The pinnacle event of IPPD, the Final Design Review (FDR) is just over horizon, on April 23rd. By this date, we not only have to complete our prototype, but also need to have finished our FDR Report. This is a massive document consisting of five volumes, which describes our project in such detail that it can be passed off to our sponsor to continue making progress on it. We have been gradually working on this document over the course of the semester, but with prototyping requirements waning we have started allocating more resources to the completion of this document. Fortunately, we have made progress, and are on track to have a first draft completed by next Tuesday. We have also made some prototyping progress this week, though it is mostly on the integration front. We have successfully assembled the alert subsystem. Progress was also made on computer vision, as a versioning issue with a GPU acceleration package was resolved. To see how our report evolves, be sure to read about in next week’s post.