{"id":1236,"date":"2007-04-20T06:56:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T06:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parnes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/04\/20\/new_challanges\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T06:56:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T06:56:23","slug":"new_challanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/04\/20\/new_challanges\/","title":{"rendered":"New Challanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning everybody,<br \/>\nLast night <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/collaborating-with-marratech.html\">Google acquired Marratech&#8217;s video conferencing software<\/a> that has been developed here in Lule&aring; by myself and several of my colleagues, e.g. Dick Schefstr&ouml;m, K&aring;re Synnes and Johnny Wid&eacute;n. The research behind Marratech started in 1995 with the <a href=\"http:\/\/media.csee.ltu.se\/\">creation of the software engineering division  within Systemteknik (later Media Technology)<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdt.ltu.se\/\">Centre for Distance-spanning Technology, CDT<\/a>. The company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marratech.com\/\">Marratech AB<\/a> was created in 1998 where I have been working as Chief Scientist since the start in parallel to my employment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltu.se\/\">Lule&aring; University of Technology<\/a>.<br \/>\nI will shortly be joining Google to continue the research and development of video conferencing software. This means that I will not work full time at LTU anymore and I have agreed with K&aring;re Synnes and Thomas Gustafssson to stay on and continue as main supervisor for my graduate students as well as help out in a couple of projects.<br \/>\nThe development will continue in Lule&aring; under the Google name and that is something I hope we together can leverage on to attract more students and research funding to LTU!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/media.csee.ltu.se\/~peppar\/di_070420.pdf\">A not so true article in today&#8217;s Dagens Industri<\/a><br \/>\n-Peter Parnes<br \/>\n0706614567<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning everybody, Last night Google acquired Marratech&#8217;s video conferencing software that has been developed here in Lule&aring; by myself and several of my colleagues, e.g. Dick Schefstr&ouml;m, K&aring;re Synnes and Johnny Wid&eacute;n. The research behind Marratech started in 1995 with the creation of the software engineering division within Systemteknik (later Media Technology) and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/04\/20\/new_challanges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Challanges<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpeppar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}