Marc-Antoine Parent

• Web site deployment (Plone)
• Prototype for dynamic database query (jQuery)

• Database design and implementation of the event calendar and schedule application (Django)

• Work on the web-scraping for e-Petitions in the Back-End web engine (PHP, libxml)

Closer Look - Search engine that identifies data in web databases

• Proof of concept for identification of web page structures based on XPaths for data mining (Python, libxml)

Undisclosed project

• General development (Java server, C++ client)
• Design and implementation of extensions to the communication protocol
• Gained experience with both Google-specific and open-source tools and development methods.
  • Client-server protocols with Protocol buffers
  • Internal tools for distributed process management, interprocess communication
  • Test-driven programming with jUnit/GoogleTest
  • Code reviews with Mondrian and Perforce
  • Templates and STL
  • SQLite
  • SCons
• Contributed to internationalization infrastructure (Python)

DistriBistro - Palm-based wireless ordering system for restaurants

• Requirements, UI design and architecture
• Peer-to-peer communication architecture
• Prototype completed (SuperWaba.) We decided not to proceed with production.

Speak@Ease Messager - Speech-enabled Unifed Messaging

• Initial architecture draft
• Advanced natural-language dialogue designs using pronoun reference
• Integration with Microsoft Exchange 2000 using CDO objects through XML
• Other components : web back-end (XSLT), upgrades, inter-process messaging

Translateor - Automatic translation system for English and French (project)

• Developed a robust meta-data architecture using XML for storage of linguistic information in an object-oriented database
• Participated in the development of a OO model for abstract semantic representation of text (UML, Java)

Giza - OO architecture for polymorphic representation of structured data using contextual, dynamic attributes

• Conception and programming (Java) of a new Design Pattern
• Approach was published at OOPSLA

Radio Insite - Dynamic HTML page generator for logs of CBC radio shows.

• Programming (Perl5) of a log file parser that adjusts to a meta-data file and stores the results in HTML templates

UKAT - Web interface to a knowledge assessment tool.

• Architecture and programming (C++) of a HTML template-based system

Francoroute - Prototype of a classification system for francophone Internet sites

• Team coordination, architecture and programming (Java, Perl 5, Oracle) of one of the first hybrid web search engines (using both keyword search and category classification), based on the Cheops approach
• Programming (Perl 5 and Oracle) of a web spider that explored French sites
• Programming (Perl 5) of a web-based site classification tool based on Dewey

CHEOPS - A navigation tool for hierarchical data

• Programming (Java) of a unique data navigation tool based on visual elision

Lys - Multilingual mail agent

• Architecture and programming (C++, ET++) of a Unicode-based mail agent able to handle Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts using font composition

Le Correcteur 101 v.2.0- French grammar analyzer and checker

• Team coordination between linguists and programmers, research in computational linguistics, algorithms, programming in C++
• Awards won by the software (version 1.0 or 2.0):
  • 1993, Prix Octas, from the Fédération d'Informatique du Québec
    
  • 1994, Prix du Français en Informatique, from GIRICO

Le Correcteur 101 v1.0b - French grammar analyzer and checker

• First grammar checker of the industry to do global parsing of French syntax
• Design and programming (C++) of the user interface on a platform-independent framework

Real-time neurobiology data acquisition system

• Reengineering (Vector Basic) of a graph display system

FéER estimate software

• Programming (MS-Basic) of an iterative analysis method
• Graphical user interface on a text-based display

Méga-Texte - word processor for primary school students

• Design and programming (6502) of a graphic-display based word processor on the Apple II+

Têtards - Labyrinth-type two-player video game

• Programming (6502 on Apple II+)
• First video game designed in Québec

Economic Systems Design (SYS5140)
Designed and presented an introduction to agent-based programming

Concepts des langages de programmation (CSI3525)
Participated to the design of laboratory demonstration and problems

Séminaire d'Introduction à l'hypertexte

Differential calculus (189-121A)

Initiation to Computer Science - evening course