Stéphane Magnenat

About me

I am a computer scientist doing research (PhD student) in mobile robotics. I love the complexity of the universe, the knowledge we have acquired and structured as a specie. The process of transforming raw data into meaningful informations and creating representations to better act on the world fascinates me. I have high interest in Arts and Artificial Intelligence.

I enjoy a lot using and programming Free Software (logiciels libres). I think that information should be free, that our technologies will reveal their true powers once people stop trying to "protect" and reduce access to valuable informations, such as computer programs source code, encyclopaedias, teaching material, artistic creations,... For those reasons, I'm very interested in wikipedia (fr) and its sister projects.

I like Humans, Science, Engineering, Classical Music (and others too), Science Fiction, History, Philosophy, and many other things too...
I practise singing and learn to write music and to play game of Go. I have neither TV nor car; I like candles and other devices that express fascinating physical properties.

I love learning. The more you understand of the universe's structure, the more beautiful it looks like.

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