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30 years ago I was making an international phone call to the UK to try to order my first computer. As a freshman at IST I could not afford the memory extension, but I soon found out that amazing things could be done with just 1KB of memory. For example, one could save 3 bytes… Continue reading Sinclair ZX81 turns 30

Os diplomados pelo IST têm uma empregabilidade invejável: 63% acabam o seu curso já com contrato de trabalho assinado.

O IST está a oferecer aos seus alunos a possibilidade de frequentar seminários de preparação para o recrumanto. Este programa, denominado IST Career Workshops, envolve uma entidade formadora externa com vasta experiência nos processos e técnicas de selecção e recrutamento e será constituído por um número alargado de sessões de formação com 12 alunos. Para… Continue reading IST Career Workshops

See the full gallery on posterous I have just visited the warehouse were the Aalto Venture Garage is currently locate. The Garage is a initiative of a group of students and entrepreneurs from Aalto Entrepreneurship Society and is funded by Aalto University (around 500K€/year). It works as a open space for students and it helps early stage startups to… Continue reading Aalto Venture Garage

  This morning, here in Helsinki everybody was waiting for the first public address by the new Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, after the leaked oil rig memo. It turned out that the announcement was that Nokia will use Windows Mobile 7 as its primary smartphone platform. The stock market did not find it to be a… Continue reading Nokiasoft or Microkia – A good idea?

The Wroclaw University of Technology built the three robot heads and produced this video before shipping two of them to Heriot-Watt University (Edimburgh) and INESC-ID (Portugal). This work was conducted in the scope of the LIREC project (Living with Robots and Interactive Companions,  http://lirec.eu/).

The Santa Claus Detector – A children’s Christmas Stocking device useful for visually signaling the arrival of Santa Claus by illuminating an externally visible light source having a power source located within said device. I wonder why no one licensed this invention by Thomas Cane protected by US patent 5523741 issued on June 1996… 5523741_Santa_Claus_Detector.pdf… Continue reading Will you need US Patent 5523741 tonight?

Another interesting article in The Economist: the disposable academic – why doing a PhD is often a waist of time.Although the author is mostly right I think she misses the point that PhD students can also become entrepreneurs: they master a technology and, contrary to most academics, they have the incentives to take it to… Continue reading The disposable academic