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W. Lamersdorf studied computer science at the Technical
University of
Munich and University of Hamburg. After graduation in 1980, he
spent a year
as guest scientist at the University of Maryland, USA,
collaborating with
the National Institute of Standards (NIST) in the field of
database
languages and semantic data models. 1985 he receved his doctorate
from the
University of Hamburg.
1983 he joined the IBM Scientific Centre in Heidelberg, and then
the IBM
European Networking Centre in the Distributed Applications
research group.
There, he started concentrating on Open Systems communication in
general,
and communication support for database and distributed
applications in
specific. Since 1986 he also participated in international
standardisation
in the area of Open Systems and Applications (e.g. for Remote
Database
Access, RDA) in both national and international standards bodies
(including
ECMA, DIN, and ISO).
In January 1991, W. Lamersdorf joined the staff of Hamburg
University where
he is now a full Professor in the Department of Computer Science
and leads
a research group on Distributed Systems. Areas of his current
research
include application-layer communication, system support for open
distributed systems (including middleware, service
trading/brokerage etc.),
open distributed applications (client/server and beyond,
multi-media etc.),
distributed coordination and cooperation (e.g. workflow
management and
mobile agent technology), and specific distributed application
areas, such
as Environmental Information Systems as well as Electronic
Commerce.
W. Lamersdorf has written, edited and co-authored several books
and more
than 50 scientific papers internationally. He conducted variuos
national
and international research projects - in most cases jointly with
both
academic and industrial partners and funded by many leading
institutions
(including EU/ACTS, EU/ESPRIT, and EU/TEMPUS, DFG, BMBF, GMD, IBM
etc.).
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