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Biographical Information for the Binational Panel
Pages 400-408

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From page 400...
... National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Committee on Computational Mechanics; Committee on Earthquake Engineering Facilities; Ship Structure Committee; Research and Technology Coordinating Committee for FHWA; and Committee on Technology Policy Options in a Global Economy. He has also served on advisory boards to various governmental agencies and as a consultant to a number of organizations.
From page 401...
... He is editor or co-editor of several books and many proceedings dealing with computer graphics and related applications. Encarnação is member of the editorial board of various professional journals such as IEEE CG&A, Computer Graphics Forum, Visual Computer, and Computer-Aided Geometric Design, and is the editor-in-chief of computers & graphics, an international journal on computer graphics published by Pergamon Press.
From page 402...
... From 1980 to 1987, he was director of the executive board of Brown Boveri, Mannheim, and a member of the board of the corporation Brown Boveri; from 1988 to 1994, he was a member of the advisory board of Asea Brown Boveri AG, Mannheim; since 1991, he has been a member of the advisory board of ABB Kraftwerke AG. Gassert holds many posts in industry and science, including director of the advisory board of Henningsdorfer Stahl GmbH i.L., honorary senator of the Universities of Stuttgart and Mannheim, member of the German Science Council, chairman of the German Association of Technical-Scientific Societies (DVT)
From page 403...
... In 1967, he was appointed head of the newly created Department of Virus Research at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. Hofschneider has co-edited several scientific journals, such as Intervirology, Nucleic Acids Research, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, and Comprehensive Virology, and since 1985 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the medical weekly, Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift.
From page 404...
... He served as chairman of the Industrial Microbiology Subcommittee of the Science and Technology Joint US/USSR Committee under President Nixon, which involved nearly a dozen visits to Russia. In 1984, Humphrey chaired the Research Briefing Panel for the Office of Science and Technology Policy on "Chemical and Process Engineering for Biotechnology," a task that involved briefing many governmental agencies including OSTP, NSF, NBS, NIH, and Congress.
From page 405...
... Since 1972, he has been a professor of Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe and, since 1985, he has also been a director of the Computer Science Research Center at Karlsruhe. His research interests are in the areas of engineering databases technology and applications, with a more recent emphasis on constraint enforcement strategies and techniques, object-oriented modeling techniques, active databases, and the integration of telecommunications and database technologies.
From page 406...
... He is a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy, NASA's Advisory Committee on the International Space Station, the Critical Technologies Panel of the Competitiveness Policy Council, the American Physical Society's Physics Planning Committee, the Board of Directors of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute, the University of New Mexico College of Engineering Advisory Council, and the Coalition to Increase Minority Doctorates. He is on the selection committees for the National Academy of Engineering and the Department of Commerce National Medal of Technology; a member of DOE's Openness Advisory Panel; an ex officio member of DOE's Laboratory
From page 407...
... ; chairman of the technological advisory council of the Federal State of Rheinland-Pfalz; member of the committee of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation, Stuttgart; member of the board of the German Association of Technical-Scientific Societies (DVT) ; and member of the senate committee for applied research of the German Research Association (DFG)
From page 408...
... He has held key research positions at Xerox Corp., Bell Laboratories, and Sandia National Laboratories. Before joining SEMATECH in October 1990, he was group vice president and senior technical officer at Xerox Corporation in Stamford, Connecticut.


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