Forum Nokia Champion Personal Introduction Page

Mr. Luis Valente
BSc, computer science, 2002, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
MSc, computer science, 2005, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
PhD candidate, informatics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Brazil

Luis is a PhD candidate in informatics at Brazil’s Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and a member of VisionLab at that university. As an undergraduate and a master’s degree candidate, he conducted research in computer graphics and game development for PCs. His work has helped to start a research programme on game development at the graduate program of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF-Brazil).

Currently, his research focuses on digital entertainment for mobile phones. This includes pervasive games, new ways –such as gestures and other cool things -- of interacting with phone games.

In the mobile industry, he has been selected as a Forum Nokia Champion twice (in 2007 and 2008), and he’s part of the Forum Nokia Wiki administration team.

Luis has won Nokia contests, including:
# Python Code Camp in Rio de Janeiro, 2008
# Flash Lite Code Camp in São Paulo, 2008
# Four-Day Kickoff Summer Contest, 2007

Development Areas of Interest

Mobile platforms

Python for S60, Symbian OS, Java™ ME

Application categories

Entertainment and games

Programming languages

C++, Java, Python

Integrated development environments (IDEs)

Microsoft Visual Studio

Personal Competencies

Languages

Portuguese (native)
English

Mobile competencies

S60 development

Forum Nokia Community activity areas

Forum Nokia Wiki administration
Forum Nokia Blogs (occasionally)

Forum Nokia Discussion Board user name

lpvalente

Main Achievements

Applications

Accelerinvaders, the first game for the Nokia N95 that uses the accelerometer, is available at MOSH and, at the time of this writing, the download count (at MOSH, all revisions of the game) was over 57,000. A video is available on YouTube.

Awards

Python Code Camp, Rio de Janeiro, 2008
Flash Lite Code Camp, São Paulo, 2008
Four-Day Kickoff Summer Contest Winner (Forum Nokia Wiki), 2007
Forum Nokia Champion, 2007 and 2008

Mobile communities

Forum Nokia Wiki

Contact Information

Personal Web pages

www.icad.puc-rio.br/~lvalente

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