Projects ideas for students

                                    Bogineni Chenchu Rama Naidu

 

·         IPTV

o        Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is a system through which internet television services are delivered using the architecture and networking methods of the Internet Protocol Suite over a packet-switched network infrastructure, e.g., the Internet and broadband Internet access networks, instead of being delivered through traditional radio frequency broadcast, satellite signal, and cable television (CATV) formats.

o        The number of global IPTV subscribers is expected to grow from 28 million in 2009 to 83 million in 2013.

The global IPTV market revenues are forecasted to grow from US$12 billion in 2009 to US$38 billion in 2013. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTV

·         Cryptography

o        Modern cryptography intersects the disciplines of mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Applications of cryptography include ATM cards, computer passwords, and electronic commerce.

·         Students may look into the famous university links and get lecture notes and project ideas about the latest topics:

o        http://mit.edu/

o        http://www.stanford.edu

o        http://www.cmu.edu

·         The students may look in Google and get some open source software projects:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open_source_software_packages

·         SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based software design

·         High priority free software projects:

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/

o        Free Google Earth Replacement

Google Earth is a proprietary software program for visualizing and annotating map data. We need a free software version of this client. Accessing Google's data may not be possible, so any client should work with various other data sources, including free map data projects such as Open Street Maps.

Ways to help. Develop or improve a 3D rendering engine that reads KML files on par with Google Earth. Contribute to free map data services such as the Open Street Maps project, and contribute to geographical map programs such as Marble.

o        Free software video editing software

Many users are seduced into using proprietary software for video editing because they are unable to achieve the effects they want using the current state of the art in free software video editing and production software. More and more everyday computer users are becoming amateur videographers, and we need to make sure that their operating systems come complete with free software to meet their needs.

Ways to help. There are a number of quality, free software video editing programs, such as Kino, Cinelerra, AVIDemux, Kdenlive, LiVES, Lumiera, as well as PiTiVi, Blender, and the Open Movie Editor. Along the way, the easiest way to help is to use these editors and to encourage others to do the same. You can help these projects directly by submitting bug reports, adding features, improving usability, and creating tutorials, guides, and documentation.