kpi - Stephan Karpischek - Internet Technologist

Engineering Internet Software and Services (since 1998)

Current Location: Zurich (updated 01 October 2008)

Currently working at ETH Zurich
Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC)
Chair of Information Management, Prof. Fleisch

Small and Medium Business Telephone Services - Use cases for an open source software framework.
My Diploma Thesis, at IEB, University of Arts (UdK), Berlin, thesis wiki and download.
Dialstation - international phone calls cheaper, telekommunisten project, development trac
Palabea - learn languages online, Ruby on Rails development.
Miss Information - fun with telephone routing.
Iraqiscope - Video platform.
Superbertram - Surveillance art project.
Jovoto - Empowering creative minds.
Mobile city information service with NFC. E-Business Project at IEB.
Mobile Sales Assistant - NFC for retailers.
Awarded 1st European NFC competition 2007 (presentation, pdf)
Mobile Prosumer - Mobile product information service with NFC.

S. Karpischek, S. Hamacher: Auswirkungen NFC-basierter mobiler Produktinformationssysteme auf den Entscheidungsprozess des Konsumenten. IEB term paper, 2007. (german pdf)
F. Resatsch, S. Karpischek, S. Hamacher, U. Sandner: NFC for retailers. MobileHCI 2007, Singapore, 2007. (pdf)
S. Karpischek, F. Resatsch, S. Hamacher: Mobile Prosumer - Empowering the Consumer. Business Plan 2007. (available on request)
F. Resatsch, S. Karpischek, D. Michelis: Mobile Prosumer, Near Field Interactions Workshop at NordiCHI 06, Oslo, 2006. (workshop)
S. Karpischek: The Mobile Prosumer - Product information at the Point of Sale. IEB term paper, 2006. (website, pdf)

Dialstation - the revolution is calling. Asterisk Tag, Berlin 2008. (youtube video)
Fun with NFC Mobile Phones, Chaos Communication Camp 2007, near Berlin. (ccc, slides)

dialstation - a telephone services toolkit (Ruby on Rails, AGPL)
jayc - just another youtube clone (Ruby on Rails + ffmpeg, AGPL)
btherald - a bluetooth herald. "who is here?" with discovering bluetooth devices. (wild mix, GPL)

copycan - buy digital content for the commons.
Community Trading System CTS, easy creation of local currencies. Project for Open University, UK.
solutions 4, Vienna: Event Database for commercial use.
MUTE Magazine, London: custom Drupal CMS extensions for Print on Demand.
esp, various projects between Berlin and London.
linuxhotel.de - Linux Kurse und Schulungen - Search Engine Optimizing. check for current rank
BBK Berlin - Mailinglist Administration.
buchhandlung777.at, Vienna: Online Bookshop.

For more information, please take a look at my Curriculum vitae (updated June 2008).

E-Mail kpi [at] kpi [dot] at
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Postal address, Vienna:
Stephan Karpischek
Domgasse 8, 1010 Wien, Austria
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