Author Archives: kenn-blog

Setting up VPN with Surface and Home Server 2011

Happy new year 2013! It seems I am posting in ever-increasing intervals, so the next blog post should be coming in January 2017 if the pattern continues. Anyway, I received my Surface just before Christmas, and it’s an amazing device. … Continue reading

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Microsoft fixing your PC…

Now I’m working for this company for about three years and I still discover new things I wish I would have found a long time ago. If you’re the typical PC end user that is frustrated by your PCs behavior … Continue reading

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HeadSLAM buzz

We received a bit of publicity around our HeadSLAM presentation at Pervasive and ISWC. There’s a good short article on the new scientist website here. Collin Barras, the author of that article had a few extra questions on our work … Continue reading

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ISWC 2008

I am currently at ISWC. The conference is a bit smaller this year, but the quality of the papers is very good. After two excelent keynotes by Raj Reddy and Marcel Just, the conference program started yesterday morning Burcu Cinaz … Continue reading

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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