User:ScienceGuard



I am the ScienceGuard, German national who lives in Mougins, France. I like writing articles around science and technology, my comfort zones are in the cross section of automation, medical devices and Cloud computing. I hold a PhD in Cloud Computing and did 10+ peer-reviewed publications on that matter. Also I filed two patents on Cloud controlled medical devices and IoT sensors in Europe and the USA. In my private life I love Jazz music and play the piano and double bass (when I find some time).

Jazz and World Music
I am intrigued by those musicians who are slowly and almost invisibly revolutionizing music from the grass-roots. Who are creating fusions of different styles and ethnic music styles. My first focus is on a network of notable musicians from Germany and France, cooperating with Indian musicians, Italian and South African artists, Arab and Persian jazz musician as well as Russians. As musical epicenter I chose Patrick Bebelaar and his musical ecosystem, which involves artists like Michel Godard, Vikash Maharaj, Darius Brubeck or bestseller author Joachim-Ernst Berendt. Some of them are already listed in the English Wikipedia. I also contribute to articles about new "rising-star" Jazz Bands like GoGo Penguins. So my goal is is to shed light on this Web of creativity. My attempt is to do this in a sober, well-substantiated approach as I did my scientific papers in engineering. I worked on a couple of other pages by actors and musicians, which were either not properly crafted or simply lacking valid references, e.g. Hans Albers.

Innovators and Opinion-Leaders
Economy is undergoing rapid changes. One of the reasons is Information Technology and in particular Cloud Computing, that is changing many aspects of business and private life (when have you last entered a record store or book shop???). It is relatively easy to document the technology that drives the change. What I want to look at are the processes as they impact in industry and the people and companies behind these changes. The opinion-leaders and enablers of change. For the companies and people it is more difficult to justify their notability as often, the peer-reviewed journal papers are rather talking about the technology than about their implementation and the people behind. I try to dig deep to create a mix of newspaper articles, online publications from notable sources and of course peer-reviewed publications. Here I started with people and companies around Whitfield Diffie and Ivan Damgård as I followed their work and publication during my PhD time. However there are scientists who had notable impact on science and industrially implemented technology alike, but who are not yet mentioned in Wikipedia. Examples are the cryptographers Peter Landrock or Torben Pedersen.