Aug 06 2009
KiWi Interns in the News
As you might have heard, the KiWi group in Salzburg is participating in a programme called “Generation Innovation” where we take students from technical schools over their summer vacation as interns so that they get to know what research is and what we do. For KiWi, we had 3 interns, and I would say it was a huge success: not only where they astonishingly good in programming and development, they also had very good ideas that they could contribute to the project. Their first job was to look over the KiWi user interface and collect all things they considered being bad and make suggestions on how to improve them. After that, we basically gave them the choice to do anything they want on top of the KiWi platform. As a result, we now have two interns working on Flash applications (one on graph visualisation for RDF, and one on displaying clusters in TagIT) and one intern working on a iPhone application – completely unexpected.
Our work with the students also resulted in a news article and video published by the local newspaper, Salzburger Nachrichten. You can see the video below if you click on “more” (starts automatically):
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