Concerning an Intern Comment
My name is Tim Garvin. I’m a summer intern here at Oak Ridge National Lab, working on Sensorpedia with David and a host of others. During the school year, I’m an undergraduate in computer engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology, working my way towards an eventual masters in that field. My career interests, very broadly, hover somewhere around the areas of hardware design and development, network security (traffic analysis, intrusion detection), and the internal workings of most anything that’s not a user interface. I have a love of assembly and low level programming, as they require greater understanding and control of algorithms, but have also recently experienced the joys of python, with which I am doing some development currently.
Over the past year or so, Chris Tomkins-Tinch spent a fair amount of time describing to me how great his experience had been working on Sensorpedia. His excitement spread then to me, and now I find myself HERE @ ORNL, working on a variety of issues, very excited about helping to build a service and site at which any conceivable sensor data can live and be useful. In a world where sharing data freely among interested people is increasingly valued, sensor data can still be prohibitively hard to gather together. I’m confident that Sensorpedia is part of the key to closing the many gaps between all different types of sensors and sensor systems.
My list of activities here have grown over the three short weeks I’ve been here. So far they include:
- Helping to get existing sensor systems visible on the web app.
- Writing a python library to generate Sensorpedia-compatible ATOM feeds (Coming Soon!)
- Applying the Sensorpedia architecture to some real world problems
Over the next few months, you’ll be hearing from me (well, and everyone else) regarding the latest and greatest in Sensorpedia Development.
In the meantime, check out our API site to get a better feel of what’s going on with Sensorpedia.