Blog Comments
Last week I blogged about my educational and career goals. This week, we compared our goals to our classmates’. Here are some comments I left on a couple of my team members’ blogs:
Capstone Project Ideas
After reviewing the capstone festival, here are a few ideas for potential capstone projects:
- Agentic AI is the next step in artificial intelligence. Instead of merely providing information like a chatbot, AI agents can actually complete tasks, which opens up a whole new world of possibilities. There are a few AI agent frameworks available that could be helpful with a project like this, for example, Google’s Agent Development Kit, Microsoft’s AutoGen, n8n, and the OpenAI Agents SDK. The adk-samples repo and the Open AI docs have a few examples of agentic AI projects. For a project like this to work, it would help to have a business problem that AI could help solve, perhaps from a partner organization.
- Cybersecurity should be a top priority for all organizations, and new tools like CodeQL can help automate the process of discovering and mitigating vulnerabilities. I’m interested in learning more about the Security Scan Summary Project with the US Naval Research Laboratory. The project mentioned that they generated PDF reports, but it may be useful to have a web dashboard for viewing these reports, which would be a great way to build on the previous capstone project.
- Large Language Models are becoming increasingly important in business, education, and everyday life. Pre-trained models like Llama allow anyone to run and fine-tune their own LLM, and LLMs can even run in web browsers now, for example, via WebLLM. I have an existing project called journaling.place that I could integrate an LLM into, which could be an interesting capstone project.
Weekly Summary
This week was mostly about planning for our capstone project and our careers after CS Online. I’m definitely interested in internship programs and perhaps graduate school. I’ll make sure to spend more time finding opportunities and researching programs as my time in CS Online progresses.
For CST 300, we used AI to develop our stakeholder analysis for the ethics essay, which helped me to think about the issue in some ways I hadn’t already considered.
I also spent some time learning about AI. The AI ecosystem is fairly mature at this point, so it’s a great time to dive in and learn from all of the resources available. It’s amazing that we can have AI teach us how it works, just by asking the right questions.