Computer networks, multimedia systems and
teleteaching
Curriculum Vitae
Lebenslauf
I received my Diploma in electrical engineering in
1976 and my Dr.-Ing. degree in computer science in 1981 from the
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. From 1981-1984 I
worked in the United States.
I was an Assistant Professor at the University of
Arizona in Tucson, then a Post-Doctoral Fellow at IBM Research in
San Jose, California.
In 1984 I returned to Germany where I joined IBM's newly
founded European Networking Center in Heidelberg. From 1984-1989
I led a research group working on the design and implementation
of communication protocols and applications for the emerging OSI
networks.
In 1989 I joined the University of Mannheim as a full
professor of computer science where I now teach computer networks
and multimedia technology.
I am the co-author of a book on multimedia
communications, a book on video compression techniques,
editor/co-editor of five other books, and I have published a
number of papers in national and international journals and
conferences.
I am a member of the editorial board of Springer/ACM
Multimedia Systems and Kluwer Multimedia Tools and Applications,
and I serve on the program committee for the IEEE and SPIE
multimedia conferences and many other national and international
conferences.
I am a member of ACM, IEEE and Gesellschaft für
Informatik.
