As already noted (section: Our Story->The Beginning), NetLab is a privately one-man-owned business. In such cases, as you might have guessed, the business life and the private life of that man, although not conflicted, are very closely related, if not interwoven. Well, latest news in backwards order are:
25. January 2010.
While you might think
that we have been lazy (or just negligent) all this long period not
updating this Website, the truth is that we were really busy so that
this update rated low in the “priority list”. Shortly, we
developed sites, lectured at Pedagogic
Institute seminars, put on track Sailability Hellas
running regularly (in cooperation with NOTK
and the Municipality
of Kallithea),
set up anew the Greeks Initiative for the Indipendent
Living (part of www.enil.eu),
met (on that subject) with Greek MEPs in the European Parliament in
Strasbourg and many more. We'll be back with more news next time...
24. August 20, 2007.
We are back to business after vacation. It
is so good to be on vacatiion... hmm... sorry, anyway). It has been
so long since we last updated this section! You see, we were so busy.
Pasttense again: the assinment was to convert 3 scientifiic books
(physics dept.) to a form usable by blind students. It took
developing a certain protocol from scratch, converting the printed
book into computer processable file (OCR), rewriting all the formulas
according to the protocol, and correcting all the text. Now, our
fellow student listens to his book using a common screen reader or,
with just a little more work from us, we can "print" it
into braille (PIAF). The project was carried in cooperation with
Univ. of Athens, dept. of informatics.
23. January 3, 2006
That was it! The EMOSI
project was shipped to the US. We shall rather use a remote
administrator program to work with their computer from Greece to
install the drivers and the software application, as the weather in
New Haven is pretty rough this time of the year. Here
is the documentation.
22. August 28, 2005
Today the hardware was delivered to NetLab.
We are beginning the development immediately.
21. May 2005
"Deal's a deal". NetLab
undertook to setup a monitoring system of environmental parameters
(namely Temperature and Humidity) at the Ikonisys
Inc. facilities - laboratories - instruments. We are placing
orders for the required hardware and software at the time.
20. March 2005
So, we were back to our main topic and we were
proposed a new assignement by an company located in the US (!). Our
offer has been made and, if they agree, we 'll let you know about.
19. March 2005
The summer of the year 2004 was so interesting.
Athens held the Olympic and Paralympic Games. NetLab
moved to our new headquarters. We 've also been assigned a totally
different project: to set up, manage and publish a new magazine for a
big publishing company. No matter our hard work and the product we
presented, the project was temperarily put off by the publisher. We
hope that it will eventually "see the light". There is also
exciting news concerning Sailability Hellas organization.
18. April 30, 2004
The work with the Univ. of Athens was
finished. Good project (here).
17. April, 2004
2004 has come in quite conspicuously. The trip
to Australia was scheduled since October. By new year's all running
projects were finished and closed. We flew to Melbourne on Jan. 12
and back from Sydney on Feb. 6. We participated in the first World's
Single Person Dinghy Regatta making history. [You
can read the whole story in Greek...]
16. November 6, 2003
The development of the "SCXI
Monitoring" application was completed today. That's good news;
we 'll be paid!
15. September 25, 2003
In the meantime one more assignment came
up for NetLab.
It is the National Technical Univ. of
Athens at the Depatment of
Marine Engineering. They need an advanced application to monitor
(real-time) temperature and strain condition via thermocouples and
strain gages, and to record these measerments for further analysis.
14. We'd better not frustrate you with too many words. Just follow this link. You see, it is so hard to begin a whole new activity such as Sailing for Everyone! But we succeeded! Take a look
13. June 22, 2003
It's been 15 years since my
accident, which brought me a C5 quadriplegia; more than 20 since I
sailed for the last time. Last 15 years with a dream: to change...
Read the
full story or download
the newletters from the official site.
OK, it has been a longtime since we last updated our internet site; we apologize for that. But, believe us, we had been so busy! We still are but we 'd better not put it off any longer. (Note made on November 7, 2003)
12. December 23, 2002
Yes, we know, it is only 2
days before christmas; we were supposed to be on vacation. But today
a new undertaking was assigned to NetLab.
In cooperation with the Univ.
of Athenns (D. of Informatics) we shall build a Web site
as Employment Watch concerning people with disabilities. It is a very
big project with 27 partners, run under (and funded by) the Equal
Intiative of the EU.
11. September 27, 2002
The project "Smoker"
was completed. It is a "hell of a machine" now. You can
view the Documentation
& Manual (Greek language iso-8859-7).
10. July 15, 2002
The IBEB staff decided to
upgrade the Hardware as well as the Software (Drivers)
of the machine, since it is essential to their research. It will need
of course a new software application for this to function. The
task was assigned to NetLab
and the deadline was set at September 30th 2002 (August is an
"infertile" for work due to Summer vacations).
9. July 4, 2002
Mr. P.
Tsinganos was interviewed
by the journalist Manos Charalambakis for the newspaper Ta
Nea after the
charges that he (P. Tsinganos) brought against the Greek Public
Transportations System for inadequacy in serving people with low
mobility.
8. April 22, 2002
New Mission for NetLab:
IBEB is the Institute of Biomedical Research and Biotechnology. It
needed a Smoker-simulator machine for their research. They called
NetLab
to build the computer application.
7. December 2, 2001
Mr. P.
Tsinganos, General Manager of NetLab,
was present at the Ef
Zin expo and was interviewed
by Mr. Dimitris B. Triantafilidis, editor in chief of
the Imerisia finacial
newspaper. The interview was published on Saturday-Sunday,
December 8-9, 2001.
6. October 2001
A master's
degree on Electronics & Automation was judged necessary for
the upgrading of NetLab's
services. It is on the way.
5. October 2001
Chloris Online is completed
but it cannot be uploaded yet, due to the lack of the appropriate
hardware at the Section of Botany. NetLab
is not responsible for the delay.
4. August 26, 2001
Mr. P.
Tsinganos, General Manager of NetLab,
participated at the Congress on
Rehabilitation Nursing, held in Thessaloniki, Hellas (Greece) by the
Aristotle Institute.
3. June 2001
The development of the Online
Version of the Chloris database was assigned to NetLab
by the Section of Botany at the Biology
Department. Its current (testing) location is this
one.
2. June 2001
The automation
project at the Section of Ecology & Systematics at the
Biology
Department is finished and working perfectly. They do not operate
it quite often (the switches are usually at the Off position),
who knows why.
1. May 16, 2001
NetLab
is officialy starting to provide the promised services.
