IRIDA is a visualization protocol for Wireless Sensor Network research and prototyping. It has been developed at the TCS/Sensor Lab of the University of Geneva by Marios Karagiannis. With IRIDA you can visualize most aspects of WSN operation in real time for debugging or demoing purposes alike. The protocol is platform agnostic and modular.

Irida is the modern greek word for Iris. According to Wikipedia, the iris (plural: irides or irises) is a thin, circular structure in the eye, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupils and thus the amount of light reaching the retina. We chose this name to show that Irida will allow WSN users and researchers to see what is going on in the network.

My paper describing IRIDA in detail was accepted to be published during the 4th International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks which will take place in Hangzhou, China on May 18 2012.

I have also published a website which contains even more details about the protocol, including open sourced material that was used to develop and test it, which are described in the paper. You can find the website here.

(thanx to Ilias Sounas for the wonderful logo)

Here is the talk I gave in March 2011 in Zurich. I was invited by Microsoft and Prof.René Bauer during the Game Design course (http://gamedesign.zhdk.ch/de/content/willkommen)

The video is also available in 720p and 1080p and is in 2 parts below:

On 22 of February, Microsoft asked me to give a small talk about games development on the Windows Phone 7 platform, and more specifically about XNA development and my experience with the WP7 Marketplace. It was fun and quite a few people showed up, to listen and to be rewarded with pizza and beer in the end. The MonsterUp trailer video was also shown at the end of the talk:) After the Geneva talk last week I am in Zurich today, invited by Microsoft again, giving a similar talk about XNA game development to a bunch of Game Design students at the University of Zurich.

The slides for both talks were published in previous posts. (1)(2)

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