Michel Deriaz's Homepage

Public Bookmarks (PBM)

In order to access my bookmarks from any browser and from anywhere, I wrote a little Java program that builds an html file containing all my preferred links. This tool is available at MakePBM.java

Projects

WayFiS (2011) A guide for elderlies.
Trainutri (2011) A digital coach raise consciousness about self wellness, enabling the exchange of knowledge related to physical and nutritional healthy habits.
GeTag (2009-2010) The first deployment of FoxyTour, for Geneva city.
FoxyTour (2009-2010) A guide that adapts automatically to the users' preferences thanks to trust engines.
FoxyTag (2006-2011) A collaborative, free and legal system to signal speed cameras on mobile phones. Drivers post virtual tags on radars in order to inform other users. Our research interest in this project consists in studying the Trust and Security aspects in these virtual tags.
EDOS (2004-2005) Environment for the Distribution of Open Source software. This project aims to develop technologies and tools that will improve the production of Linux distributions.
A Social Semantical Infrastructure for Ambient Intelligence (2004-2005) Self-organized applications that run without any central control, and that communicate with each other using specifications expressed in formal languages.
Engineering Self-Organising Applications (2004) Self-organized applications that run without any central control.
ECash (2003) Implementation of the e-cash algorithm, allowing users to make anonymous electronic payments over the Internet.
Mindstorms Contest (2002) Lego Mindstorms RCX robot, programmed with the Java micro edition language, and which won the contest.
JRobot (2002) Friendly Java interface that interacts with a Mitsubishi RVM1 robot.

Masters, Bachelors and Licences

Marc Falcy (2012, Bachelor) Authentification d’utilisateurs sur une interface WEB.
Loïc Poisot (2012, Bachelor) Advanced API for FoxyTag.
Anja Bekkelien (2012, Master) Bluetooth Indoor Positioning.
Henri La (2011, Bachelor) Publicity in Android apps.
Jérémie Anzevui (2010, Master) Positionning module for iPhone.
Alina Burca (2008, Bachelor) A GPS simulator for mobile phone developments.
Pedro Velasco (2008, Bachelor) A coach on your mobile phone for trekking.
Shaban Shaame (2008, Bachelor) Creation and management of 2D barcodes.
Dejan Munjin and Hikari Watanabe (2007, Master) Deployment of J2ME applications.
Ahmet Gyger (2007, Licence) Web-marketing applied to promote a new application.
Joseph Duteil (2006, Licence) TPG timetable on a mobile phone coupled to a GPS.
Ludovic Vollmer and Quentin Miché-Santoro (2006, Licence) Maps on a mobile phone coupled to a GPS.
Romain Dufourd (2006, Licence) Accessing Web-Services to find closest parkings in the city of Geneva. Done at arx iT.
Joëlle Levi and Stéphane Krattinger (2006, Bachelor) In-the-field and real-time emergency teams management via J2ME phones coupled to GPS.
Christophe Praplan and Stéphane Velen (2006, Licence) J2ME API to access a Bluetooth GPS and that provides geo tools, like data conversions and others.
Guillaume Engeli (2005, Licence) Web interface allowing students to subscribe to different classes.

