Frank Kappe: Curriculum Vitae
September 2007
Current Address
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Mail: |
Institute for Information
Systems and Computer Media (IICM) |
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+43.316.873.5602 |
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Fax: |
+43.316.873.5699 |
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General
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Born: |
Springfield, Ohio,
U.S.A.; 10 August 1963 |
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Citizenship: |
Austria |
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Marital status: |
divorced, 2 children |
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Languages: |
German, English |
Education
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High School: |
Sept. 1973 - June 1981, II. Bundesrealgymnasium Graz. |
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Military Service: |
Oct. 1981 - May 1982. |
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University: |
Graz University of
Technology, Austria; Oct. 1982 - Mar. 1988. |
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M. Sc.: |
1988, Technical
Mathematics / Information Processing (Graz University of Technology) |
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Ph. D.: |
1991, Technical Sciences
(Graz University of Technology) |
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Venia Legendi: |
1996, Applied Informatics
(Graz University of Technology) |
Professional
Experience
- Nov.
1985 - Apr. 1988: Student Assistant ("Studienassistent")
at the Institutes for Information Processing Graz (IIG), Graz University
of Technology, Austria. Development
of the EDEN graphics editing environment.
- May
1988 - Dec. 1996: Research Associate ("Universitätsassistent")
at the Graz University of Technology, Austria.
- Oct.
1989 - May 1990: Director of research group "Software and
Graphics" at the Institutes for Information Processing Graz (IIG),
Graz University of Technology, Austria.
- July
1990 - Dec 1991: Technical director of software development at the
Institute for Multi-Media Information Systems (IMMIS), Joanneum
Research, Graz, Austria.
- June
1990 - Dec. 1996: Director of research group "Hypermedia" at the
Institutes for Information Processing and Computer Based New Media (IICM),
Graz University of Technology, Austria.
- Mar.
1993 - Apr. 1993: Research visit to the University of
Auckland, New Zealand.
- Jan.
1997 - Oct. 2005: Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director of Hyperwave Software Research & Development GmbH,
Graz
- Mar.
2000 - Oct. 2005: Member of the Executive Board of Hyperwave
AG, Munich (with subsidiaries in Austria, UK, and USA).
- Jan.
2006 - now: Styria-Professor for Innovative Media Technology, Graz
University of Technology.
Teaching Experience
- Seminar
concerning Metafiles and device-independent graphics interfaces,
Graz University of Technology, Austria,
1988/89; together with W. D. Fellner. - Computer
Graphics, Graz University of Technology, Austria,
1989/90. - Multimedia
Information Systems, Graz University of
Technology, Austria,
1991/92, 1992/93. - Seminar
on Multimedia and Hypermedia, University of Auckland, New Zealand,
1993; together with H. Maurer. - Networking
Protocols, Graz University of Technology, Austria,
1993/94, 1994/95; together with G. Greiner; 1995/96; together with J. Faschingbauer. - Systems
Architecture, Graz University of Technology,
Austria,
1994, 1995, 1996. - Informatik 1,
Graz University of Technology, Austria,
1996/97. - Introduction
to Structured Programming, Graz University of
Technology, Austria,
2006/07. - Software
Development Practical Exercises,
Graz University of Technology, Austria,
2007. - Media
Perspectives, FH Joanneum
University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria,
2007. - (Co-)Supervisor
of the following master's theses:
- Faschingbauer, Hansjörg: Volltextsuche
in großen Hypermediasystemen (1993).
- Andrews,
Keith: Distributed EDEN: Object-oriented design of the EDEN kernel as
a distributed system (1994).
- Derler, Christian: The World-Wide
Web Gateway to Hyper-G: Using a Connectionless Protocol to Access
Session-Oriented Services (1995).
- Marschall, Bernhard: Integration of
Digital Video into Distributed Hypermedia Systems (1995)
- Amtmann, Philipp: Teletext
Internet Gateway (1996).
- Essl, Georg: Possibilities for
a Hyper-G-WWW-Gateway (1996).
- Pichler, Peter: Integration of
Digital Images into Distributed Hypermedia Systems (1996).
- Reisinger, Bruno: Integration of SQL
Databases in Hyper-G (1996).
- Wermescher, Herwart:
Analyse des ETSI-Standards ETS 300 382 mit Beruecksichtigung
der Integrationsmoeglichkeiten in bestehende
Netzwerke und Empfehlungen fuer die
Weiterentwicklung (1996).
