On Monday, the 1st of march, we held a little presentation at the O’Reilly Ignite Talk in Berlin.

Join us in Hamburg, Audimax 1, for another presentation of your favorite team on Wednesday, Feb 17th, at 1900 MET.

Berlin, Germany (January 28, 2010) – Today, team Part-Time-Scientists announced Xilinx Inc. as an official sponsor of the team. The semiconductor industry leader is the world’s biggest provider of programmable platforms. As inventor of the first commercially viable field programmable gate array (FPGA) Xilinx provides the Part-Time-Scientists with technology and know how that put rovers on Mars and help create ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at CERN. Team Part-Time-Scientists, headquartered in Berlin, Germany with 38 team members is among 21 teams from 18 countries that are competing for their share of the $30 million prize purse.

On Monday the Part-Time-Scientists held an extensive presentation on the GoogleLunarXPrize and their approach of winning it. The 2 hour long presentation was streamed live via the 26C3’s own website. Excerpts of it will be made available over the next couple of days.
Main parts of the presentation included …

Members of the Part Time Scientists will be attending the Eurospaceward on December 5-6 in Luxembourg.