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Krzysztof Amborski
was born on August 14, 1941 in Lublin, Poland. He
received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications and
Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, both from Warsaw University of
Technology, Warsaw, Poland, in 1964 and 1972,
respectively.
Besides he received M.A. degree in Mathematics (Numerical
Methods) in 1971 from University of Warsaw, Poland.
He joined the Institute
of Control and Industrial Electronics in May 1964,
where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He received
several Awards from the Rector of Warsaw University of
Technology for educational and scientific achievements
and three Awards from the Minister of Science and
Education.
Since December 1994 he is also active as an expert in
broadband transmission of multimedia services in
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. and member of ETNO working
group.
For academic year 1998/99 he is appointed Professor at
the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany,
where he is teaching simulation, fundamentals of
computers and Media Systems Design.
He is a member of Polish Electricians Association, Polish
Society of Theoretical and Applied Electrotechnics,
Polish Informatics Society, Polish Mathematical Society,
American Mathematical Society, Society for Computer
Simulation and a reviewer for the Mathematical Review.
Hobbies: high-see sailing, alpin skiing, symphonic music.
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Roberto Sabella
received the degree in electronics engineering (Laurea in
Ingegneria Elettronica) from the University La Sapienza
of Roma, Italy, in 1987. He then joined Ericsson
Telecomunicazioni, Rome, Italy, where he was a Hardware
Designer for about one-and-a-half years, and then as a
Researcher on advanced fiber-optic communications. His
research interests are in high-speed optical
communication systems and optical networks. Since 1991,
he led a group working on the modeling and simulation of
advanced communication systems. He holds two patents on
optical cross-connects, is coauthor of a book on
high-speed optical communications, and author of more
than 70 papers on scientific/technical journals and
conferences. Since May 1997, he has been with CoRiTel
consortium as research technical coordinator. He has been
Lecturer (professore a contratto) at the University of
Rome Tor Vergata and at the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy. |
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Associate Professor Thomas
Plagemann received his Diploma in Computer
Science from the University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
in 1990, and his Doctor of Technical Science from Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
(Switzerland) in 1994. In 1995, he was honoured with the
Medal of the ETH Zurich for his doctoral thesis, in which
he developed the Da CaPo communication subsystem. Since
1994, Thomas Plagemann is working at UniK - Center of
Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo (Norway) where
he has created a research group in the area of
distributed multimedia systems. His research interests
include multimedia middleware, QoS, operating system
support for distributed multimedia systems, and
interactive distance learning. In 1998, Thomas Plagemann
was Co-Chair of IDMS'98 (International Workshop on
Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and
Telecommunication Services) September 1998 in Oslo and
Co-Workshop-Chair for the International ACM Multimedia
Conference 1998 in September in Bristol. |
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Vlasta Žurić Hudek
graduated in 1974 at Faculty of Electrical Engineering
of University of Zagreb, where she received M.Sc. degree
in 1980 and Ph. D. degree in 1993.
After graduation she joined Croatian Telecom where she
worked in the field of telecom network maintenance and on
its development later on. Currently she is an expert for
telecom network development responsible for fibre optics
technology and broadband access networks areas.
She is author or co-author of near sixty published
scientific and professional papers. |
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Vladimir Brlić
was born on February 5, 1950 in Zagreb, Croatia. He
received his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering/Telecommunications from Faculty of Electrical
Engineering at University of Zagreb in 1977 and 1987
respectively.
Since November 15, 1974 he has worked at Croatian
Telecom. He was first performing the jobs of the
organizer of international telephone exchange. From 1979
till 1991 he was working as the chief of organizational
unit for international and long distance telephone
equipment. Since 1991 he has worked in the
Telecommunication Directorate as the Head of
Telecommunication Network and Services Development
Department.
Since 1977 he has been actively participating in the
scientific work. He received special Award from the
Rector of University of Zagreb and tree Awards from the
Dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University
of Zagreb.
