Foundations: No Go. Retry in September. We received the exams back, and I really need to study algorithms in depth, as well as some dynamic programming techniques. Whoops.
Human Centered Computing : Conditional Pass. I have to take Artificial Intelligence this Fall, which is cool. My AI course was not a practical course, instead being largely a theoretical approach. UIC emphasizes practice so much that I'm actually mildly excited. I did rock the HCI portion of the HCC exam, and that delighted me.
Systems: Pass. I find it peculiar that the only test I passed absolutely on the first try is the only one I didn't explicitly study for, but I'll take what I can get. Primarily my success here was due to taking Networking the prior semester.
While I attempted to apply for internships, I was largely unsuccessful. For some reason, places that are looking for research interns actually desire research experience. Fancy that. Luckily for me, I've been talking at length with Dr.Leilah Lyons about a project that only recently was given a small budget so that my summer will be partially funded, which is a delightful development that makes my summer much less stressful. The project?
The project involves two subjects that I'm aware of and one that I've studied with just a bit of depth. Essentially, it's an augmented reality project that will take AR input for a system, and then run a simulation for that system, based on the input. I actually question the extent to which this is Augmented Reality to some extent, since it's being used as input only, and not active input. Once the images are captured, they are not then acknowledged again unless another capture is requested.
The semester is coming to a close and Kenchi Games is taking up quite a bit of my time. Reach has been an interesting project with many, many problems that we're working on, a day at a time. Hopefully, we'll be making another video capture this week to post on youTube. The original intent had been to do that far more often than we have, but the amount of progress between weeks has been less than desired.
Additionally, for User Interface Design, we're now working on small projects in Android. This slow build up will hopefully lead to a good understanding of the API so that I can build small applications over the summer and increase my portfolio of work. (Speaking of portfolio, another high priority item on the list is definitely completing a portfolio website by the end of summer, since the school year seems to not include much real time.)
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