Jean-Daniel Nicoud
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Assembly language
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for microprocessor
Microprocessor
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He obtained a degree in physics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and is located in Lausanne, Switzerland.The school was founded by the Swiss Federal Government with the stated mission to:...
(EPFL) in 1963. Around 1965, he became interested in logical systems. He obtained his PhD at the EPFL in 1970 and became a professor in 1973.
His laboratory, LAMI (LAboratoire de Micro-Informatique), developed the Smaky
Smaky
The Smaky is a line of mostly 8-bit personal computers and accompanying operating system developed by Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and others at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland beginning in 1974. The computers were used at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and in...
computer http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=623577, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.1989.10031 in addition to the optical computer mouse http://www.mutech.co.il/topic/computerhistory_03.htm http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/mouse_10172001 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/explorers/interactive/profiles/computer.mouse/content.html http://www.muellerscience.com/ENGLISH/Swiss_Inventions_and_Discoveries.htm, an update of the traditional kinetic mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Carl Engelbart is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on the challenges of human-computer interaction, resulting in the invention of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs...
. The Khepera mobile robot
Khepera mobile robot
The Khepera is a small differential wheeled mobile robot that was developed at the LAMI laboratory of Prof. Jean-Daniel Nicoud at EPFL in the mid '90s. It was developed by Edo...
was also developed at the LAMI.
He left the EPFL in August 2000 and is actively innovating in his private company, DIDEL, especially in the area of miniature ultralight aircraft (below 10 g airplanes). His airplane was used in a publication that received a best paper award in IROS 2006 conference http://www.springerlink.com/content/9153v4j17j58289p/.