Nov 08 2009
KiWi/TagIT at Lange Nacht der Forschung 2009
Yesterday night from 16:41 to 24:00 we had the big event we prepared for in the last weeks and even months: the “Lange Nacht der Forschung” (“Researchers Night Austria”), an Austria-wide event where research institutions try to bring science and research closer to the public. Of course, KiWi was present at this event, as foundation of the TagIT system we are developing together with the local newspaper, Salzburger Nachrichten. The political highlight from a KiWi perspective was of course the presentation of the system I gave to the deputy prime minister of the State of Salzburg, Landeshauptmann Stv. Dr. Wilfried Haslauer:
Dr. Haslauer showed a high interest in TagIT and was very impressed by what we are doing, which in itself is an important appreciation of our work.
At least as important as the “political” part was the “public” part, where the KiWi Team in Salzburg (particularly Thomas and Rolf) gave numerous presentations to interested people from all over the state and neighouring regions and answered many questions, some of which were of quite high technical depth. At Salzburg Research, we counted around 700 visitors at the end of the event. I believe that this kind of experience is very important to get feedback about the things we are doing from people that are outside our own community and thus not part of a certain “group think”. Overall, a huge amount of work for the preparation, but also a huge success for us! Here you have a picture of the Salzburg Research team after the event (at around 00:15):
A big thanks to Thomas, Rolf, and Steffi for preparing the KiWi demonstrations and Lego Mindstorms station, to the rest of the KiWi team for hanging out and helping answering questions, to the rest of my nice colleagues for the team spirit that we demonstrated at this event not only at the TagIT station, and particularly to Julia who is the best organizer in the world.:-)
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