About
My name is Kayla Eucken. I am from Scio, Oregon, a town of about 700 people located approximately 25 miles SSE of Salem. I was homeschooled from birth until junior college when I started taking classes at Chemeketa Community College in Salem (and Stayton, where they have the Santiam campus). Since then I have graduated with an Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer degree from Chemeketa and an Associate of Science in Applied Computer Science from Linn Benton Community College in Albany.
I was originally going to be a laboratory chemist but then I got interested in web design and switched to a Computer Science major. I’ve been hooked for good since taking my first programming class, although I am still minoring in Chemistry.
I am currently (as of 2008) going to be continuing as a Senior at Western Oregon University in Monmouth. Upon surviving one more year and a Senior Project I will graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering Emphasis. I am planning to work for a year and then perhaps go to graduate school though I don’t know where or doing what.
In my free time I enjoy playing computer games and sewing costumes for myself and my friends who participate in a Live Action Role-Playing game called Legacy in which I am a Fae-Elf healer. I also spend as much of my free time as possible with my fiance Jason.
I hope you enjoy my site detailing my summer at the University of Washington working on their RFID Ecosystem project. I am working with Assistant Professor Magdalena Balazinska who works in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.
Briefly, my project is set in the RFID Ecosystem in the Paul G. Allen Center at the University of Washington. The RFID Ecosystem was created by wiring the 6-floor building with antennas and RFID readers.
The researchers on the ecosystem project have previously created demo versions of event specification and detection applications. My project is to take the demo event specification software and make it work for a real user. This includes allowing the user to load a template event and specify the missing details.
The other part of my project is to allow the user to subscribe to a notification system for events they have specified. This means that the system will watch for the event that they specified and then send them an email, SMS, or phone message indicating that the event has actually occurred.