Media coverage

	2012-10-13 (fr): Tribune de Genève La cartographie s’ouvre à l’intérieur des bâtiments. Article
	2012-06-01 (fr): Géomatique Expert FoxyTag, l'avertisseur de radar 100% autogéré. Article
	2012-04-23 (fr): Tribune de Genève Des SMS du XXIe siècle se développent à Genève. Article
	2012-03-16 (fr): Entreprise Romande Les promesses et les dangers des outils de géolocalisation. Article
	2012-02-29 (fr): Bilan La géolocalisation, une alternative à l’EMS? Article
	2010-12-13 (fr): 24heures Un smartphone pour mieux flâner dans les villes. Article
	2010-11-17 (fr): Bilan Le marketing en temps réel court après les mobinautes. Article
	2010-09-01 (fr): Tribune de Genève L'outil qui va changer la vision de Genève. Article
	2010-09-01 (fr): Radio Cité Live interview of Michel Deriaz about GeTag. Audio
	2010-08-31 (fr): Léman Bleu Announcement for GeTag first release.
	2010-02-12 (fr): Télévision Suisse Romande Second TV apparition of GeTag, during Couleurs Locales.
	2010-02-10 (fr): ICTjournal La géolocalisation au service du tourisme urbain. Article
	2009-12-28 (fr): Market Réalité augmentée et tags virtuels. Article
	2009-11-10 (fr): Géomatique Expert Presentation (3 pages) of FoxyTag, FoxyTour and the trust engines. Article
	2009-11-02 (fr): Radio Suisse Romande Presentation of the GeTag project. Presentation, Audio
	2009-10-21 (fr): Léman Bleu First TV apparition of GeTag, during the news.
	2009-10-09 (fr): Tribune de Genève La Ville lance le guide touristique électronique. Article
	2009-08-26 (fr): Bilan Trust engines for virtual tags. Article
	2009-03-23 (fr): Junior Entreprise Genève Innovation à l'Université de Genève: les tags virtuels. Article
	2009-02-10 (de): ProSieben, Galileo Test of 5 popular applications in Germany, including FoxyTag.
	2008-08-19 (fr): 20 Minutes Avertir ou détecter un radar: le site antiradar qui nargue la loi. Article
	2008-05-20 (fr): Radio Suisse Romande Interview of Michel Deriaz about virtual tags. Presentation, Audio
	2007-09-27 (fr): Revue Automobile GPS antiradars: le flou domine. Article
	2007-04-23 (en): Irish Daily Mirror How to beat speed cameras with your mobile. Article
	2007-02-03 (de): SAT.1 Automagazin A report on FoxyTag.
	2006-12-06 (fr): NRJ Interview of Michel Deriaz about FoxyTag, then interview about other possibilities implying virtual tags. Audio1, Audio2
	2006-11-21 (fr): Tribune de Genève Un anti-radar sur son portable. Article
	2006-11-16 (de): SAT.1 A report on FoxyTag. Presentation
	2006-11-10 (fr): Télévision Suisse Romande A report on FoxyTag followed by an interview of Me Christian Lüscher about the legality of this system. Presentation1, Presentation2
	2006-10-30 (fr): Radio Suisse Romande, during "On en parle" Interview of Michel Deriaz and Jean-Christophe Sauterel, spokesman of the cantonal Police force of Vaud. Audio

The full list is available here.

Tools

RegexSR is a very easy-to-use and powerful tool to test and create complex regular expressions.
GeoVTag is a J2ME application running on a mobile phone that allows you to publish virtual tags.
Log is a very easy-to-use logging system, replacing efficiently "System.out.println()" debugging.
RenameFiles is a small application that lets you rename all the files in a specific directory using the power of regular expressions.
Invoker is a Java API that lets you invoke protected and private methods in any object.
Mailer is a small application that sends mails according to instructions given in a file. Uses the javamail package.

Miscellaneous

My publications A list of all the publications I have done for my PhD.
Java source codes Some Java source codes that are freely available.
Java Micro Edition (J2ME) source codes Some Java Micro Edition (J2ME) source codes that are freely available.

Sayings

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. --Bill Gates
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. --Robert Zend
La théorie, c'est quand on sait tout et que rien ne fonctionne. La pratique, c'est quand tout fonctionne et que personne ne sait pourquoi. Ici, nous avons réuni théorie et pratique : Rien ne fonctionne... et personne ne sait pourquoi ! --Albert Einstein
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. --Woody Allen
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. --Joseph E. Levine
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. --Albert Einstein
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. --Derek Bok
Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want to know. --G. K. Chesterton
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. --Jacob Bronowski
Never settle for anything less than your best. --Brian Tracy
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. --Claude Levi-Strauss
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. --Arthur C. Clarke
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. --Jacques Cousteau
Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity. --Kahlil Gibran
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. --Albert Einstein
If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be. --Evelyn Waugh
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. --Edgar Watson Howe
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. --Penelope Fitzgerald
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. --Oprah Winfrey
Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. --Harold Ruopp
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. --Jim Carrey
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. --Ambrose Bierce
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. --Bill Gates
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. --Robert Louis Stevenson
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. --Robert Byrne
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. --Howard Scott
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. --Malcolm Forbes
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. --Joseph E. Levine
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. --Lillian Dickson
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. --Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. --Albert Einstein
Golf is a good walk spoiled. --Mark Twain
I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck. --George Carlin
A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections. --George Eliot