Name: Mark Humphrey <msh>

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Questions/comments about the syllabus or project handout:

How are teams formed?
Where is the project handout?

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Project Title 1: Hermes

Brief Description: 
A messenging/file-sharing program for windows/linux which can interface
with all popular messenging programs.

Identify Local Users: Brown students, anyone who needs to communicate

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
      Useful to others: 5
      Has specific users: 4
      Can be scaled up to PC product: 5
      Divisible: 3
      In C++ on Suns(?): 3

      Overall: 4

Pros:

Very useful.

Something that I think almost everyone, not just cs majors, would use

Cons:

Not sure how divisible this is.

Getting it to work on windows and linux may be difficult.

Unsure as to the difficulty of this project.

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Project Title 2: Prometheus

Brief Description: 
An integrated development environment for linux

Identify Local Users: CS students/faculty, linux users 

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
      Useful to others: 4
      Has specific users: 4
      Can be scaled up to PC product: 3
      Divisible: 5
      In C++ on Suns(?): 5

      Overall: 4

Pros:

This is something that I think would be found useful by many people.

There is a wide pool of people to get input on this project from.

Cons:

Microsoft has lots and lots of people working full time on their popular 
product. We have 10 people with busy schedules and a few months.

This is a very big project.

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Project Title 3: Athena

Brief Description: 
Works with browser (plugin?) to inteligently block adds, pop-ups, and 
make browsing a more pleasureable experience

Identify Local Users: anyone

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
      Useful to others: 4
      Has specific users: 2
      Can be scaled up to PC product: 3
      Divisible: 2
      In C++ on Suns(?): 1

      Overall: 2

Pros:

Intereseting and useful application

Cons:

Perhaps to small and easy of a project

Several commercial versions already exist
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