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Intel Developer Forum 2011

At today’s keynote of the Intel Developer Forum 2011, Intel CEO Paul Otellini presents Intel’s vision about the future of computing. It came by surprise to see Google’s Senior Vice President of Mobile Andy Rubin get on stage during the … Continue reading

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Google I/O 2011

I consider myself lucky, getting one of the ~5000 Tickets for this year’s Google I/O, which sold out in 59 minutes. We heard exciting news about the next Version of Android “Ice Cream Sandwich”, which will fuse the latest Phone … Continue reading

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AquaChem at BlackBerry App World

I am very excited to announce, that as of today, AquaChem is available in the BlackBerry App World. AquaChem is a handy tool to solve common Aquatic Chemistry equations for determination of Activity Coefficients, Ionization Fractions and Equilibrium Constants. The … Continue reading

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AquaChem for the BlackBerry PlayBook

Research in Motion announced: everyone who submits an application for the BlackBerry PlayBook by March 15, would receive a free PlayBook tablet. Since I am very excited about the BlackBerry PlayBook, it’s Hardware, and it’s underlying QNX realtime operating system … Continue reading

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Creating Depth Images with the Kinect Sensor.

Microsoft’s Kinect Sensor is a nice peace of Hardware and considerably cheap for a camera that also provides a 640×480 depth image. Soon after it appeared on the market in November 2010, it was reverse engineered for users to interface … Continue reading

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Stealing your Facebook made easy

Eric Butler published an easy to use Firefox extension which captures session cookies from broadcast media such as public wifi networks. It allows anyone, to collect Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc session cookies and do anything with these accounts with just … Continue reading

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Intel Developer Forum 2010

This year’s Intel Developer Forum from September 13th to 15th was all about Data Center Applications, Cloud Computing, and Embedded Systems. I was happy about the opportunity to present a Poster about my Leonardo Robot Project in the academic track. … Continue reading

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iChem

iChem is a case study to bring aquatic chemistry calculations on the iPhone to the classroom. The computational nature of aquatic chemistry lends itself well to the iPhone platform and by providing students with a simple means of performing laborious … Continue reading

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WiiDrive

The Wii Remote got plenty of attention among Roboticists to improve Human-Robot-Interfaces and to lower anxiety for complex machines. Therefore I implemented WiiDrive for the Leonardo Robot Project. WiiDrive is a Wii Mote Control application to enable anybody to move … Continue reading

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server Tour, San Jose

The official product link of Mac OS X Server: http://www.apple.com/server/ My favourite presentation during this event was “Sal on Automation” with system wide services. His website contains very valuable resources on automation Tasks with Mac OS X. Check out: http://www.macosxautomation.com … Continue reading

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3rd place at Intel Code Breaker Challenge

Today, I was very happy to receive the 3rd prize for the Intel Code Breaker Challenge at IDF 2009. Thanks Intel, it was fun!

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New York City

A small selection of my recent black and white New York pictures:

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San Francisco

A small selection of my recent San Francisco black and white pictures:

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