A- Geo-whatever and Project Malcontent

At the start of our class we decided that, since all of our first two entries for our final project were horrendous, we ditched the presentations and worked on our projects. Originally the group that I am in wanted to do something regarding health care, which turned into doing a mapping system for 911 dispatchers to help them prioritize their calls, which we then found out already exists. So our project at the current moment is null. It also didn't help that we sought help from our professor that was not responded to in a timely manner to say the least. 

Never the less, after we discussed our projects, what a requirements analysis actually was, and what a high level design was, we had a presenter about GIS. He works for Penn State as a professor and researcher in the Department of Geography for GeoVISTA. His presentation was okay, I have to say that Geographic Information Systems do not spike my interest in the least therefore I didn't really pay too close of attention to his presentation. One thing I did pick up on though was how he was using social media to geographically see what was occurring in geographic areas; and that Penn State wanted to use that technology on Penn State students during the rioting and protesting during the last few tumultuous weeks. Luckily, he saw a conflict of interest so that technology was not made available.

All in all, he knew his stuff, and my group is still struggling with our project.