Welcome to Klaus Brunnstein's International Home Page
Curriculum Vitae, Activities, Areas of Interest
- Name:
- Dr. Klaus Brunnstein
- Academic Position:
- Professor for Applications of Informatics
- Address:
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- Faculty for Informatics
University of Hamburg
Vogt-Koelln-Str.30
D-22527 Hamburg
Tel: +49-40-42883-2406 (2405: Secretariat: Mrs. Leuschner)
Fax: +49-40-42883-2226
Email: brunnstein@exvtc.de
- Born:
- May 25, 1937, Cologne
- Studies:
- Physics & Mathematics at Universities of
Marburg (1957-1960),
Muenster (1960) and Hamburg (1961-1964)
- Diploma 1962:
- Theoretical (High Energy) Physics
(Asymptotic Behaviour of Nuclear Form Factors)
- Dissertation 1966:
- Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
(Computational model of propeller and its
interaction with ship wake and rudder)
Academic career:
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- 1964-1973:
- Computer Center, German Electron Accelerator (DESY): mainframe operating system
(coupling IBM/360-75 and /360-65) with minicomputer (DEC) network,
optimization of computing-intense application programs;
development of library information system (High Energy Physics Index).
- 1969-1971:
- Cofounder, Faculty for Informatics, Hamburg University
- 1973:
- Professor for Application of Informatics, Hamburg University
Special areas:
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- 1973-1980:
- Computer-Aided Instruction, Medical Informatics,
Applications in Sciences,
Economic Applications, Social Implications of Informatics
- Since 1980:
- Data Protection, Computer and Network Security,
Incident and Risk Analysis of IT Systems
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Informatics; Computers, Culture and Media
- 1988:
- Foundation of Virus Test Center (VTC)
- 1989:
- First (2 year) course on IT Security and Incident Analysis
International cooperation:
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Active contributions in IFIP: the "International Federation for Information Processing"
1976: German representative in IFIP TC-9
"Relationship between Computer and Society"
1976: Founding chairman WG 9.2 "Social Accountability"
1990-1992: Chairman IFIP TC-9 (1st term)
1993-1995: Chairman IFIP TC-9 (2nd term)
1999-...: German representative in IFIP
2001: elected IFIP Trustee
2000: elected IFIP Vice President
2002: elected (14th) IFIP President (term: 2002-2004)
Major International Conference activities (Program/Stream Chair etc) :
1989: Opportunities and Risks of AI Systems, Hamburg, 1989
1992: Conference on Social Impact, IFIP World Computer Congress 1992, Madrid
1994: Conference on Social Impact, IFIP World Computer Congress 1994,Hamburg
1996: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Society (KnowRight), Wien 1996
1998: Intellectual Property Rights (KnowRight 2), IFIP World Computer Congress 1998, Vienna-Budapest, 1998
2000: Intellectual Property Rights (KnowRight 3) and InfoEthics, Wien, September 2000
2002: Human Choice and Computers (HCC-6), IFIP World Computer Congress2002, Montreal
2003: World IT Forum (WITFOR) August 2003, Vilnius/Lithuania
Membership:
- GI (German Society for Informatics)
member of presidial board (1996-2001)
For more details concerning faculty and society work, family and personal interests:
see German version of homepage.
{Last updated: February 25, 2003 KBru.}