Meetings and Name Selection

Today we had meet with clients at Lockheed.

Of the many points noted, the following two seem to summarize our understanding better:

1. The survey should be anonymous. in other words, the player should just play the game while generating solutions.. 

2. look into the aspects what computers cant do and what humans can do better.

We will put the survey idea in the back seat and try fiddling with new ideas. 

Our objective henceforth would be to find problems that are challenging enough and specific enough to apply our solution.

We met with John and Shirley and did get a lot of new perspectives

-interpretation of unintelligible ( colloquial ) text

-missing the soul ideas:

• -understanding the emotion of a person with the sentence ( like in email )
• -script writer -> director = challenge of understanding what the scriptwriter meant
• -personal interpretation - varies between individuals

-first impressions of people -> what are the things you can figure out on seeing a persons image? - the metadata

   as humans we can know a lot about a person on seeing his/her image, but what about a computer?

-rating creativity

-cheating - computers cant cheat. they just do the best of what they know..

-Lie - computers cant lie about the information they have. every query either gives the right answer or no answer. but why would we want them to lie?

-judging a person

-no qualities of compassion, love and emotions for a computer

-musically jamming with an instrument

tip: think about more than one idea at a time. it helps to channelize your thoughts instead of curtailing it.

use flash modules for project development. thy reduce turnaround time for code.

Then we brainstormed the name of our team seriously for 3 hours. 

we wanted a 1 word short name, that sounded cool, was unique and had a meaning.

after sifting through latin, macedonian, estonian, german and other translations as well as english, we ended up with the following four

Nebula - a galaxy of stars, and its cool

Emersyn - a combo of emergent gameplay and synergy

Sinergy - Synergy misspelled so that its unique

Hive - representing a swarm of bees that collectively solve a problem

we are probably going to pick Sinergy tomorrow. any name suggestions are welcome.