Stefan Hafeneger

I haven’t blogged anything about my internship at Apple after I started it in June. There were several reasons for that including secrecy, twitter and time.

I gave a talk about my experience at Apple in September at the Aachen CocoaHeads meeting and my friends and family know of course everything I did during the summer (except the work I did there), so there is no reason to write about this here. If you still want to know some details (because you want to do an internship at Apple for example) drop me a line. Well, the only thing I will mention here is, that I did a pretty good job, had a lot of fun and met great people.

Due to the first point, Apple offered me to come back this summer and a part time job as well. I accepted both offers of course and am now working for Apple again (from Germany) and will be back in Cupertino in June.

I had a really pleasant flight in the business class yesterday. The food was really god (serves on plates) and I had much more space than I needed.

I met Argiris finally at the airport in San Francisco and then we took a cab to Cupertino where we met Bridger who was already waiting for us. David will arrive on Saturday.

The appartment is really nice and the location awesome.

We went out to have some drinks and nachos and then went to bed at about 1AM.

Argiris and I woke up this morning at about 6:30AM because we couldn’t sleep anymore … jetlag.

We are now going to explore the neighborhood and grab some breakfast.

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.