As I said, here is a list of projects I developed at SIMS:
Final Project: "The Berkeley XML Application Infrastructure"
The COURSE Project
Business Method Patents
Google's Business Strategy
The Vineguard System
Project Matching -- User Interface Design
e-Berkeley IT projects registration process
Heuristic Evaluation of the SearchLight service of the California Digital Library
Advisor: Prof. Robert J. Glushko - Fall 2002 and Spring 2003 with Patrick Garvey, John Jairo Leon, and Calvin Smith.
Our project consists of a set of tools, methodologies, and artifacts that compose an infrastructure for conducting model driven software development using XML Schema as a basis. Our project demonstrates how Information Architecture, one of the core competencies of a SIMS education, can be used to generate deployable systems with a minimum of code customization. Systems built in this manner will be more robust, flexible, and easy to maintain. We applied Document Engineering methods and developed tools that embodied best practices in UI design techniques. We collaborated with campus IT and operational units to ensure that our tools and techniques are relevant and usable for real-world applications as well as for course projects. Our collaboration produced a reference implementation of the UC Berkeley Course Approval System. We intend that this implementation will become the model for further application development here at SIMS and at Berkeley.
IS-290/12 Document Engineering and Web Services Foundations for e-Berkeley - Prof. Robert J. Glushko - Fall 2002 with Patrick Garvey, John Jairo Leon, and Sonia Kemplerer-Johnson.
In this research project we analyzed the COURSE system in the University of California at Berkeley and its interactions with other systems on campus and created an XML component library that describes courses in a way that can be used by multiple campus systems.
IS-224 Strategic Computing and Communications Technology - Profs. Hal Varian and David Messerschmitt - Fall 2002 with Holly Liu (SIMS), Melinda Macauley (MBA, Haas), and Pete Perlegos (EECS).
This presentation analyzes the issue of Business Method Patents. It is a controvertial topic whether business methods should be patentable. We analyzed different arguments pro and against the patentability of business methods.
IS-224 Strategic Computing and Communications Technology - Profs. Hal Varian and David Messerschmitt - Fall 2002 with Holly Liu (SIMS), Melinda Macauley (MBA, Haas), and Pete Perlegos (EECS).
This presentation analyzes the strategy of Google. We emphasize our analysis in issues surronding lock-in of consumers, brand, products and other factors which explain Google's success. We also make recommendations for future plans.
ME-221 High-Tech Product Design and Rapid Manufacturing Prof. Paul Wright- Fall 2002 with Meera Chary (Mech Eng), Greg Dalton (Mech Eng), David Sadeli (Mech Eng) and Luis Villafana (SIMS).
For this class we developed a wireless system for wineries. This new system collects all sorts of information using sturdy weather-proof pocked sized gadgets, or motes. Motes are spaced throughout the vineyard, between the vines such that they are out of the way of humans and farm equipment. Each mote has soil moisture probes placed into the ground at 6 inches depth intervals and temperature sensors placed above the vines. The probes measure temperature and soil moisture data once every hour and send the data to the base mote. The user can easily access and view this data on .the convenient interface on his/her PC. The data can also be graphed to show time-varying trends. Little user-interaction is involved in operation of the Vineguard. Parts are reliable and easy to replace, if necessary. The prototype code (Visual Basic) is available upon request.
IS-213 User Interface Design and Development - Prof. Marti Hearst - Spring 2002 with John Jairo Leon, Holly Liu, and Luis Villafana.
For this project, my team and I used formal methodologies to design a user interface for the project matching system. The project matching system is inteded to help students and faculty at Sims in the process of looking for new project ideas and conforming project teams.
IS-208 Analysis of Information Organizations and Systems - Profs. Peter Lyman and Yale Braunstein - Spring 2002 with John Jairo Leon and Holly Liu.
Analysis of the registration process of IT projects at e-Berkeley and proposal of alternatives of solution to automatize and make the process more efficient.
IS-213 User Interface Design and Development - Prof. Marti Hearst - Spring 2002
This is an evaluation done on the SearchLight service about the violation of heuristics in user interface design.
Last updated: January 2004