A listing of potential projects for ISDA student employees or any student within MIT (with support from ISDA)

MIT Tag (bookmarks) Cloud Service

Provide a MIT wide tag cloud service (like Delicious) with the following functionality (note: this is an initial list of functional requirements). Ideally, Scuttle could be used (with enhancements)

  • Support for multiple browsers (IE7, Firefox, Safari at a min)
  • API for integration into department or enterprise apps/products so we have one place to track all tags (ie IS&T wiki service would use this service as the tagging engine instead of its own)
  • Integration with external tag service (Delicious, Magnolia etc) so we can browse all our tags from one view.
  • Support MITs authentication (MIT Touchstone) service. Allow for public and private tags
  • Offline capability (use OpenLaszlo's Webtop or Adobe AIR or MS' Silverlight or Google Gears)
  • Rating capability

REST interfaces to access the Data Warehouse

  • Build a few REST interfaces for the DW. We are getting access requests for non-ODBC  connections to the DW so that DLCs can integrate data from the DW with their local apps.
  • Will need to analyze what kinds of changes will be required (infrastructure, policies and data access mechanisms

SIP Applications

  • Use the IS&T "Personal SIP Service" to build new apps
  • Some ideas: an applet for "Click to Dial" that can be used by any web app
  • Integration of our SIP service with mitChat (our XMPP based IM service). mitChat is based on Jive Software's OpenFire product. They have existing clients that do support SIP and Jingle

 

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  1. Stephen C Buckley

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    The MIT Kerberos Consortium is in need of some help in identifying, selecting and operationalizing web-based systems to support collaboration between the MIT Kerberos Team, sponsors of the MIT Kerberos Consortium and external contributors to the Kerberos code base.

    This project is more complex than simply grabbing some system off the shelf and installing it for us. This project is the same as any situation that one might encounter when working for a large IT consultancy, and will have real impact on how our organization does its work.

    The first part of this project will involve careful study of the current systems and processes for doing work, how that work will change as a result of a new organizational form, the available types of technologies available to support this new organizational form (blogs, wikis, email, project management systems, bug tracking systems, discussion boards, etc.), and the creation of a report making specific recommendations.

    The second part of this project will involve executing on those recomendations