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Project for November 9, 2004

The Plan

• probably don't want to be doing much project work this week due to exam
• this week and next week will be short; will combine to make one class
• following week is Allen Downey who won't be covering Project
• following week is last class.

• => there will be only one programming "thing" left to do for the course.

  • Suggestion/hope: play with graphs

    • Some source of data with interconnections w/in the data
      • ie the web -- use your webcrawler to tell you whether pages are connected
      • semantic web: FOAF is an excellent source; everything is about who knows who
      • Olin directory?
      • Olinbuster: who has similar movies?
      • Amazon: "People who liked this book also liked..."
    • We'll be covering graph data and algorithms more explicitly after thanksgiving
  • If you've been doing something else and are dying to get back to it, that's fine.
  • The other topics we'll be covering over the remainder of the semester are not as amenable to projects. Just the graphs.

Prolog stuff

• Steve: A most awesome adventure game about a beast who has stolen your stapler. Get all the items you need, then go hunt that sunuvabitch down.
• Sean: Adventure game about Olin. Like Steve's, with addition of other agents/people(like, say, Jeannine Lalonde), and you need certain keys to get into certain places. Bring your diploma to the president's office, and you win.

• Katie: Taxonomies in english ("a _ is a _") using prolog grammar syntax (-->) and parsing.

• Jesus: Sentence generator with proper and pro nouns, int and trans verbs.

>>> It would be cool to make these executables (use gplc, which comes with gprolog I think) and distribute them.

For Next Time

1. Let Lynn know what your plan is, be it:
   • continuing a past project
   • graphs
   • ???
2. Work on it. We'll look at them ... the last class, and briefly next week.