Decisions in life can be

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Year 1Initiatives•Peer Tutorship Program•ASP.net Workshop•Microsoft Challenge Cup

Roles•Microsoft Student Partners•SCS Student Representative

Microsoft Challenge Cup

Year 2Initiatives

Windows Vista and Office TourX-Challenge, SCS Splash Awards 2008

Roles(Lead for MSP and SCS Student Representative)

AwardsModel Student Award

Year 3Initiatives

Mix for Students

FYPConfero: Smart Car System

Awards for ConferoSiTF Infocomm Singapore WinnerImagine Cup 2008 Runner upSpinnovex 2009 Project ShowcaseDMIT Industry Night Project Showcase

Internship*Microsoft Singapore

Mix for Students

Project Confero

Microsoft Innovation Centre

Orion : The HunterFree Triangulation Service

Orion : Architecture Diagram

• Reverse lookup of Location (Triangulation)– Accuracy and precision– Coverage Area; black out area under tunnel

• Data Refinement– Algorithm for dropping dirty data– Algorithm for efficient processing of dataset over 1.4

million individual tuples– GPS Receiver giving inaccurate data due to bad weather,

underground tunnels, buildings signal reflection– Issue of distinguishing between road data and shopping

centre data

Orion : Challenges

dM1 1st

M1 2nd

M1 3rd

M1 4th

M1 5th

Singtel 1st

Singtel 2nd

Singtel 3rd

Singtel 4th

Singtel 5th

Starhub 1st

Starhub 2nd

Starhub 3rd

Starhub 4th

Starhub 5th

• Tracking application for government agency dealing with national security

• Location aware user-generated news application for publishing firm

• Marketing/advertisement applications• Location aware real estate mobile application• Photo taking application with geo-tagging capabilities

for blogging purposes• FYP Project in polytechnics such as elderly tracking,

friends-near-me application.

Orion : Organization Use Cases

*Organizations are not named in accordance with NDA with Microsoft and respective firms

Orion : Community Contributions

• Sharing at SGDotNET, PPCSG, and MobFest user group meeting and events

• Student consultant on SQL Spatial, Virtual Earth and Orion for various startups and firms

Demonstration

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