If you are interested in my thesis and like to read it printed on real paper, you can now get it at your local amazon store for only 5$/€/£…

I did it! I’m now officially Doctor technicae! Tuesday was my PhD defense. Interested in my thesis? Have a look at my thesis page or watch the short youtube video of the prototype system which I developed for the thesis. Here is a link to an article about the developed prototype system on ORF.at (in German).

With the help of a native Hungarian I’ve added subtitles to a 2007 TV ad of the Austrian Raiffeisen Bank. The 35 second ad shows how easy it was how to get a loan in 2007. Pretty insane!

The ad was picked up by the financial blog zerohedge.com and the Austrian newspapers Die Presse and Der Standard, where it appeared in print and on-line.

I’ve been heavily involved in working on the music recommender system (MOTS) used in the new Bang&Olufsen BeoSound 5 hi-fi system.
The story about the OFAI/CP involvement was printed in an Austrian Newspaper (Der Standard, print – online). It also appeared online in the news portal ORF Futurezone.

Mirage – An Automatic Playlist-Generator for the Banshee Media Player is now included in two major Linux Distributions: Ubuntu and Fedora. Thanks to the packagers and the brave Co-Maintainer Bertrand Lorentz! Mirage was part of my master-thesis. Visit the homepage for more information.

Mirage in action

I received the Best Student Paper Award at the MUM 2007 Conference in Oulu/Finland. The paper is called One-Touch Access to Music on Mobile Devices. It was an interesting and fun conference. If you are interested in the paper, have a look at the Publications.