"Above all nations is humanity" --Goldwin Smith
"Science is rooted in conversations. The cooperation of different people may culminate in scientific results of the utmost importance." --Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations (Harper & Row, New York, 1971)
I am an occasional Wikipedian that has always been fascinated by the many ways to use technology to transfer knowledge. I personally see Wikipedia as a wonderful legacy for the future Internet generations, representing the brilliant encounter between technology, knowledge, freedom and humanity.
I assume that a good Wikipedian should be an artist (involved in bold and daring creative activities), an advocatus diaboli (critically reviewing his/her and others' works), and a janitor (doing his/her fair share of maintenance and cleanup tasks).
I am currently a visiting research scholar at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in Honolulu, HI. I have a M.Sc. and a Ph.D in computer science from the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland.
When I am not in front of a computer screen, I like to spend time with my wife and my two-years old son, read the masterpieces of the French medieval literature, study the Hawaiian folklore, listen to Frederic Chopin's nocturnes, or just play a tune on one of my occarinas.