Thomas Furstner

Tom Fuerstner is a research scientist and university professor with over 30 years of experience in formal logic, social economy theory and digital art. Tom is the founder and CTO of Riddle & Code, a company focused on developing dedicated hardware for the physical internet and public ledger systems. These days, he is working on hardened server systems for operating BigchainDB and IPFS. The aim is to enable sustainable and resilient identity services in an emerging world of shared sovereignty between humans, machines, algorithms and protocols.

Experience

Founder & CTO

• Company Name RIDDLE&CODE
• Dates Employed2015 – Present
• Employment Duration4 yrs
• Location Valletta - Malta

riddle&code innovates within the fields of public key infrastructure (PKI) devices and systems. The company develops and sells crypto-gateways, -sensors, -boards and -networks. r&c develops and maintains software to secure real and virtual assets, implements anti fraud systems for the fashion and luxury industry. r&c operates as a digital underwriter and publisher of digital certificates for the international art market. r&c is actively researching new protocols for secure communication between machines, sensors and humans in wireless personal area networks (WPAN) and low power wide-area networks (LPWAN).

Visiting Prof. Media Art

• Company Name Donau-Universität Krems
• Dates Employed2005 – Present
• Employment Duration14 yrs
• Media theory and media art, image sciences, digital art

Director Research & Development, Art Director

• Company Name bwin.party digital entertainment
• Dates Employed2006 – 2015
• Employment Duration9 yrs
  • Research & Development
  • Prototyping
  • API development
  • Interface design and style guides across alle products
  • UX innovations
  • Game design and new game logics
  • Design work stream automation
  • Design tool development

Creative Director

• Company Name marcielo GmbH
• Dates Employed2009 – 2013
• Employment Duration4 yrs
• My own innovation agency

Univ.Prof. Digital Art

• Company Name University of Applied Arts Vienna
• Dates Employed2000 – 2006
• Employment Duration6 yrs
• Digital art, design , prototyping, video, art and science programs, curricula development, media and device hacking, ...

Creative Director

• Company Name ZKM Karlsruhe, Center for Art and Media
• Dates Employed1996 – 2000
• Employment Duration4 yrs
• Net art and advanced prototyping

ORF Online

• Company Name ORF Online
• Dates Employed1990 – 1996
• Employment Duration6 yrs
• Location Vienna
• Setting up the department within the ORF.

Lead Developer Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

• Company Name Zentralsparkasse Wien
• Dates Employed1985 – 1988
• Employment Duration3 yrs
• Development of expert systems in Lisp, Prolog and Smalltalk for financial analysis

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Education

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

• Degree Name Univ.Prof Field Of StudyDigtal Art
• Dates attended or expected graduation 2001 – 2007

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

• Degree Name Mag soc et oec Field Of StudyPolitical Economics
• Dates attended or expected graduation 1984 – 1989