[aaloa supporters] Let's make introductions

[Mohammad-Reza Tazari]

Francesco Furfari wrote on 19-Jul-10 16:24:
> Dear all,
>
> I invite all of you to introduce yourselves, so we can know who we are

People from Fraunhofer IGD, department "Interactive Multimedia Appliances":

Since 2003, our department is bearing the above name which is a 
reflection of our research activities in the area of Ambient 
Intelligence. In fact, our department was a craft supporting Prof. 
Encarnacao (the former director of Fraunhofer IGD) when he, as a member 
of ISTAG, was contributing to the report on AmI 
(ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/ist/docs/istag-ist2003_consolidated_report.pdf). 
The department has also been representing Fraunhofer IGD in ARTEMIS 
(www.artemis.eu) since 2005, especially in the working group "seamless 
connectivity". In Germany, the department is cooperating with 
www.aal-deutschland.de in its working group "Interoperability" since 2008.

The people from the department that are member of this list are Reiner 
Wichert and me (Saied Tazari). Michael Hellenschmidt, who is also on 
this list, was until end of the last May one of the senior members of 
the department, but he has changed now to SAP Research; nevertheless, I 
will also introduce him below. Some other people from our department are 
willing to join AALOA (or even this list) but we decided to keep most of 
them in the background in order to avoid too many names from one org.

Reiner Wichert is our department head with most of the above-mentioned 
involvements in the different boards. He is also the speaker of the 
"Fraunhofer AAL Allianz" established end of 2007 and since then also 
always one of the chairs of the different committees of the annual AmI 
conference. Together with Michael & me he is offering lectures on AmI at 
"Technische Universität Darmstadt".

Michael Hellenschmidt has been involved in UbiComp- & AmI-related 
research projects since 1999, in the era before the PhD more in the 
areas related to middleware for distributed systems of smart 
environments. Later, he was more interested in user interaction in such 
environments. With ARTEMIS, Michael worked on the standardization agenda 
and with www.aal-deutschland.de on the interoperability topic.

I came in touch with AmI & AAL through context management and service 
brokerage. Until 2006, I was doing such research under the umbrella of 
mobile computing. In the beginning of 2007, I joined my current 
department at IGD and was then directly connected to AAL. I was the main 
contributor to the middleware of PERSONA (www.aal-persona.org) and have 
had a major influence on the design and implementation of the whole 
platform of PERSONA. I think, this is why I am in universAAL now 
responsible for the implementation of its platform as the related work 
package leader.

You can find a picture of us under 
http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/igd-a1/staff/.

Sincerely,

-- Saied
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Mohammad-Reza (Saied) Tazari
Stellvertretender Abteilungsleiter :=  Deputy head of department
Interactive Multimedia Appliances  ||  http://www.igd.fhg.de/igd-a1

Fraunhofer IGD: Institut für
Graphische Datenverarbeitung       :=  Computer Graphics
Fraunhoferstr. 5
64283 Darmstadt, Germany           ||  http://www.igd.fhg.de/

Tel: +49 - 6151 - 155 228          ||  Skype: saied.tazari
Fax: +49 - 6151 - 155 480

saied.tazari at igd.fraunhofer.de     ||  prvt: saied.tazari at gmail.com
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