I did already mention this on twitter. I am going to spend the next ten months in Cupertino and Washington DC doing internships at Apple and Microsoft Research.
On Friday I will take the plane and fly business class from Cologne to San Francisco (stopover at Munich). On June 1 I will then start my internship at the QuickTime Player team on Apple’s main campus in Cupertino. The seconds week I may spend at WWDC to get up to date on the latest Snow Leopard features. The internship will take three months and I will reside at a nice appartment two blocks from the main campus, sharing rooms with three fellow interns from the US and Greece.
After the internship Bastian is coming over for a three week vacation on the west coast, including stays at San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Diego.
After the vacation I will fly home for about two and a half weeks to get my second visa from the US consulate.
On October 5 I will then start my research internship at Microsoft Research in Washington DC. At the Microsoft Medial Media Lab I will do research on data visualization via touch. I am going to explore new methods for medical data visualization using Microsoft Surface and other multi-touch hardware. The internship will take six months.
Due to non-disclosure agreements I had to sign, I won’t blog or twitter about secret stuff I am going to do. But I will write about my daily life and experiences during that time and I will add some blog posts about how I did get both intern contracts.