Author Archives: kenn-blog

Event update

Meanwhile, the third event I am co-organizing is about to close its submission, my workshop at the “Mensch und Computer” conference in Lübeck on September 8th, 2008.

Posted in Computer Science, Conferences, Wearable Computing | Leave a comment

Upcoming scientific events

There are a couple of scientific events coming up that I am involved in: CUIPAM08: This is a workshop I am co-organizing together with Prof. Michael Lawo from Uni Bremen. It’s about Context-awareness and User Interfaces for Professional Applications of … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Microsoft EMIC

Beginning October 1st 2007, I will be working at Microsoft EMIC in Aachen, Germany. I will be mainly working on embedded systems. I will continue to maintain CubeOS. H.

Posted in Research, Work | Leave a comment

SSRR and Rescue Camp 2007

I’m currently visiting the SSRR 2007 workshop. We had quite a time here in Rome. Together with Alexander Kleiner and Christian Dornhege, I was showing a demonstration of RFID SLAM-based cooperative pedestrian indoor localization. I collected quite some pedestrian data … Continue reading

Posted in Research, Wearable Computing | Leave a comment

Mensch und Computer 2007 in Weimar

At the moment, I’m attending Mensch und Computer 2007. The invited talk of this morning was very nice, altough it was given via Skype as the speaker, Adrian David Cheok fell ill and was not allowed to travel. The talk … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Gadgets, Research, Wearable Computing | Leave a comment

Arrested for library access

A while ago, on August 1st, scientist Andrej H. has been arrested. His subject is political science, his research topic is urbanization. According to his former Ph.D advisor, Andrej H. calls himself a marxist. The Public Attorney’s Office calls him … Continue reading

Posted in Politics, Research | 2 Comments

Next Train to Bremen Central

Posted in Fun | Leave a comment

How to install a SSL certificate on a GSM Phone

For some time now, I had a problem using the IMAP e-mail client with my own mailhost. When using unencrypted POP3 or IMAP4, everything was fine, but when I tried to use SSL to protect my password, the phone refused … Continue reading

Posted in Gadgets, Technology | 1 Comment

Ingrid Rügge’s Ph.D defense

This week, Ingrid Rügge defended her Ph.D entitled “Einsatzpotenziale, Nutzungsprobleme und  Lösungsansätze mobil tragbarer Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien”. Being a member of her Thesis Committee, I was very impressed with the broadness of her work and she gave one of the … Continue reading

Posted in Research, Wearable Computing | Leave a comment

Nanotechnology at the local grocery store

Posted in Fun, Technology | Leave a comment