Contact

Courses

Research

Publications

Master Thesis

Projects

Activities/Functions

CV

Contact

O. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Laszlo Böszörmenyi (Head of the Department of Information Technology and of the Research Group Distributed Multimedia Systems), full professor
Office: E.2.62 - Office Hours: Monday 15.00 - 16.00
Phone: ++43 (0)463 2700 3611, Fax: ++43 (0)463 2700 3699, E-mail:

Current Courses (WS 2007/08)

• Computer Networks (Rechnernetze und Netzwerkprogrammierung)
• Distributed Multimedia Systems (Verteilte Multimedia Systeme)
• Privatissimum
• Dissertantenseminar
• More...

Research area (Distributed Multimedia Systems)

Distributed Multimedia Systems, Adaptability in Distributed Multimedia Systems, Adaptive Video Distribution via Proxy Groups, Semantic and Network-Level Affinity serving for Video Distribution, Scene based Adaptation, Adaptation based on Advanced Video Coding, 4D User Interfaces, Programming Languages and Compilers for Multimedia Applications, History of computing science and epistemological backgrounds of cognition.

Publications

• Refereed and Invited Conference Papers
• Publications in Scientific Journals
• Editorial work and Contributions to Books
• Technical Reports and Others
• ALL Publications (pdf)
• Virtual Exhibition in memory of Dahl, Disjkstra and Nygaard

Master Thesis (Diplomarbeiten)

• QoS Benchmarking

• Automatische compiler-basierte Parallelisierung in einem verteilten heterogenen Netzwerk

• CSCW Management for Model-Based Libraries

• Evaluation von straßenseitiger Sensorik und Aktorik auf Autobahnen und Schnellstrassen gemäß dem „TLS-Standard“

• Zipf’s law for online multimedia content & change of popularity over time

Projects

• Georeferenced Multimedia Touristguide (GeoMT)

• HUBUSKA

• Translational Research (CAMUS)

• SIEMENS SMART "Scene based Video Adaptation"

• ANET Tourguide

• Carinthian Networked Multimedia (CNM)

• Proxy-to-Proxy (X2X) Video Distribution and Streaming

• Semantic and Network-Level Affinity serving for Video Distribution

• Adaptation based on Advanced Video Coding

• 4D User Interfaces

• Programming Languages and Compilers for Multimedia Application

• Quality Adaptive Video-Caching and -Transmission

• Adaptive Multimedia Server based on Mobile Agents

• People behind Informatics

Detaild information can be found at the Research documentation at the Klagenfurt University.

Activities/Functions

Academic Functions (Selection):

• Scientific Advisory Body of M3-Systems, Klagenfurt

• Consultant for the advisory board of BUILD! - The Graduate Centre for Entrepreneurship in Carinthia

• Member of Editorial board of "Computer Science and Information Systems"

• Referee of project proporsals for "The National Office for Research and Technology, Hungary"

• Vice President of the Austrian Society for History of Computing Sicence (June 2004 - June 2007)

• Referee of project proposals for "The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)" (2005)

• Deputy member of the Steering Committee of Minema (ESF Scientific Programme) - (2004 - 2005)

• Consultant of the appointment committee "Angewandte Musikwissenschaft" at Klagenfurt University (2006)

• Consultant of the appointment committees "Media Engineering" and "Pervasive Computing" at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria (2005)

• Consultant of the appointment committees "Mobile Systems" and "Computer Science in Transportation" at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria (2004)

Functions at conferences/Program Committees (Selection):

2007

• Chair and Organizer of "Methodic and Didactic Challenges of the History of Informatics Workshop (MEDICHI 2007)" - April 2007, Klagenfurt, Austria

• Chair and Organizer of "Wolfgang von Kempelen Prize for Computing Science History 2007"

• Member of Program Committee of "The 6th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and its Applications (ISTA 2007)" - May 2007, Kharkiv, Ukraine

• Member of Program Committee of "The 5th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM 2007)" - December 2007, Jakarta, Indonesia

• Member of Program Committee of 10th International Confernce on Business Information Systems (BIS 2007) - April 2007, Poznan, Poland

• Member of Program Committee of "International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (ENTER 2007)" - January 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Member of Program Committee of "High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS 2007)" - May 2007, Saskatoon, Canada

• Member of Program Committee of "Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2007)" - February 2007, Innsbruck, Austria

2006

• General Chair of the 77th MPEG and 20th JVT ISO/IEC meeting, July 17-21, 2006, Klagenfurt, Austria

• Member of Program Committee of "6th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW 2006)" - September 2006, Graz, Austria

• Member of Program Committee of "Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems (DAPSYS 2006)" - September 2006, Innsbruck, Austria

• Member of Program Committee of "The International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet–Based Systems (SITIS'2006)" - December 2006, Hammamet, Tunisia

• Member of Program Committee of "International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM 2006)" - December 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

• Member of Program Committee of "Informatics in Secondary Schools: Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP 2006)" - November 2006, Vilnius, Lithuania

• Member of Program Committee of "Multimedia Metadata Community Workshop 2006" - September 2006, Graz, Austria

• Member of Program and Steering Committee of "Joint Modular Languages Conference 2006 (JMLC)", September 2006, Oxford, United Kingdom

• Member of Program Committee of "The 10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2006)", July 2006, Orlando/Florida, USA

• Member of Program Committee of "The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Networking (WMSN 2006)", April 2006, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

• Member of Program Committee of "The 14th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network based Processing (PDP 2006)", February 2006, Montbéliard, France

• Member of Program Committee of "Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2006)" , February 2006, Innsbruck, Austria

• Member of Program Committee of "International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (ENTER 2006)", January 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland

2005

• Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "The Third International Conference on Advances in Mobile Multimedia (MoMM 2005)", September 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Global Chair and Reviewer of Distributed and High-Performance Multimedia at EuroPar 2005, August/September 2005, Lisbon, Portugal

• General Chair of the Minema Summer School on wireless networking issues, ad-hoc networking, security in wireless networks, mobile environments, middleware for mobile computing, multimedia in heterogeneous networks etc., July 2005, Klagenfurt, Austria

• Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2005)", February 2005, Innsbruck, Austria

• Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2005)", July 2005, Orlando/Florida, USA

• Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "The First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Networking (WMSN 2005)", April 2005, Phoenix/Arizona, USA

• Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "Informatics in Secondary Schools (ISSEP 2005)", March 2005, Klagenfurt, Austria

Brief Curriculum Vitae

• Current position: Full professor of Computer Science at Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
  Born: January 11, 1949 in Budapest, Hungary
  Family status: Married with Judit Revesz, cellist, three children (Anna, Janos, Andras)
  Citizenships: Austrian and Hungarian
  Languages: Proficiency in German, English and Hungarian
  
  Professional praxis:
• Since 1992 - Alpen Adria Universiät Klagenfurt, Austria, Dept. of Information Technology
• 1998 - Visiting Professor - State University of New York at Stony Book, NY, USA 
• February 1992 - Visiting researcher - Systems Research Center of DEC (COMPAQ), Palo Alto, California, USA
• 1977/78, 1984/85 & 1990/91: Visiting researcher and lecturer; Participating on research in compiler technology and interactive graphical systems at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 1980-92: Head of Scientific Group, later Head of Scientific Department, Research and Development in the field of computer networking, operating systems, concurrent systems and software technology at Computer & Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
• 1972 - 1980: Research and Development in the field of computer networking and software technology at Computer Center, Research Institute for Electrical Energy, Budapest, Hungary

Reflections (in hu, de, en)

Some books of Georg Kuehlewind in Hungarian (proteced, ask me for passsword)