Urs Fassler

openlab Summer Student, IT/DI, from 04/07/11 to 02/09/11

Urs Fässler is a M.Sc. student in Computer Science at ETH in Zürich, Switzerland. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur (Switzerland) where he focused on Embedded Systems. Before that he worked several years in industry and did an apprenticeship as an electronics technician.His interests are in Compilers where he is designing a new programming language, Embedded Systems with Linux and bare metal microcontroller programming.Besides the technical interests he is president of theAlternative, a student organization for digital sustainability, and also fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe.