Stefan Hafeneger

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.

We recently uploaded the first public beta of our multi-touch framework SDK for Mac OS X. If you like you can download it and try it out. We bundled the SDK with some sample projects so you can start right away, after you have read the release notes of course. Please note that the iPhone application is still not available in the App Store, so we still need the unique device id of your iPhone or iPod touch to compile the application for your device.

We started the beta program of our Cocoa multi-touch framework yesterday. We are currently improving the FTIR/DI module that will be available soon for all beta program participants. And since the end of last week we are already using our new multi-touch table.

We have made a new video showing how to develop multi-touch applications for Mac OS X using our Cocoa framework.

You should definitely check this video out if you want to develop multi-touch apps with our framework.

We are now accepting application for a private beta program of our Cocoa multi-touch framework. If you would like to participate have a look at the official website concerning the application process.