- Zwantschko, Bernhard: An
Investigation of Possibilities for Hyper-G offered by Java (1996).
- Schmid, Alfons:
A mail archive server on top of Hyper-G (1996).
- Kammerhofer, Martin: Secure
Money Transfer in the Internet (1997).
- Huber,
Christian: Implementation of a Rendering Engine for different Document
Type Definitions (1997).
- Körbler, Günther:
A Z39.50 Gateway to the Hyperwave Server
(1997).
- Vollmer,
Till: An Object-oriented Application
Development Framework for Hyperwave (1998).
- Gireesan, Ramaswamy:
Developing a Web Based Training System: Data Modeling Approach
(1999).
- Hartner, Robert: Security concept
for a company with elevated requirements of protection (2000).
- Moritz,
Markus: Design And Implementation Of An
Enterprise Portal Toolkit (2000).
- Farmer,
Arthur: Evaluation of several Servlet
Architectures (2001).
- Wiederkehr, Markus: Wireless Access
to Business Information Using Mobile Communication Devices (2003).
- Karner, Harald: User Interfaces
of Knowledge Management Systems - Assistance in Software Development by
the Use of Specific Design Methods (2003).
- Brandl, Stephan: Helpdesk
Automation (2003).
- Putzhuber, Werner: From eLearning to
Knowledge Management - Bridging the Gap (2003).
- Rohrer,
Werner: Competitive Intelligence: Development of a method for analysing Knowledge Management software referring to
technical requirements (2003).
- Kern, Roman: Document Management Using
Web Protocols - WebDAV
(2004).
- Höller, Klaus: User Interfaces
for Collaborative Enterprise Content Management on Hand-Held Devices
(2005).
- Zenz, Daniel: Development of a video community platform with support of mobile
devices (2007).
- (Co-)Supervisor
of the following PH.D. theses:
- Walcher, Wofgang:
Design Aspects of Information Systems for Remote Sensing Image Data
(1996).
- Rehatschek, Herwig:
Design of a distributed image data archive based on an ATM network backbone
with planetary image data as an example data set (1997).
- Triebnig, Gerhard: An
Interoperability Standard for Earth Observation Metadata Services
(1997).
- Schäffler, Jodok:
A computer simulation system for design studies of a reseau scanner with linear array CCDs (1997).
- Niederl, Franz: Interactive
WWW-based Tools for Remote Processing of Remote Sensing Data (1999).
- Krottmaier, Harald: Aspects of Modern
Electronic Publishing Systems (2002).
- Rollett, Herwig:
Knowledge Management Technolgies in Context
(2002).
- Dietinger, Thomas: Aspects of
E-Learning Environments (2003).
Grants and Academic Research Projects
- 1987
- 1988: New Graphics Standards; Research Project of the Austrian
Ministry of Science (Grant #606.505; with W. D. Fellner).
Development
of the PIC (Picture
Interchange Coding) Metafile format.
- 3/90
- 12/92: Hyper-G; Research Project of the Austrian Ministry of
Science (Grant #613.531/5-26/90; with H. Maurer). Development of a
powerful and large hypermedia system as infrastructure for universities
and other applications; at the Institute for Foundations of Information
Processing and Computer-based new Media (IICM) of the Technical University
Graz, and the Institute for Multi-Media Information Systems (IMMIS) of Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria.
- 1/91
- 6/91: HBS-II; Development of a Hypermedia Base System (a
prototype of Hyper-G); at the Institute for Multi-Media Information
Systems (IMMIS) of Joanneum Research, Graz,
Austria.
- 12/92
- 7/93: GENIUS Guide and Directory Service (GDS); Phase 1: Definition
and Prototyping; ESA/ESRIN contract no. 10172/92/HGE-I; Project for
the European Space Agency (ESA), together with partners from Italy (Intecs Sistemi SpA and Bull Italy, Rome) and France (Matra Marconi Space, Toulouse).
- 8/93
- 06/95: GENIUS Guide and Directory Service (GDS); Phase 2: Delivery
and Commisioning; Project for the European
Space Agency (ESA), together with Intecs Sistemi SpA, Rome.
- 12/94
- 01/96: Hyperlink Generation in Large Collections of Documentation;
Project for the European Space Agency (ESA), together with Siemens PSE,
Vienna.