On April 10, 1984 by the decision of the scientific
council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering he was
given a scientific title of Scientific Assistant from the
field of electronics, and in 1987 the title of Scientific
Associate from the same field. For the last nine years he
have been participating in the education of pre-graduate
students. Till the year 1997 he held a lecture called:
“The Traffic in Info Networks” and today he holds a
lecture called “Organization of Telecommunication
Network”. As author/co-author he has so far published
107 scientific and expert works. |
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Taieb Znati
obtained a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science at Michigan
State University, East Lansing, in April 1988, and a
Master of Science Degree at Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana. In 1988, Dr. Znati joined the
University of Pittsburgh where he currently holds an
associate professor position in the Department of
Computer Science with a joint appointment in
Telecommunications in the Department of Information
Science, and a joint appointment in Computer Engineering. His
current research interests focus on the design of network
protocols for wired and wireless communication networks
to support multimedia applications' QoS requirements, the
development of multicast protocols for multimedia
applications, the design and analysis of medium access
control protocols for distributed real-time systems, and
the investigation of fundamental design issues related to
efficient access of multimedia information. He
contributed numerous papers in these research fields.
Dr. Znati participated in the development of several
programs of continued education. He is a regular
participant in Network Focused College education program
and the Advanced Technology Innovation program at the
Information Networking Institute (INI) of Carnegie Melon
University. He has been frequently invited to present
lectures and tutorials in networking and distributed
multimedia related topics, in the United States of
America and abroad. He has given seminars on
client/server applications, TCP/IP protocol architecture,
SNA, and other network protocols, throughout the United
States, Europe and Asia. He was also invited to
participate in the Pacific Bell distance learning
initiative for the development and presentation of a
series of Interenet-based, interactive seminars on the
fundamentals of internetworking and superhighway of
information.
Dr. Znati is currently a member of the TF Group on
Multimedia. He is the current general chair of CNDS'99
and the Annual Simulation Symposium and served as a
program chair of numerous conferences and workshops in
networking and distributed multimedia systems. He also
served in numerous panels on future developments in
multimedia systems from the perspective of researchers,
developers and users. Dr. Znati is also member of the
Editorial Board of the International Journal of Parallel
and Distributed Systems and Networks.
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Antun Carić
received BSc, MSc and PhD from University of Zagreb. He
is adjunct lecturer at theUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty
of Electrical Engineering and Computing. He is director
of R&D division of Ericsson in Croatia – Ericson
Nikola Tesla. His current field of interest inludes
software design, open systems, network signalling and
control, new network services and applications. |
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Kristian Toivo
received M Sc. Degree from Helsinki University of
Technology and joined Ericsson in 1984. He is currently
President of Ericsson Eurolab Germany GmbH im
Herzogenrath, Germany. His career at Ericsson includes
positions in R&D, Product Management and Marketing in
the areas of switching systems, intelligent networks and
cellular systems. |
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Glorianna Davenport is
founder and director of the Interactive CinemaGroup in
the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Trained as a documentary film maker, Ms.
Davenport has achieved international recognition for her
work in the new media forms. Her research explores
fundamental issues related to the collaborative
co-construction of digital media experiences, where the
task of narration is split among authors, consumers, and
computer mediators. Ms Davenport's recent work focuses
on the creation of customizable, personalizable
storyteller systems which dynamically serve and adapt to
a widely dispersed society of audience. Ms. Davenport has
taught, lectured and published internationally on
subjects of interactive multimedia and story
construction. She has received several industry awards
for her documentary movies and multimedia projects. Ms.
Davenport has served as an advisor to several start-up
companies founded by former students. Publications: http://ic.www.media.mit.edu. |
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Tawfig F. Alrabiah
received a PhD degree in Computer Science from the
University of Pittsburgh in 1999. He also holds an M.S.
degree in Information Science from the University of
Pittsburgh. His current research interests are in
developing network routing and path establishment schemes
to support unicast and multicast communication in
distributed multimedia systems. Mr. Alrabiah is a member
of ACM and IEEE.} |