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Preventing the spread of Covid-19 with an Apple Watch and a bit of machine learning
Covid-19 has been a major disruption world-wide for the past year. A team of GVSU computer science students spent time last fall aiming to disrupt the spread of Covid-19 via machine learning and wearable technologies. Sponsored by Procter & Gamble and...
DevOps Experiential Learning Opportunity!
Are you an undergraduate admitted into a GVSU School of Computing degree program and interested in DevOps? Michigan Software Labs of Ada, Michigan, is partnering with GVSU’s Applied Computing Institute to provide undergraduate computing students a unique...
GVSU team explores mobile app solution for culinary industry
Figure 1. From left to right: Christian Nkoulou Tsongui, Matt Neele, Jongin Seon, and Trungvuong Pham. When Matthew Neele, founder of ÔRKiD a startup in the culinary industry, needed a mobile app experience prototyped, he turned to GVSU’s Applied Computing...
Mobile App Helps Collect Data for Training Whirlpool Smart Appliance Machine Learning Algorithms
Whirlpool's smart appliances are revolutionizing the way everyday consumers interact with their household products. The objectives of Whirlpool’s Smart Counter Top Oven include a breakthrough user experience, enabling relationships with consumers through assisted...
Experiences using Google’s Flutter Framework
[Note - this article was contributed by Kaylin Zaroukian (BS in CS 2019)] For my group’s computer science capstone project we were tasked with building a mobile app that accompanies a shuttle service, with main features including routing and trip-planning. We had...
Laker Mobile 2.0 Is Here!
One of the latest projects of the MASL aimed to renovate the Laker Mobile iOS app, by following the most recent standards of the mobile application development industry. The original Laker Mobile app was released back in 2010 with some updates until 2014. This first...
MVP and Android?
Android is a beautiful, misunderstood platform. On one hand, the Android framework provides an accessible starting through Java, but drops the ball on user interface architecture. The iOS platform provides a straight-forward way of dealing with the separation of model...
Drone Delivers Coffee @ GVSU
Thanks to the clever programmers in the GVSU Mobile Applications and Services Lab no longer have to walk over to Kirkhoff to get their cup of Java! Instead, they dispatch a Bebop drone that flies across campus, and then sneaks into Kirkhoff behind a passing...
RGeo Problem on Heroku
The Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) Project is a national project that aims to decrease winter mortality of managed honeybee colonies by helping beekeepers keep colonies alive through surveys and data collection. Our lab is helping development some of the software BIP...
Smart Watches talk
Ehsan Valizade is a CS graduate student working in the GVSU Mobile Applications and Services Lab as a graduate assistant. He is currently doing his MS project in the area of smart watches. In this talk he will be presenting the history and current state of smart...