Partnering with Clifford Lim for our thesis dissertation whata-whata. The routing solution and possible load balancing for streaming video/audio is particularly interesting since the infrastructure is already there for us to tinker. The others focus more on visualization techniques, graphics and GUI. Except for the XML-izing of Doc Luis’ lecture viewer which involves more of analyzing global standards for data representation in XML. Hmm… we’re off to thesisthesisland. Think happy thoughts!
1. Reality Mining through Mobile Phones
MIT has already provided the premise for reality mining through wearable technologies by applying social network analysis techniques on information gathered from unobtrusive voice sensors. This gives rise to the following possibilities:
c) Perhaps a whole new interface can also be designed whereby people can give their reactions to the people they’re currently meeting or the situations they currently find themselves in through mobile phones (send “happy signals” if at home, “sad signals” if in a meeting with the boss).
Possible adviser: Dr. Luis Sarmenta
2. Developing a Standard Language for a Cue-Based Synthesis of Multimedia Elements
Inspired by the MIT Lecture Viewer of Dr. Sarmenta, and as per his suggestion, this thesis basically aims to construct a standard language to link different types of media (both streaming and static) through “cues” or “marker points”. Eventually, feeds may be constructed for the consumption of any interface/front-end programmed to interpret the constructed language (as in blogging, news syndication, etc). XML can be used.
3. Location-Based Data Routing and Load Balancing of Streaming Media through Custom DNS Daemons
As part of Peter Martin Gomez’s wider MIS project, this thesis aims to provide an optimized routing solution for delivering streaming data (video and audio) to clients. This mainly involves the construction of a server application which will direct content mirrored across servers in nationwide locations to a client software/interface using the shortest path.
4. Building GUI/Web Interfaces for the Configuration, Management and Monitoring of Network Server Tools in Linux
Common operations like the management of route tables, DNS settings, and FTP server settings can be administered through the use of a GUI developed in the Linux X-Windows System. This makes it easy for novice Linux users or newbie systems administrators to do common tasks. These tasks can easily be administered using wizards and forms. Management and monitoring is achieved using visual representations of data through tables and graphs.
5. Building a Collaborative, Web-based, Visual Reference Tool for General Use
Premised on the ingenuity of Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus (http://www.visualthesaurus.com), this thesis aims to develop an application/system which supports a similar visual interface. However, the project must allow different users to construct their own knowledge base in a collaborative environment. Users can input information related to languages and linguistics, history and social science, etc. Of course, they ought to be able to search through what everyone has collectively inputted in an interactive manner. Perhaps a ratings system can also be worked in to weed out erroneous submissions. Finally, perhaps this can be taken a step further and simulated on mobile systems.