Curriculum Vitae:

Born in Vienna, Austria. Study of Mathematics at the Universities of Vienna (Austria) and Calgary (Canada). System Analyst with the Government of Saskatchewan (Canada) in 1963. Mathematician-programmer with IBM Research in Vienna 1964-1966. Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Vienna 1965. Assistant and Associate Professor for Computer Science at the University of Calgary 1966-1971. Full Professor for Applied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 1971-1977, and Visiting Professor at SMU, Dallas, the University of Brasilia (Brazil) and the University of Waterloo, during the same period.

Full Professor at the Graz University of Technology since 1978. In addition, director of the Research Institute for Applied Information Processing of the Austrian Computer Society 1983-1998; chairman of Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media since 1988, director of the Institute for Hypermedia Systems of JOANNEUM RESEARCH since 1990, director of the AWAC (Austrian Web Application Center) of the ARCS (Austrian Research Centers) 1997-2000, member of the board of OCG (Österreische Computergesellschaft) 1979-2003, founder and scientific advisor of the KNOW Center (K+ Center), the first research centre on Knowledge Management in Austria. Since January 2004 Hermann Maurer is the first dean of the newly formed Faculty for Computer Science at the Graz University of Technology.

Adjunct Professor at Denver University 1984-1988; Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1993 (on leave from Graz), then Honorary Adjunct Professor and since May 2001 Honorary Research Fellow.

Since 2002 'Campus Graz 02' Captain (University College of the Styrian Chamber of Commerce), honorary title 'Visiting Professor' at the Danube University (Krems, Austria), Central European Evaluation Board Member WGLN (Wallenberg Global Learning Network); External Advisory Panel Member at Kuching University (Malysia) as of December 15, 2002 and Visiting Researcher at Edith Cowan University (Perth, Australia) from February till April 2003.

Main Research Interests:

• languages and their applications
• data structures and their efficient use
• telematic services
• computer networks
• computer assisted instruction
• computer supported new media hypermedia systems and applications
• electronic publications
• social implications of computers