Mobile Python

Jurgen Scheible is a designer, media artist and musician whoholds a degree in telecommunications from Karlsruhe, Germany. Aftergraduating, he worked for eight years at Nokia in Finland pursuingvarious positions such as programmer, product manager andcompetence transfer manager. Besides his occupation, he performedand produced music as well as media art under the pseudonym Lenin'sGodson.
In 2003, he left his engineering career to concentrate full-timeon his creative career, because he felt his heart was much more inhis artistic works that in engineering. In 2004, he became adoctoral student at the media Lab at the University of Artand Design, Helsinki, where he established the Mobile Hub, aprototype development environment for mobile client and serverapplications. it has a strong focus on artistic approaches andcreative design, and serves as a resource to art and designstudents who use mobile technology as part of their projects. Hisdoctoral research focuses on designing multimodal user interfacesfor creating and sharing interactive artistic experiences.
Since 2004, he has been evangelizing Python for S60 as one ofits pioneers. he is internationally active having given talks andtaught innovation workshops in both academic and professionalsettings on more than 40 occasions, in places such as StanfordUniversity, MIT, NTU Taiwan, Yahoo research Berkeley, TsinghuaUniversity Beijing, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks, in more than17 countries. His focus is on rapid mobile application prototypingusing creative approaches for innovation.
In 2006, he spent several months as a visiting scientist at MIT,Boston in the Computer Science and Artificial IntelligenceLaboratory (CSAIL). Jurgen was recognized as a Forum Nokia Championin 2006 and 2007 for his driving vision of building bridges betweenart, engineering and research. He was one of the winners of the ACMComputers in Entertainment Scholarship Award in 2006 and of theBest Arts Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 2005 conference.
The philosophy behind his works is to bring back the depth ofhuman feelings and emotional aspects to the digital world which, inhis opinion, were lost with the arrival of the fast-paced digitalproduction technology. By inspiring other with his works, he getsinspired himself. This leads him to many new ides for designing newkinds of interactive experiences for people, especially in the areof mobile phone application that fuse the real and the virtualworlds. He believes this era will change the way we live andcommunicate in the future and it will transform societies.Therefore it is important, in his opinion, to design for thesecoming applications.
Ville Tuulos is currently a researcher in the Departmentof Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. He has morethan 15 years' experience of creative hacking, including datavisualization, web research engines, and machine-learningalgorithms. He has been an enthusiastic Pythonista since 2000 andhe has been exploring and extending the limits of python for S60since 2005. He has used it to implement, among others, real-timeimage processing algorithms, various positioning techniques and anurban game for 200 players in New York City.