Hawaii Competition

Course Information

See Practical Course Advanced Networking (Summer 2011)

Project Detail

The project is to use Microsoft Hawaii services such as Windows 7, Azure cloud platform and relevant services to implement unique and innovative scenarios. It should address or aim to solve unique societal or scientific problems. You could choose project from the table below or you could come up with your own creative projects. For the latter case, please make sure there is no existing and on-going projects similar to your proposed one(s), take a look at the Hawaii website: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hawaii/applications/

Project teams

The students will conduct the practical course in small teams. A team usually consists of two or three students. Teams will be formed at the informational meeting at the beginning of this semester.

Everyone is welcomed to participate in this project, but only master students can get credits as practical course. [Click here for more details]

Judging

Winners will be selected by a panel of Göttingen staff scientists. The judges will grade entries using the following criteria (Please see #Schedule and adhere to it to be eligible):

• Uniqueness, innovative
• General utility and importance of output to society or scientific problems
• Scalability and elegance of design (including selection of appropriate algorithms and data structures)
• Clarity, efficiency and portability of implementation

The judges shall have the sole authority and discretion to select the award recipient(s).

Grand Prize

• $500 in cash for the best project
• Featuring on the Hawaii website
• Featuring at various academic conference events
• Featuring on Microsoft website and other public forums
• 6 ECTS (for master students, if applicable)

Schedule

• Friday, 15 April 2011, 16.15 - 17.15: Informational meeting:
  • Introduction to the course, selection of topics, teams and discussion of open questions
• 08.09.2011, 23.59 (CET) Submission of slides/animation and demo for final presentation
  • (Mandatory to get a presentation slot)
• 15.09.2011 Final presentations Slot - I
  • Time allocated for each presentation = 30 minutes
    • Presentation = 10 minutes
    • Demo = 10 Minutes
    • Q and A = 10 minutes
• 22.09.2011 Final presentations Slot - II
• 30.09.2011, 23.59 (CET) Submission of Final report & video/slides
  • (Mandatory to receive a final grade and/or be eligible for Hawaii competition)
  • The Final report must contain the following:
    • Introduction and Motivation for the project
    • Design. implementation and evaluation details
    • Evaluation results
    • A short manual on how to use the code
    • CD/link to the code

Topics

The following list of topics is constantly being expanded. If there is no topic that you like at the moment, please check back regularly for the most recent updates. You can also get in touch with us directly and we will try to find a topic that interests you. Feel free to discuss your own topics with us too.

Topic	Topic advisor	Initial readings	Description	Student
Mobile Shared Storage on Windows Phones	Lei Jiao	[1]	Imagining that you can store your photos and videos remotely on phones of your trusted friends when your own phone is short of storage, and imagining that you can make some files on your phone accessible to your friends by only marking these files as "shared", in this project, you are expected to develop such an application to enable Windows Phones of your own and your friends to form a network of shared storage by leveraging various necessary cloud services of Microsoft. Cloud services such as Relay and Rendezvous Services, released quite recently by Microsoft to support the efforts of the Hawaii project, enable one Windows Phone to access another via some replay point in the cloud. This makes possible P2P-like file sharing and storage among mobile phones.
Talking to Strangers around You Anonymously	Lei Jiao	[2] [3] [4]	Omegle is a website via which strangers worldwide can talk with each other anonymously. The idea of anonymous chat can also be implemented in a location-based fashion, i.e., people can be enabled to chat anonymously with others who are physically nearby. In this project, you are expected to develop such a location-based anonymous instant-messaging application for Windows Phones. You can leverage various cloud services from Microsoft to select co-located strangers to form one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many conversations. This application can also be extended to exchanging files between strangers and video chat if strangers are willing to see eath other.
A Cloud-Enabled Mobile Content-Based Image Retrieval Application	Jiachen Chen	[5] [6] [7] [8]	The team will develop a cloud-enabled Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) application for Windows Mobile platforms using the cloud as corpus rather than a local database. The application will have mobile interfaces which allow Windows Mobile users to access such service. Users can use their Windows Live ID to set up some preferences (such as preferred image size, search domain, etc) associated with the ID.
A Mobile Socially-Aware Tour Guide Application	Jiachen Chen	[9] [10] [11] [12]	The team will develop an application which allows users to photograph/speak/input the name of a tour attraction and then invoke the cloud OCR/speak-to-text services and search engines to discover and share the information about this attraction. Users can write on the electronic-wall created for the attraction to share information. Users can also invite people who also visited the same attraction to be friends, get other people's comments or leave their own ones on this attraction, and recommend this attraction to other people.