Progress report for CMPS 598 Co.

We have been trying to run this class as a IT startup company. All students are "hired" as employees of the company CMPS 598 Co.; the teachers became the initial directors of the company. We have invited entrepreneurs and experts in different but relevant fields to serve on the advisory board. Many of them will give talks to the class, from different angles, addressing issues that are not covered in a conventional computer science curriculum.

In this starting stage, students individually work on producing several "products" , by writing articles for this blog, by generating innovative ideas for the company to develop in near future, by giving small presentations to the class. We had the first production meeting last week. The progress of our production was reported, issues and problems were addressed. It was decided that our future process will be tuned.


As can be seen from the screen shot of StatCounter "Recent Visitor Map" above, our blog (as one of the products) are having visitors not only from local, but also from California, Canada, and many places in Europe, Asia and South America.

While most of the employees of CMPS 598 Co. are still scratching their head, trying to develop a creative idea, come up with an interesting topic for blog article, or be busy with preparing their class presentations, there are good signs. The first student presentation "Cloud Computing" was really good! There are several really good ideas in development! Also, we are writing better-quality articles for this blog. A 3-person photographer team has been setup to take pictures for recording and publicity purposes.