Concept and reality of the Internet
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer Sprache
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Ph.D. Alexander HALAVAIS
Associate Professor, School of Communications, Department of Film, Video and Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, Hamden
| 1993 | BA Political Science, University of California, Irvine |
| 1998 | MA Communications, University of Washington, Seattle |
| 1998-2000 | Teaching Assistant, University of Washington |
| 2000-2001 | Lecturer, University of Washington |
| Adjunct Professor, Seattle University, Department of Communication | |
| 2001 | Ph.D. Communications, University of Washington, Seattle |
| 2001-2006 | Assistant Professor of Communication & Graduate Director of Informatics, University at Buffalo (SUNY), School of Informatics |
| since 2006 | Assistant Professor of Interactive Communications, Quinnipiac University |
Dr. Thomas HOFMANN
Director of Engineering, Google Switzerland GmbH, Zurich
| Received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Bonn in 1997 and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at MIT and at UC Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute. | |
| 1999-2004 | Assistant and then Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brown University. |
| 2004-2006 | Held a position as a Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, while also serving as the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems. He is also co-founder and former Chief Scientist of Recommind Inc, a privately owned company focusing on enterprise search. |
| since 2006 | Director of Engineering at Google and one of the site leads of Google's engineering center in Zurich, Switzerland. His scientific interests are in machine learning, information retrieval, and computer vision. |
Dr. Bernhard PELZL
Geschäftsführer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz
| Studium der Sprachwissenschaften, Orientalistik, Geschichte und Philosophie (Wissenschaftstheorie) an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz | |
| 1971-1979 | Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeit an den Universitäten Graz, Hamburg und Münster/Westfalen, dazwischen Verlagslektor und Buchhändler |
| 1979-1997 | Beim ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk, zuletzt Leiter der Ö1-Reihe "Dimensionen", Wien |
| seit 1997 | Wissenschaftlicher Direktor der JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz |
| Honorar-Professor für Medienwissenschaften (Ästhetik, Semiotik, Rhetorik) an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz | |
| Consultant für Managementberatung und Marketing |
