From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 09:00:40 MDT
Anders:
>and they sometimes run the dreamy filler about Starlab. It seems
>rather surreal these days, and show how quickly the future becomes
>obsolete.
Something emerged from the ashes of the old Starlab though. In the
winter of 2001 they were starting another affiliate in Barcelona.
The main person in charge at that affiliate, Guilio Ruffini, when he
was reporting to Walter De Brower (the old Starlab pres), has
continued, but assumed ownership (?). The company offerings
are a bit different (*) from the old Starlab.
Still looks a little bit dreamy though.
http://starlab-bcn.com/
Starlab Barcelona
Starlab Vision: Living Science
Starlab is private R&D SME. Founded on July 4th 2000 as a
subsidiary of a larger company with the support of the Catalan and
Spanish Governments and the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of
Barcelona, Starlab has been operating as an independent entity
since 2001. The company, located in the historic Barcelona
Fabra Observatory, employs physicists, mathematicians, engineers and
a strong business team aiming to create and bring new
technologies to the market. It is organized in three tightly
connected Departments : Starlab Research, Starlab Technology
Transfer and Starlab Systems & Instruments.
The vision of the company is inspired in the
computational capabilities of the brain, which, in real-time,
processes information from a huge array of sensors and
simplifies the apparent complexity of the outside world -
Information Theory will no doubt become a fundamental
cornerstone in our physical understanding of the Universe.
Starlab seeks to develop applications of information theory and
technology, whether it is Earth Observation, Brain Observation or
else.
Future progress will be based on the development of new sensors to
pick up information from our environment and models to simplify
the enormous flux of bits and apparent flow of Complexity. At
Starlab, the development of sensors and algorithms to monitor and
understand our planet and our brains is based on powerful
synergies, both technical and scientific, and aims to provide
new means to bring Science to the Citizen. For this reason,
the company seeks to maintain close contacts with
research centers and potentially interested end users for all
new applications.
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(*)
in Barcelona: the research there was going to be a robotic
planet-finder telescope. They had some cool ideas (as always from
Walter De Brower), but I wasn't sure it was feasible. They asked me
to interview to manage that project, but some silly mistakes
happened on their side and flying to two locations (Belgium and
Spain) for the interviews was beginning to look like a large
headache, and I asked them to put my interview on the back burner
for a couple of months (At that time, I was scheduled to submit my
thesis in about eight weeks). The company folded two months later.
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