STI Innsbruck is a research group at the University of Innsbruck engaged in research and development to bring information and communication technologies of the future into today's world.

Alice Carpentier

Alice
Carpentier

That’s it, that’s all – good-bye STI! But before I go, here is what it was like (and so much more):

  • a nurse / a Dirndl / Trinity II / an iPhone
  • marriages / divorces / babies
  • nervous breakdowns / hysterical laughter / tears of frustration / eyebrows raised in confusion or disbelief or utter shock / trying to make sense of it all (mostly in vain) / smiles /hugs / screams / whispers
  • enough emails received, answered, deleted to last for a lifetime
  • 389 days of travelling all over the world
  • countless reports, deliverables, white papers, posters, flyers, websites, blogs, wikis, slide decks, social dinners, working lunches, meetings, telecons
  • being pushed into a swimming pool in Tenerife
  • lots of friends, a few enemies
  • 6 different laptops / 2 different buildings / 4 different offices
  • dragging an entire project consortium up to the Seegrube during a snow storm
  • leading another project consortium from Arzler Alm back down to the city in the dark (without casualties!)
  • a roasted Chinese pig with electric eyes that blinked
  • DERI movies
  • calling room service from a certain villa in Crete at 4 a.m. to order 3 additional bottles of Ouzo
  • Omair dancing on a bar counter
  • Soccer games / BBQs / costume Xmas parties
  • “Are we gaga?” / “I have no glue.”
  • Going on sightseeing tours to every tiny Tyrolean village with the FOURSEASON shuttle service …