Current Status

Several central components are now functioning to initial design parameters and data can now be passed through the system successfully. Many planning and design decisions are still being made, along with various specification documents. Detailed information can usually be found in the meeting minutes. Code is viewable via CVS to UKC users only.

 

Presentations

On Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th October all members of the group made presentations to various groups of peers.

For those who are interested you can view an online version of our presentation here.
Alternatively you can download a powerpoint version from here.

 

Naming History

The name i-scream arose from a meeting whereupon one member of our group randomly chose to draw an ice cream on the white board. It later became apparent that we had no name for our project (other than 'The Project'). It seemed only natural to name our project after the ice cream that had been oh-so-randomly drawn on the white board. Copyright issues immediately ruled out anything involving Mr Whippy, so we had to settle for i-scream. And thus, we were left with a cunning play on words - it still sounded like ice cream, yet also served as a functional decription of our system - namely, one which screams at somebody if something has gone wrong...