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It is with great pleasure and anticipation that I will travel back in Stockholm between the 14th and 17th December for my Diplomutdelning - graduation from KTH: joyful and undoubtedly glistering moments ahead at Stadshuset, even though it still remains to be seen how penguin-like I do look in the mandatory tails coat!
Anyone på stan at that time feeling to catch up? Drop me a line!
Just back from Stockholm. Thanks everyone for the nice time there back again. As talked about in the previous post, here is my Master of Science Thesis report on Strategic Outlooks for European High Definition and IP TV. Enjoy!
I know you may have been wondering where I was hiding or what was behind the (very unstringent) lack of update on this blog in those last few weeks. Well, I was quite a bit busy finishing up my Master's thesis I began back in January when starting my end-of-study internship at Sony in Paris.
After those six wonderful months of discovering, investigating, getting in touch with and living (breathing?) in the European media sector, I 'm delighted to travel up to Stockholm to present and defend my work next week, on Monday June 13th at 13:00 in Kista (have a look at the official announcement posted at KTH).
What will be the topic-of-the-day, might you ask? Quite simply, I have been looking at the structural trends and disruptive innovations that are today appearing in the TV world in Europe - mainly High Definition TV (HD TV) and Internet-based TV (IP TV). What are they influence in the European "big picture" digital TV ecosystem? Can evolution patterns and emerging business models be sketched out of the profound and quicker-than-expected digital switchover we are experiencing today in Europe?
The event is public, so you are more than welcome to attend if you happen to be around (maybe lingering a couple more days in Scandinavia after the Reboot7 conference?). Oh, and expect the report and the presentation slides sometimes soon on this blog. Stay tuned!
As reported on KTH's website (sorry, only in Swedish), the Center for Parallel Computers (PDC - Parallel Data Center), already known for its already quite powerful previous clusters and its VR-Cube (a cube-shaped virtual reality environment for simulation, visualization... oh and playing Doom after work :-D), is going to equip itself with a cluster which will take the 24th place of the TOP500 - i.e. the top 500 fastest computer on earth (as the list is updated twice yearly, it does not appear on the June 2004 update - but soon!).
The cluster will be built by Dell, and will boast a processing power of 6 Teraflops, thereby becoming the largest computer installation in Sweden - 4th time faster than the HP2CN at Umeå University. Built around 444 computers, it will cost 13MSEK (~1.4M€) and start operation in early 2005.
Oh, and of course the cluster will be connected to KTHNOC, the central Point of Presence of SUNET (Swedish academic network) and NORDUnet (Nordic Academic Network), and a part of GÉANT, the pan-European academic and research network. Which itself means a widely available resource for international advanced research.
Heja KTH!
Ericsson is running an article in Mobility World about Charon, a great project run by several of my fellow teammates at Excitera, the Entrepreneurship Association at KTH. It is "an application competition [...], in which students develop applications running on Ericsson's Network Resource Gateway (NRG)".
Being entrepreneurial is certainly not the first and foremost thing one is taught at University. However, when one looks at the figures from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the top entrepreneurial countries often tend to be the most dynamic flexible ones: countries like Korea, Thailand, India (and of course the USA) all benefit from having a total entrepreneurial activity 2.5 to 3.5 times higher than that of Sweden (and it is even worse in France). That is why I deeply believe in outreaching initiatives like Excitera to bring together the academia with the Industrial reality and above all inspire thinking outside the box from one's undergraduate days onward.
Välkommen till verkligheten.
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