Dear all, here is the introduction of the FZI team:
FZI Research Center for Information Technologies is a technology-transfer center at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (formerly University of Karlsruhe) and has more than 150 researchers from computer science, electrical engineering, economics, mechanical engineering, and - more recently - also psychology and social sciences. FZI consists of four research division; the AAL initiative is a joint activity of two of those divisions: IPE (Information Process Engineering) and ESS (Embedded Systems & Sensors Engineering). IPE's main research focus in AAL is on middleware, ontology-based technologies (particularly lightweight approaches), complex event processing, and service engineering and process efficiency in social care. ESS is more concentrated on innovative physiological sensors and sensor data processing. As part of a strategic initiative, FZI has built an AAL living lab for its further research activities. FZI has further initiated an open source AAL middleware that was the result of the SOPRANO integrated project and is now involved in universAAL. We further work on projects like AMICA (disease management for COPD patients) and myUI (adaptive user interfaces for users with disabilities). The AAL-related team (see http://aal.fzi.de - currently only in German) consists of more than 10 researchers. Some examples: Christophe Kunze is division manager for the ESS team and main coordinator of the living lab. Peter Wolf is a researcher in the IPE division; he has been working in the SOPRANO project, is the lead developer and co-initiator of the openAAL middleware, and is now working in universAAL. Asarnusch Rashid is coordinating the eHealth and AAL team within IPE. He has been working on several national projects, e.g., StrokeAngel, a mobile solution for improving emergency treatment of stroke patients. Andreas Schmidt is department manager within IPE and co-initiator of the openAAL infrastructure. He has worked in many European projects, including several projects in the eInclusion area (SOPRANO, universAAL, myUI). His interests are information integration, user context management as well as technology-enhanced learning. Best regards, Andreas -- Andreas Schmidt Department Manager Information Process Engineering Telefon: +49-721-9654-732 Fax: +49-721-9654-733 E-Mail: andreas.schm...@fzi.de http://andreas.schmidt.name Scientific Coordinator MATURE IP - http://mature-ip.eu http://aal.fzi.de, http://www.soprano-ip.org, http://www.openaal.org FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe / Research Center for Information Technologies Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14 76131 Karlsruhe GERMANY Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts, Az: 14-0563.1, RP Karlsruhe Vorstand: Rudi Studer, Rüdiger Dillmann, Michael Flor, Wolffried Stucky Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: MDgt Günther Leßnerkraus -----Original Message----- From: supporters-boun...@aaloa.org [mailto:supporters-boun...@aaloa.org] On Behalf Of Joe Gorman Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:32 PM To: Francesco Furfari; supporters@aaloa.org Subject: Re: [aaloa supporters] Let's make introductions - SINTEF Dear all, I will just write a few words to introduce the SINTEF team. SINTEF is an independent research institute based in Trondheim, Norway with about 2000 employees in a wide variety of technical fields. One of these is Health Care Informatics, and it is our specialist group in this field that represents SINTEF's interests in AALOA. The group is led by Marius Mikalsen, who has worked in this field for about 8 years, including work in a variety of EU projects in the area. He was coordinator of the highly successful MPOWER EU project, which developed middleware solutions to faciliate the development of solutions for people suffering from dementia. Ståle Walderhaug has been active in the field for about 10 years. He is currently combining his project job in SINTEF with student life, working towards a PhD at the University of Tromsø on model-driven development of interoperable health information systems. He was technical manager in the MPOWER project. Erlend Stav has special interests in software architectures, component software and assistive technologies for elderly and disabled users. He has worked extensively in EU projects over a a period of about 15 years. Anders Kofod-Peterson joined the group about 2 years ago, and brings expertise in practical application of Artificial Intelligence approaches. He previously worked at NTNTU, the local University here in Trondheim. Babak Farshchian also joined the group about 2 years ago, having previously worked with the research division of Telenor. He worked extensively on EU projects, and was WP leader in the DIADALOS EU project, a large IP in the area of service provision using heterogeneous mobile networks. Our current main activity in AAL is as leader of the universAAL project (www.universaal.org), an EU project aiming to facilitate the development of AAL services. The project will consolidate results from other earlier and on-going AAL projects, and will produce a reference architecture for AAL. It is also one of the project objectives to establish an AAL community, so it should no surprise that universAAL has played a key role in the establishment of AALOA. My role (Joe Gorman) in all of this is as project coordinator of universAAL . I do not have a specific AAL background, but have worked in IT for 30 years, in SINTEF, in Universities, in industry and as a Project Officer in the European Commission. My interests include software engineering, architectures, mobile systems and project management. Best regards, Joe Gorman Tlf +47 73 59 70 85 On 19/07/2010 16:24 , "Francesco Furfari" <francesco.furf...@isti.cnr.it> wrote: Dear all, I invite all of you to introduce yourselves, so we can know who we are :). I will start by introducing people from CNR Stefano Chessa, Stefano Lenzi and me (Francesco Furfari) are the CNR people who started to work on AAL thanks to the PERSONA project. CNR had a small role in PERSONA and our contribution were mainly on the integration of ZigBee technology on OSGi platform and the core middleware of the PERSONA platform. Stefano Chessa is associated with the Wireless Network Laboratory from University of Pisa where he teaches Wireless Sensor Networks, helped sometimes by the lab's people. Stefano Lenzi and me are the people who have some practical experience with the open source development, in particular with the the Apache Software community: I used such experience to push all of you in this adventure. Francesco Potortì is one more senior researcher at the lab who has experience with the Open Source world, in particular with the Italian Associazione Software Libero. He joined this year the universAAL project and he is new to AAL, but he was awarded during the second plenary meeting of universAAL for his strong contribution to the project's kick off. Without his help my work as Exploitation Manager and WP leader would be very hard. Paolo Barsocchi, Alberto Gotta, and Gabriele Oligeri have recently obtained their PhD. As you may guess they love formulas and write papers, they are approaching this activity with some apprehension, but I bet they will be enthusiastic to work on the organization of EvAAL contest. Giovanni Lombardi is the technician who joined our group few months ago, and I think he is still deciding whether it was a good move for him ... soon a lot of extra work for setting up AALOA infrastructures ;-) Finally Erina Ferro is our boss. We have to thank Erina for many things, but in particular because she helped to convince the head of our institute to sustain AALOA. If the community around AALOA will grow in the next years and will promote an open standards policy we will have the support of our institute over time. That's all from the CNR, it is the first time we provide such "service" to a community so I hope you will have some understanding of any possible inefficiency form our side. regards francesco _______________________________________________ Supporters mailing list Supporters@aaloa.org http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/supporters _______________________________________________ Supporters mailing list Supporters@aaloa.org http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/supporters _______________________________________________ Supporters mailing list Supporters@aaloa.org http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/supporters
