Sebastian Büttrich

Research Lab Manager, at the Pervasive Interaction Technology Laboratory - the pIT Lab

What is the role of the Research Lab Manager?

A bit about who i am and what i have done before ITU and partly still do

location: 2C04 (IT department) / 3A54 - also known as LAB 5 or pITLab

mail: sebastian_at_itu.dk

phone: 7218 5126

GnuPG: GnuPG public key

Things happening / worked on.

• Small project: IRLeds
• Working on plans for SolarTangibles on, around and inside the ITU building.
• Spending three (holi)days at Tanzania NREN http://www.ternet.or.tz/ , teaching network fundamentals, security and system administration, with NSRC http://nsrc.org
• Curriculum for Arduino Lab - sensors for power and water flows

• Republishing some SecurityAdviceForServerOwners
• Teaching in course Pervasive Computing - NFC and security - https://blog.itu.dk/SPCT-F2012/files/2012/03/nfc_tech_talk_spvc2012.pdf
• Added overview of what i have been involved in, 2010-2012 in terms of Main.Global_Teaching
• Added project ideas for 2012 Main.Project_ideas
• Teaching in course Pervasive Computing - Wireless Sensor Networks - https://blog.itu.dk/SPCT-E2011/files/2011/11/introduction_to_wsn_-_lecture_slides_spvc2011_s.pdf
• How to schedule services on a windows server Main.Windows_service_restarts_scheduling
• How to shred hard disks in accordance with the danish Datatilsynets recommendations: Main.Data_shredding_DOD_style
• Skype performance improvement through SOCKS proxy'ing: Main.SkypeSOCKSproxy
• Opened account for testing AmazonVPC - in order to evaluate this for use in research / courses - services/prices are here: Amazon VPC Info
• An interesting chat with slicehost support, about security and responsibility on their slices. Also a great example of what modern IT support can look like.
• It s a good parctice to limit server access to ssh key based access - here is how to make a ssh public key on Windows / Mac / Linux
• Happy to hear pITLabs Arduino & sensors proved useful at the Nordic Game Jam :) - http://globalgamejam.org/2011/flappa-long
• GSM/GPRS from Arduino/Libelium
• Building couchdb, migrating pitlab server into virtual environment. drupal, subversion, couch, ... ahhh couch.
• new year starts.

• Collecting input from research - Requirements for Wireless Networks for Research
• Giving talk on Global Inspiration

Slides are here (PDF, 6.4 MB): Attach:Main/Global_inspiration_-_slides_final.pdf

• Eduroam system for all non-Windows/MAC users: Eduroam how-to for Ubuntu / GNU/linux ... Eduroam how-to Android
• Working end-to-end sensor talk from Lab to ICTP Triest, low cost IPv6 as warm up for real IPv6 project, solar autonomy, ...

• Continuing work on IPv6 at pITLab, now combining with Wireless Sensor Networks
• Beginning preparation of IPv6 project, to be started officially autumn 2010. Doing groundwork and docs for this.[20100722]
• Sending out the first in a series of what i call "inspiration bullets", to test interest in relevant global projects that i have been approached with.
• Continuing android work, this time on HTC Legend. Works just as well as the Hero. [20100702]
• Spontaneous android rooting session at pITLab: the group successfully rooted HTC Magic and Hero. Using Goldcard/cynagen img way.

"Howto" to be posted.

• Spectrum analyzers arrived ... as expected, it s fairly busy in the 2.4 GHz band .. no wonder with dozens of APs, RFID, Bluetooth BLIP, all at work here.

• GIRI day: http://global-interaction.org/en/Outreach/~/media/9117CADC450E48C2AB9EF854CA695778.ashx

• Ordering a lot of things for the lab: Arduinos, Androids, Anotos, ...
• Not rocket science, but nice to have: multiple skype instances (i.e. with different user, video, audio) from one pc. preparing this for the GIRI day, 4 June.
• Minister mentions a "cloud lab" at the ITU: "I samarbejde med IT Universitetet har Videnskabsministeriet nemlig allerede igangsat et slags cloud-laboratorium, hvor man nu er i gang med at undersøge barriererne for en effektiv udnyttelse af cloud computing i det offentlige."

http://idg.jobworld.dk/artikel/ministeren-der-skal-mere-knald-paa-digitaliseringen

• Written some thoughts on so-called cloud computing, in my non-ITU role: http://wire.less.dk/?p=88
• Brief market overview Android Phones
• User interviews, evaluation, plans for infrastructure for the BLIP system - 201005
• The frames for the Multitouch cells are now in place.

• Taking over responsibility for servers, services ... 20100415
• Started in my new role here at ITU on 6 April, 2010. The first week(s) is/are spent listening and learning. I intend to maintain that quality, even later in time ... 20100409