A short story
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita...
Dante Alighieri, "Divina Commedia"
… I met Lefkos in his first steps,
TOURBOT, who wished to be real, like Pinocchio, because he thought in this way he could be able to explore the world. At that time, me too, I wanted to discover another, a new world and I decided to help him.
Who of us was dreaming the real world and who was dreaming a virtual one it didn’t matter!
So, I moved to Crete where is located the headquarters of
FORTH research center and there we worked hard on the
WebFair project.
With the support of the engineers, colleagues of the
CVRL Team, Lefkos became a real robotic avatar and I became a real programmer.
Yes, I did it to help Lefkos to achieve his dream.
It has been a long journey that helped both of us to develop and realize ourselves.
Somehow, we can say that we did it together, he to dominate the real and virtual worlds and I the OOP languages and a lot of the web world, in order to allow him
to live and move in the real world and simultaneously to appear in a virtual one.
Since then I have been involved in a lot of new European projects, without the support of Lefkos, who in that time had already retired. I participated directly in the research development with my programming,
Java,
VR and
3D graphics, skills, or just taking care of their public image in print and screen format with my web programming,
HTML,
Javascript,
css,
php,
MySQL and graphic,
Adobe Photoshop,
Illustrator,
After Effects, knowledge.
Some of them:
Lifeplus,
Recover,
Gnosys,
Vector.
After sometime and some more research projects, some conferences and some teaching experience but always suffering the lack of Lefkos, I resigned from FORTH.
And now I’m trying to go further autonomously and as always I'm searching new challenges to face.
Some European projects like the
Agromentoris project, a
FRACTALS project using and developing the
FIWARE cloud based applications and of which
a short and premature demo is still on line.
Some web pages for privat customers using
CMS softwares like
WordPress or
Contao, or creating web apps with
JavaScript Frameworks like
React.