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Working on finding out newer ways my technology could be used. Already know and have tested 4 applications. Thought of another silly use while replying to rtm t

by atiw 17y ago

Working on finding out newer ways my technology could be used. Already know and have tested 4 applications. Thought of another silly use while replying to rtm thus sunday. I actually have been trying to get back to coding, but things are not so good. Hoping to kick off some of the 8-10 hour streaks of coding sometime tomorrow and all over the weekend. Do you guys know, when we might get emails ?? Also, I am really kinda hoping to get my product out there and get some preliminary customers. Any good ways to get some university people interested and try out our web app? How does someone contact university people? Anyone a university department head/ faculty here by any chance?? If yes, do you guys HATE emails as way to introduction to products ?? My first focus (without funding way) is to sell a service to universities.

atiw 17y ago
Apologies, I just got too excited and started asking questions and crying for help about finding customers, probably inappropriate for this discussion. Desperate times... :)
danielzarick 17y ago
I'm a student and work for Columbia College Chicago's Online Student Communications office. We handle most of the school's web projects. What are you working on? (Feel free to email me = daniel.zarick at gmail)
- atiw 17y ago
  Sorry, I got late in replying. I really wanted to make a good video and/or write a good concise description to tell you about my product. Well, I just got too busy. So, here it is. In short, my software solves the "university course scheduling" problem. This problem is one that occurs on a department level. Basically, department heads/ registrar's office need to decide every semester which class room assignments for various courses. Now, there are rules about which courses can be scheduled together, and then there are preferences for each professor and then there are only so many number of classrooms available at any given time. My software takes in all those constraints /rules, number of rooms available and also serves as a collaboration tool to collect time slot preferences from professors and solves the problem. Currently, among the departments we have surveyed, it takes anywhere from 50-100 hours every semester, for each department head to solve this problem, since there is no tool for this. Also, this is a NP-Complete problem. So, there are good chances of errors, and/or unhappy professors. There is no flexibility in hard coded tools. This tool confirms to your rules. There is a lot of things that you could change and the tool solves the problem for you then. I only have a crappy demo right now, since the tool is only 99% complete still. But it does the job. www.skejulers.com/demoing So, please let department heads in your college have a look. I think they will be able to make sense about what i going on here. Or, I can make the demo better, and the tool a little better and introduce some description as to what is going on there.

by atiw 17y ago

atiw 17y ago

Apologies, I just got too excited and started asking questions and crying for help about finding customers, probably inappropriate for this discussion. Desperate times... :)

danielzarick 17y ago

I'm a student and work for Columbia College Chicago's Online Student Communications office. We handle most of the school's web projects. What are you working on? (Feel free to email me = daniel.zarick at gmail)

atiw 17y ago
Sorry, I got late in replying. I really wanted to make a good video and/or write a good concise description to tell you about my product. Well, I just got too busy. So, here it is. In short, my software solves the "university course scheduling" problem. This problem is one that occurs on a department level. Basically, department heads/ registrar's office need to decide every semester which class room assignments for various courses. Now, there are rules about which courses can be scheduled together, and then there are preferences for each professor and then there are only so many number of classrooms available at any given time. My software takes in all those constraints /rules, number of rooms available and also serves as a collaboration tool to collect time slot preferences from professors and solves the problem. Currently, among the departments we have surveyed, it takes anywhere from 50-100 hours every semester, for each department head to solve this problem, since there is no tool for this. Also, this is a NP-Complete problem. So, there are good chances of errors, and/or unhappy professors. There is no flexibility in hard coded tools. This tool confirms to your rules. There is a lot of things that you could change and the tool solves the problem for you then. I only have a crappy demo right now, since the tool is only 99% complete still. But it does the job. www.skejulers.com/demoing So, please let department heads in your college have a look. I think they will be able to make sense about what i going on here. Or, I can make the demo better, and the tool a little better and introduce some description as to what is going on there.