My Simple Homepage @ starryalley.homelinux.net

About

• Weblog
• Photo Gallery
• A registered Linux user: #419053
• Uses the sobriquet "starryalley" in the internet
• Currently serving substitute military service in Nantou, Taiwan (Formosa)
• Was born on 25th, Feb 1984, at Tatu Township, Taichiung County.  (a small town near the sea in central Taiwan)

• Astronomy (since 1998)
• Bicycling (Both Mountain/Road Bike, since Sep 2004)
• Bird-Watching and Nature (since 2002)
• Computer Graphics Design
• Mountaineering (since 2005)
• Photography (Mostly Nature, Landscape, or Astronomical)
• Programming and Linux
• Travel
• Acoustic Guitar (still a newbie, since Oct 2007)

• Embedded Software Development
• Multimedia Related Software-Hardware Integration
• SCREAM Linux Middleware

Education

• M.S. SCREAM Lab., Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, Sep 2005-Aug 2007

• B.S. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, Sep 2001-June 2005

• MingDao High School, Sep 1995-June 2001
  

Awards and Competitions

• 2006 Ministry of Education, Microcontroller System and Application Design Contest, embedded software group, 3rd prize (graduate student team)

• 2004 TREND Micro's“Natural Born Programmer” Million-Dollar Programming Contest, 3rd prize, with 4 additional awards: The Best Performance, The Best Change Management, and The Best Costume Design.

• 2004 Mobilehero Wireless Communication Contest, PlayTech group, won semi-final

• 2003 Programming Contest of Dept. of Computer Science, NCKU, Honorable Award
• 2002 Programming Contest of Dept. of Computer Science, NCKU, Honorable Award
• 2001 GEPT (General English Proficiency Test), Intermediate.
• 2001 Information Engineering Contest of MingDao High School, 2nd place
• 2001 Mathematics Contest of MingDao High School, 2nd place
• 2000 English Composition Contest of MingDao High School, Honorable Award
• 1999 English Composition Contest of MingDao High School, 4th place
  

Experiences

• Serving substitute military service at Ministry of The Interior at Nantou, Apr 2008-present
• Researcher at SoC Technology Center at ITRI(Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan), Sep 2007-Jan 2008
• Course Assistant of Special Topics in Multimedia Embedded System, Feb 2007-June 2007
• Course Assistant of Electronics and Electrical Circuit, Feb 2006-June 2006
• Principal of Photography in the design of 2005 Class Book of National Cheng-Kung University, Jan 2005-June 2005
• Principal of Astronomy Club at NCKU, Aug 2002-Feb 2003
• Counselor and Teacher of Astronomy Club of National Shan-Hua Senior High School, Sep 2002-Jan 2003
• Vice-principal of Astronomy Club at MingDao Senior High School, Sep 1999-June 2000
• English Assistant in class at MingDao Senior High School, Sep 1998-June 2000

• (Sourceforge Project) : Mobile Planetarium for Cell Phones (a Planetarium software for Java-enabled mobile phones)
• (Sourceforge Project) : SCREAM Linux Middleware (a tiny and efficient cross-platform embedded middleware for application software development)
• Computer Graphics Design (gallery of my Website Design and other ART works)

• E-mail: starryalley at gmail dot com
• MSN account: email me for that