Category Archives: People

Workshop proposal at LIFT

I just finished a workshop proposal for the LIFT conference in Geneva next February. It’s about lots of things. The “Internet of Things” to be more accurate.
A short summary of my workshop proposal, which is entitled “Upgrade your company - Industrial opportunities for the Internet of Things”:

Technologies that will form the future IoT will have […]

The comeback

I finally decided that I should spend more time blogging, for several reasons (10 of them actually) I should write down here:
1) to keep me motivated to work and find cool topics to write about (I say that all the time, but this time is true)
2) to improve my written skills (yeah!! I really should)
3) […]

ARAKI - TASCHEN’s 25th anniversary - Special edition!

Yesterday, I just got crazy and went ahead and bought the new book (almost 5 kg!) of Nobuyoshi Araki (荒木 経惟). A single word is needed: fantastic. This guy is maybe one of the most famous japanese photographer alive, and certainly my favourite. He published over 250 books, but this special edition is one of […]

New life ahead

I started my “new life” two weeks ago. Not new, but kind of different from what I used to do before. I am starting my PhD at ETH Zurich with Prof. Friedemann Mattern, at the Institute for Pervasive Computing. In the meanwhile, my project (SOCRADES) will be done while working at SAP Research in Zurich. […]

good food

or should I say awesome food! Yesterday I went to Osaka, found a tiny, yet awesome, restaurant called “Shanghai Bar” (上海), because I wanted to try the local speciality called “supon” (スポン). It’s like a complete lunch made out of a complete turtle. It was sooooo goood! First you start with a shot of raw […]

Sakura!

It’s spring in Japan, and the Sakura frenzy is slowly starting all over the country. I saw the first flowers in the park of my company. just too cool.

Yeah, I haven’t blogged in a while. So what? let’s just say I was busy…Also, I just turned 25, and I’ll be soon back home in Switzerland, […]