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The Compassion Project Mitchell Black, Kyle Melton, and Amelia Getty 25 April 2019 Abstract The Compassion Project is a public, collaborative art installation sourced from approximately 6,500 artists around Bozeman. Each participating artist painted an 8”x8” wooden block with their own interpretation of compassion. To accompany their art, each artist wrote an artist statement defining compassion or explaining how their block relates to compassion. We created a mobile app as a companion to the installation. The primary usage of this app is to allow visitors to lookup the artist statement on their phone from the unique ID number assigned to each block. Additional app functionality includes favoriting pictures, personal user viewing history, and usage statistics. We also performed a comparative analysis of image descriptors for the blocks. We were interested in the idea using an picture to search for that block artist’s statement. We have images of each block to be used as a thumbnail when users look up a block. To evaluate which image descriptors are most effective at grouping the blocks, we took secondary photos of a subset of the blocks and tested whether the descriptors can pair the thumbnail of a block to our photo of a block. 1 Qualifications See attached resumes. 2 Bozeman, MT 59718 ⋄ 406-580-3154⋄ [email protected] ⋄ linkedin.com/in/ameliagetty Amelia Getty Computer Science senior with diverse experience poised to transition to software development or engineering. Organized and dependable. Aptitude to learn quickly and work independently and with a team. PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE Java ⋄ PHP (Laravel) ⋄ C ⋄ Python ⋄ C++ ⋄ SQL Linux Systems Admin ⋄ Databases ⋄ Graphics ⋄ Networks ⋄ Security (2019) EDUCATION ♢ Computer Science. Montana State University, 2017 - 2019 ♢ BA Modern Languages and Literatures, German. (+ Pre-vet) Montana State University: 2007 - 2013 ♢ Electrical Engineering. Universität Stuttgart, semester abroad 2010 PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Leadership ⋄ Web Development ⋄ Clerical ⋄ Collections ⋄ Records Maintenance ⋄ Customer Service ⋄ Maintaining Inventory ⋄ Stocking ⋄ Filing ⋄ Data Interpretation ♢ Founder, DevOps; artfight.net 08/2015 - present Programmed web app with a small group of coders and managed the remote linux server using the LAMP stack and Laravel. Lead a small team of volunteer moderators. ♢ Office Specialist; Michaels Arts and Crafts 08/2013 - 12/2015 Promoted from replenishment associate on the recommendation of my peers. Maintained store sales, HR, and payroll records. Prepared daily store bank deposit. Maintained inventory of store use items and supplies. Facilitated inbound direct freight shipments and paperwork and provided superior customer service. ♢ Replenishment Associate; Michaels Arts and Crafts 08/2012 - 08/2013 Unloaded truck. Organized shelves and product. Set up advertising signs, cashiered. ♢ BOREALIS Intern; Montana Space Grant Consortium, Montana State University Summer 2008 Accepted as an MSGC intern from a pool of applicants with high recommendations. Launched and recovered high altitude balloons. Designed and maintained on-board experiments and data collection devices. Interpreted collected data. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT LANGUAGES ♢ Heart of the Valley Animal Shelter, Bozeman, MT (25 hrs, 2014-2015) ♢ English ♢ Camp Husky Project Spay/Neuter Clinic, Butte, MT (2008) ♢ German ♢ Bioneers Conference, Bozeman, MT (2008) ♢ Physics Tutoring, MSU, Bozeman, MT (2008) KYLE MELTON 200 Gallatin Hall – Room 412A Bozeman, MT 59715 760-914-2476 [email protected] linkedin.com/in/kyle-melton/ github.com/Mammothskier/ EDUCATION Montana State University August 2015 – May 2019 Bozeman, MT – B.S. in Computer Science and Computer Engineering – GPA: 3.14 – Courses in Networks, Software Engineering, Logic Design, and Linux Systems – Proficient in Java, Python, C, SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript WORK EXPERIENCE Software Intern, Blackmore Sensors and Analytics June 2018 – Present Bozeman, MT – Worked within multidisciplinary team to complete product development goals – Developed software within an agile development model – Used development tools such as Git and Google Test RELEVANT PROJECTS Bridger Solar Team June 2018 – Present – Designed communication system to remotely monitor solar car – Led team of software and computer engineers to complete weekly objectives – Developed code to gather GPS, IMU, and battery protection system data Bridger Robotics Team December 2016 – Present – Programmed mining robot that competed in the NASA Mining Competition – Developed user interface to display telemetry data – Integrated known software patterns into existing code base Giants Minecraft Plugin February 2014 – November 2016 – Created open source project to add functionality to base game – Provided technical support and continuous updates based on user demand – Downloaded by 28,000 users LEADERSHIP Founding President, oSTEM at Montana State University December 2017 – Present Montana State University – Created MSU Student Organization to support LGBT students – Led an officer team to complete club objectives – Awarded Lavender Leader Award in May 2018 Mitchell Black 201 South 11th Ave Apt 23 Bozeman, MT 57915 406-491-4194 [email protected] Education Montana State University, Bozeman, MT Bachelors of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics, May 2019, GPA: 3.94 Relevant Experience Senior Project The Compassion Project Sep 2018-Present I am part of a team of three students that built a mobile app for local art project The Compassion Project. The Compassion Project had thousands of community members paint a wooden block on the theme of compassion and write an artist statement on how their painting relates to compassion. Our app allows visitors to the exhibit to look up artists’ statements for each block, as well as to favorite blocks and access their viewing history. Summer Intern Los Alamos National Laboratory May-Aug 2018 I interned with the Filesystems Team in the High Performance Computing division. My project was to write scripts to gather data from the Lustre filesystems on LANL’s computing clusters. I also made dashboards in Splunk - a data visualization tool - to allow cluster administrators to monitor the current state of the filesystem and alert them to problems. USP Funded Undergraduate Research Montana State University Jan-May 2018 I conducted research on the Minimum Road Trips problem, an NP hard graph problem. I primarily researched related graph problems in graph flow and flow decomposition. Other Recent Work Experience Student Custodian Montana State University Jan 2019-Present Student Data Entry Employee Montana State University Alumni Foundation Sep 2015-May 2018 Honors and Awards MSU Mathematics Department Outstanding Scholar Award Spring 2017, 2018 COMAP Mathematic Modeling Competition: Honorable Mention 2018, 2019 Montana Mathematical Modeling Competition: Finalist, Presentation Portion Oct 2017 Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honors Society Spring 2018 Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honors Society Spring 2017 Montana University System Honors Scholarship 2014 Background The Compassion Project is a program designed to bring the Gallatin Valley together by studying compassion. Each participant in the program receives an 8x8 inch wooden block that they can use to express their compassion. Once completed, the wooden block will be displayed at several sites around the Bozeman community. There are 6,000 painted blocks, and each of these have an accompanying artist statement. With the limited space and bountiful blocks, an app is needed to provide the user with the artist statement and installation site. The Compassion Project app can be viewed as an automated tour guide, in that it gives viewers to the exhibit the ability to independently get information on each piece. Prior to smartphones, many museums used cassettes or other audio players for automated tour guides with numbered tracks to allow museum goers to get information on individual exhibits by playing the corresponding track. Nowadays, many museums have developed smartphone apps that serve as automated tour guides. These apps use a variety of technologies to provide users with descriptions of artworks. A notable example of this is “My Visit to the Louvre,” an application that provides users with audio guides and written descriptions of pieces in the museum and suggests exhibits to the user. This app provides a lookup feature where museum-goers can look up works by an ID number to get a description of this piece [1]. This app is most similar to the Compassion Project app, but other museums have taken different approaches. One such approach is SFMOMA’s app “SFMOMA Audio.” This app uses the GPS location of museum-goers to determine their location in the museum and to provide an audio description of the artwork they are standing in front of [2]. Another approach is a paper out of Stanford which explores the idea of using image recognition to allow users to take a picture of a painting and to return a description of the painting in the picture [3]. We chose a simpler approach as a matter of triage. It would only be marginally more convenient for the user to take a picture of a block to get a description than to search by number, but it would be significantly more difficult to implement the former approach than the latter approach. Because of this, we felt we could improve our app much more by implementing a simple search strategy and focusing on other components of our app than to implement a difficult