Demo schedule (July and August, 1998)

Demo weeks end on Wednesdays since Dartmouth holds their demo status meetings on Wednesdays.

Completion date Tasks
July - week one

(July 2 - July 8)

DONE Lockheed : Provide schema for SALUTE and black-gray-white databases
DONE Alex : Agent interface to the mySQL database
DONE Mike : Initial routing agent
DONE Bob : Writeup new scenario
DONE George and Bob : Get Harvard's source code
DONE Everyone : Discuss new scenario
July - week two

(July 9 - July 15)

DONE AlphaTech : Comment on scenario writeup
DONE Lockheed : Comment on scenario writeup
DONE Alex : Agent interface to tracker
DONE Mike : Network-level neighbor-discovery with our Ethernet cards
DONE David : Map display
July - week three

(July 16 - July 22)

DONE Alex: : Load black-gray-white database
DONE Alex : Observation-delivery agent
DONE David : Observation-delivery GUI
DONE Mike : Propagate neighbor information into the routing agent
DONE Mike : Start port of Harvard software to Linux
July - week four

(July 23 - July 29)

DONE Alex : Agent interface to Smart databases
DONE Alex : Load two Smart databases (i.e., cultural references and news feeds)
DONE Bob : Interface map with GPS units
DONE Mike : Finish port of Harvard software to Linux
DONE Bob : Final scenario reflecting Lockheed's and AlphaTech's comments
August - week one

(July 30 - Aug 5)

DONE Alex : Query agents (text databases)
DONE Robert : Query-entry GUI (text databases)
DONE Mike : Propagate Harvard routing information into the routing agent
August - week two

(Aug 6 - Aug 12)

DONE Alex : Propagate tracker hypotheses into the SALUTE database
DONE Robert : Query-results GUI (text only)
DONE Mike : Clean up code, add README's and startup scripts, and start writeup
DONE Bob : Propagate laptop position information to central database
DONE Everyone : Decide on appropriate audience displays (soldier's GUI, map with physical locations, map with agent locations, map with network connectivity and tracker output)
DONE Everyone : Decide on demo data (black-gray-white: 10-20 real terrorists, and 10-20 Hanover people; news: articles about the real terrorist incident, and articles from the Dartmouth college newspaper; background: articles describing the real terrorist and the countries that have supported it, and articles describing the history of Hanover and the college)
DONE Everyone: : Decide on provisional list of interesting queries (1: description of a person looking at a building - search BGW to identity the person, search news and background for background information on the person, and search news and background for background information on the building (e.g., does the building have local significance?); 2: description of a vehicle - search BGW to identify owner, and search news and background for background information on the owner; 3: person - lookup known associates in BGW, and search news and background for background information about those associates (particularly information that mentions both the person and one or more associates); 4: straight keyword queries against news and background to find information relating to a certain interview topic; and 5: automatic standing queries that push current object locations to soldier's map displays)
August - week three

(Aug 13 - Aug 19)

DONE Alex : Query agents (SALUTE and black-gray-white databases)
DONE Robert : Query-entry GUI (black-gray-white database)
DONE Mike : Finish writeup and transfer code to Bob
DONE Bob : Adapt soldier's GUI to make a larger display that shows positions of all objects
DONE Daniela, Mark and Ken : Clustering software ready to be integrated into David's GUI
August - week four

(Aug 20 - Aug 26)

DONE Mark and Ken : Transfer clustering code to Bob and Alex
DONE Daniel : Find data for the demo databases
DONE Alex : Final code cleanup
DONE Bob : Make Metricom radio modems work under Linux
DONE Bob : Add network connectivity to audience map display
August - week five

(Aug 27 - Sep 2)

DONE Daniel : Load demo data into the databases
DONE Alex : Document, transfer code to Bob, and talk to Carlos to identify any remaining tracker issues
DONE Dave : GUI tweaks, integrate text-query code and transfer code to Bob (temporarily over break)


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