Who is Akta?
Here we are with some info on who is Akta, maybe somebody could ask it, maybe not 
Name: Marco Rapino
Nickname: Akta
Date of birth: 30-10-1983
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Zodiac: Scorpio
Where I live: Helsinki, Finland
Where am I from: Lanciano, Chieti, Italy
Education: Ba. Sc. Computer Sciences
Personal info:Nerd, Sampdoria fan, gambler, dreamer
Interests: 3D (Blender mainly even my background is with Maya and 3DS), programming (Python, C, C++, Java, C#, ActionScript, JS, PHP, ASP, different markup languages, Raw biodata analysis and parsing), music, football, friends, food and drink.
Music: Rock, Metal, Cross-over, Electronic, Piano (Einaudi-like), Chill-out
Books: T. Brooks and J.R.R. Tolkien, fantasy mainly
Languages: Italian, English, French, Finnish some Spanish
Skype: aktathelegend
Work experiences
Date ( from – to ): 1/7/2005 – 1/9/2005
Name and address of employer: RealNetwork, Lanciano (CH)
Type of business or sector: Advanced web solutions
Occupation or position held Php programmer, graphic, research system management on geographic – roadway maps (Google maps)
Date ( from – to ): 1/6/2006 – 1/12/2006
Name and address of employer: University of Perugia
Type of business or sector : University research work
Occupation or position held : Programming and interface of immersive devices, creation of special virtual environments, work thesi presented at the ICCSA (International Conference on Computer Science Applications) 2006 of Glasgow. Management of clusters and operations on the grid – INFN network.
Date ( from – to ): 1/12/2006 – 1/08/2007
Name and address of employer: RealNetwork, Lanciano (CH)
Type of business or sector: Advanced web solutions
Occupation or position held: Php programmer, graphic, production of a web search engine based on PHP and MYSQL, production and developing of an instant messaging based on AJAX technology, including a sending remote file system and audio/video communication
Date ( from – to ): 1/03/2007 – 1/9/2007
Name and address of employer: Region of Abruzzo
Type of business or sector: Web master – Web Designer – Database Administrator
Occupation or position held: Production of a dynamic web-site, database administration and develop, production of an application client server based.
Date ( from – to ): 1/5/2007 – Still cooperating
Name and address of employer: Multimedia Comunicazione, Lanciano (CH)
Type of business or sector: Web TV
Occupation or position held: Development of a CMS dealing with the Web TV “VideoCittà”, one of the first web tv of my county. This CMS does support the upload and pubblication of VideoCittà services, banner advertising control and moreover the management of the Web TV special contents
Date ( from – to ): 15/10/2007 – 15/08/2010
Name and address of employer: Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR)
Type of business or sector: Research
Occupation or position held: Currently working on two EU projects, PASION and TARGET. The first is about augmenting communications over the networks, social network studies in other words. In this project I have been responsible for the development of four application in the Collaborative Knowledge Work area. The four platforms on which I developed the applications are: Skype, Outlook, Mobile (Nokia S series and Windows Mobile) and iGoogle-GMail. Those extensions aimed to collect communication data from different protocols and generate social indexes and network graphs on the basis of the events exchanged between users during their normale usage of the different applications. The TARGET project is about games, even if I cooperated in another project which is called FUGA (Fun of Gaming), this is my first experience with adaptative games. An adaptative game is a game that can change itself (difficulty, controls, environment etc) on the basis of psychophysiological data coming from sensors like EKG (Electrocardiogram), EEG (Electroencephalogram) etc. My task is to develop the component which gather data from the sensors to the game over bluetooth connection. I have been presenting PASION applications at the ICT in Lyon in November 2008 and I have took part in several conferences in Finland and Europe. I got also a paper publication at the HCI conference in San Diego (California) that will be held this summer in July. In the spare time I’m carrying out some personal projects mainly using Python, Blender Game Engine and cheap but powerful technologies such as Wiimote, PS3 controller and so on.
Date ( from – to ): 16/08/2010 – Present
Name and address of employer: Rovio Mobile Ltd
Type of business or sector: Game Company
Occupation or position held: Game programmer working on the most sold iPhone application ever: Angry Birds. At present dealing with updates, but soon hoping to switch to the version 2 of the game
