Google Summer of Code 2015 successful projects are listed here. Students are encouraged to add and modify descriptions about the projects.
Template to add information: https://groups.drupal.org/node/510397#template
Hawk Authentication integration for Drupal 8
Student: Shitiz Garg, @dragooon
Mentor: Jingsheng Wang, @skyredwang
Link to the project: https://www.drupal.org/project/hawk_auth
Project description: Hawk Authentication is a module that supports HAWK, an HTTP authentication scheme using a message authentication code (MAC) algorithm to provide partial HTTP request cryptographic verification.
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Making Drupal smarter by learning from users
Student: Lucian Hangea, @Ihangea
Mentor: Albert Skibinski, @askibinski
Link to the project: https://github.com/lhangea/experiment
Project description: General framework to conduct experiments for advanced AI usages in Drupal by using a class of algorithms called multi-armed bandit algorithms which use reinforcement learning to display content variations based on user behavior
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