Tuesday, July 28, 2009
* Morning Session:
José Alberto FONSECA, University of Aveiro
Title: Embedded Systems in Ambient Intelligence
* Afternoon Session:
Heikki PALOMÄKI, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
Title: Wireless Network Systems in Ambient Intelligence
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
* Morning Session:
Luc FRIANT, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
Title: Special topics in the area of embedded systems
1. FPGA architectures with the Altera Cyclone
* Afternoon Session:
Ludo CAMBRÉ, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
Title: Special topics in the area of embedded systems
2. Embedded servers with the TCP/IP stack from Microchip
Thursday, July 30, 2009
* Morning Session:
Klaus KISSIG, Kiel University of Applied Sciences
Title: Multi-core Programming
* Afternoon Session:
Kimmo SALMENJOKI, SeinäjokiUniversity of Applied Sciences
Yes I’m being very lazy and copy/pasting from the IPEAI website. I didn’t really have much to say about these, they were interesting, but none of them were really my field so I was finding it hard to grasp it very well.
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In the morning session on the 9th day (Monday) we had a lecturer from Vaasa in finland talking about service oriented applications and mobile intelligent devices.
In the afternoon, it was a lecture on semantic web and web services in ambient intelligence.
After the afternoon lecture, we went to visit a world war 2 submarine, which was very interesting, and a war memorial. In the submarine they had bunk directly UNDER the torpedoes.. I could never sleep there.
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The weekend was fairly uneventful. Saturday I missed the Hamburg trip to look for more PhD positions online and try to figure out how I’m going to proceed. According to the Estonian I asked I didn’t miss much anyway. Sunday I mainly read and watched anime and generally recovered from the previous week.
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In the morning of day 6 we had George Kornaros from the Technological Educational Institute of Crete
giving a talk on Special Topics in Embedded Systems, which I’m sad to say I missed most of due to being very sleepy.
In the afternoon, we had Paul Jarvis, from our own University (Glamorgan) who did a talk on the artificial intelligence used in Pacman, and used game-maker as a base piece of software to allow us to play with the AI ourselves.
The game maker software package, is not something I feel would ever be used in a real game development environment, it’s a hobbyist kit, plain and simple. So I was a little concerned that this may lead to the others feeling that our course is too easy.
However for the most part it simply generated interest. I think the hands on lecturing style is very different to what most people here are used too, and adding a practical aspect to the lecture kept the interest up very well. So on the whole, well done Paul!
With regards to my future, I’ve received an offer from Glamorgan to continue there taking on the teaching hours I would have been doing as part of my PhD for fairly low pay and wait in hope of a project opening up.
This is taking a chance, and I’m still a little unsure about it. Waiting to discuss it with Ian hopefully.
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