About the Authors
Jürgen Scheible
Jürgen Scheible is a designer, media artist and musician who holds a degree in telecommunications from Karlsruhe, Germany. After graduating, he worked for eight years at Nokia in Finland pursuing various positions such as programmer, product manager and competence transfer manager. Besides his occupation, he performed and produced music as well as media art under the pseudonym Lenin's Godson.
In 2003, he left his engineering career to concentrate full-time on his creative career, because he felt his heart was much more in his artistic works than in engineering. In 2004, he became a doctoral student at the Media Lab at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, where he established the Mobile Hub, a prototype development environment for mobile client and server applications. It has a strong focus on artistic approaches and creative design, and serves as a resource to art and design students who use mobile technology as part of their projects. His doctoral research focuses on designing multimodal user interfaces for creating and sharing interactive artistic experiences.
Since 2004, he has been evangelizing Python for S60 as one of its pioneers. He is internationally active having given talks and taught innovation workshops in both academic and professional settings on more than 40 occasions, in places such as Stanford University, MIT, NTU Taiwan, Yahoo Research Berkeley, Tsinghua University Beijing, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks, in more than ...
