siebel Center - Atrium Video Wall
A Real Time Strategy game where players vie for control of planets.
Ink presented by ACM Gamebuilders
Siebel Center - Atrium Video Wall
A 4-playwer Co-op 2D scrolling game.
Gamebuilders Minigames presented by ACM Gamebuilders
Siebel Center - Atrium Video Wall
A 2D mini-game collection that's super fun!
Stellar Jockeys presented by ACM Gamebuilders
Siebel Center - Atrium Video Wall
Top-down space combat game.
Puzzle Game presented by ACM Gamebuilders
Siebel Center - Atrium Video Wall
A 2-player competitive puzzle game written in XNA.
Tactical RPG presented by ACM Gamebuilders
Siebel Center - Atrium Video Wall
A tactical RPG/turn based strategy game similar to Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem.
Curvature presented by UIUC ACM SIGGRAPH
Siebel Center - Atrium
A 3D computer animated short film about a complex world filled with many inhabitants. One of which is a triangle. Follow along in his journey of finding a purpose in a world that he just doesn't 'fit' in.
Megabyte presented by ACM Gamebuilders
Siebel Center - Atrium Video Wall
A game that resembles the classic platformer: Mega Man, but with randomly generated stages.
Acoustics Music Player presented by Association for Computing Machinery
Siebel Center - Atrium
People like music. Unfortunately, people like different types of music. The Acoustics Music Player brings a virtual jukebox to your room, office, or anywhere with speakers. Acoustics allows many people to vote on what music to play using their web browser and takes turns playing their music. Acoustics provides statistics on songs that are popular, recently played, recently added, as well as integration with various web services such as last.fm and Wikipedia.
mEvent presented by ACM Webmonkeys
Siebel Center - Atrium
Developed by Webmonkeys, an ACM SIG, during the 09-10 school year, mEvent is a website that aggregates events on and near campus to help students find stuff to do in their spare time. It works by automatically reading and parsing websites and RSS feeds from local venues and organizations, then aggregrating this data into a simple, easy-to-use website complete with search functionality.
SIGBot Quadrocopter presented by ACM
Siebel Center - Atrium
SIGBot has taken to the skies with this flying robot. Come check out our quadrocopter with it's for rotating blades and automatic stabilization.
SIGBot 2D Inverted Pendulum presented by ACM
Siebel Center - Atrium
It's like a pendulum, but upside down. In a crazy balancing act, SIGBot has built an inverted pendulum that can move in any direction (on the ground of course).
Cross Compiling a Linux System presented by Linux Users Group
Siebel Center - Atrium
This year the Linux Users Group is hosting a series of workshops on how to build Linux from the ground up for non-Intel architectures. The workshop goes through building a compiler to build the Linux kernel and support utilities, and ultimately packaging it up into a running system.
IGVRT Autonomous Robot presented by Intelligent Ground Vehicles Robototics
Siebel Center - 1302
The IGVRT team utilizes vision programming, artificial intelligence, in-depth electronics, and advanced mechanical techniques to develop a robot that is entirely autonomous. This robot has to operate outdoors with varying weather conditions.
Illini Entrepreneurship Network presented by Illini Entrepreneurship Network
Siebel Center - Atrium
The Illini Entrepreneurship Network promotes student startups and ventures on campus through a technology incubator program, workshops, and events. It currently supports 13 startups in the Student Venture Accelerator ranging from web based to green ventures.
Tunneling Proxy over DNS Packets presented by Linux Users Group
Siebel Center - Atrium
This project aims to implement a fast, efficient proxy server that passes data through DNS requests and responses to showcase vulnerabilities in modern subscription network services.
ACM - SIG Embedded
Siebel Center - Atrium
Special Interest Group Embedded specializes in embedded hardware and software. This year's project includes developing linux for an embedded AVR32 micro controller with the further aim of turning it into a wireless mesh networking mp3 player.
Portable NES
Siebel Center - Atrium
An NES emulated on a microcontroller platform.
Nightmare presented by ACM Gamebuilders
Siebel Center - Atrium Video Wall
An isometric-platformer game
Chaos Vs Order presented by Computer Science
Siebel Center - Atrium
This is a game that you can play on your Android powered phone with your friends or with complete strangers. Fight to bring order, or create chaos. Control the fate of the world with your actions all in the palm of your hand.
Illinois Electric Vehicle Club presented by Illinois Electric Vehicle RSO
Siebel Center - Atrium
Presentation of various electric vehicles
MyCampus presented by MacWarriors
Siebel Center - Atrium
MyCampus is an iPhone application designed to help UIUC students by providing them instant access to campus maps, local restaurant information, bus routes and more.
Brenda Pacey presented by Project Lead The Way/UOPS
Siebel Center - 1103
See examples of Middle and High School Project Lead The Way student problem-based STEM and engineering projects. More than 95 Illinois schools participate in this nationwide program.