- 6/95
- 8/95: Independent CEO Concept Design Study: Blue Team;
Consultancy for JRC (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission),
with EOS (Earth Observation Sciences Ltd., UK) as prime contractor.
- 3/96
- 6/96: Expert Support for the CEO Enabling Services System
Specification; Consultancy for JRC (Joint Research Centre of the
European Commission), Ispra, Italy.
- 8/02 - 7/04: eKnowledge
Objects; FFF (Forschungsförderungsfonds Austria) Project #805.979
Industry Projects
- 1997-2000:
Knowledge Marketplace; An innovative Knowledge Management system
(with: BMW)
- 1998-1999:
NetInfo; Supplier Information System and
Intranet (with: Siemens ICN)
- 1999-2000:
Sales Portal; An extranet for sales and partners (with:
Fujitsu-Siemens)
- 1998-2003: DIZ MedienPort; Search
and retrieval in 12 million news articles (with: Werum, Süddeutscher Verlag)
- 2003:
MonAir; Intranet for distributed manifacturing of aircraft (with: EADS)
- 2003-2004:
Interactive Knowledge Center; Automated question answering (with:
KPMG, Cisco, ESKOM)
- 2004:
SAP Navigatotor; A tool to simplify
navigation in SAP data (with: rit, Stadtwerke Detmold)
- 2001-2003:
McWisdom; A knowledge management and
multimedia communication solution (with: MCCann-Erickson
New York)
- 2002-2005:
Horizontal Fusion; Integration of knowledge from various US
intelligence agencies, research project funded by the US DoD (with: BEA, NGIC, SPAWAR).
- 2002:
WebQS; A service and support portal
(with: Toshiba TEC, b-next AG)
- 2002:
WebLearningSystem; A large-scale (11,000
users) online training system (with: Telekom Austria)
- 2003
- 2005: LNI; A Managed Learning Environment to all schools in
Northern Ireland (with: Classroom 2000, Hewlett Packard, Amaze).
- 2004: QMS; Quality Management Solution (with: Tiroler Landeskrankenanstalten)
- 2004:
Schoogle; An ASP-based eLearning offering
for Austrian schools (with: Know-Center, Utomi
AG)
Prizes and
Awards
- "Best
of Show" and "Best Internet
Product" Awards: Byte Magazine, CeBIT
1997
- "European
IST Prize": European Commision,
1997
- "Fast Forward Award": SFG; Winner and nominee for Austrian "Staatspreis für Innovation";
2001
- "Trend-Setting
Product of 2003": KM World, 2003
- "Technology fast 50": Germany, 2003
- "Trend-Setting
Product of 2004": KM
World, 2004
Patents
- US
Patent #5,805,824: A method of propagating data through a distributed
information system; filed Feb.28, 1996, granted Sept. 8, 1998.
- European
Patent Application #02 007 742.6: Data Processing System; With: Sabol, Vedran and Kienreich, Wolfgang. Filed April 5, 2002.
- US
Patent Application #20030231209: Data Processing System; With: Sabol, Vedran and Kienreich, Wolfgang. Filed April 4, 2003.
Other Activities
- 1988
- 1996: Work in various university committees.
- 1989
- 1996: Member of the Austrian Graphics Standards Committee (part of ISO
TC 97/SC 24) and national point of contact for WG3 (metafiles and
device-interfaces).
- 1989 - 1996: Member of the ACM
- 1991 - 1996: Member of the IEEE
- 1993 - 1997: Member of the Internet Society
- 1994:
Local Organizer of the First Eurographics
Symposium on Multimedia held in Graz, Austria, June 6-9, 1994.
- 1995
- 1997 Secretary of the Web Society.
- 1998
- 2000: Advisory Committee member of the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
member of the W3C XML Linking WG.
- 2001
- 2004: "Vorstand" in the "AK
Knowledge Engineering & Management" of the BITKOM.
- 2000 - 2005: Member of the "VÖSI"
(Verband der Österreichischen Software-Industrie).
- 2001
- 2005: Board Member of the Know-Center.
- 2004
- 2005: Member of the SIF (Service Improvement Forum) of Classroom 2000
(Northern Ireland).
- 2006
- now: Supervisory Board ("Aufsichtsrat") Member of the Know-Center.
- 2006 - now: Academic Member of the Vienna Telecommunicatiosn Center (ftw. ).
- 2007 - now: Conference Chair
of the I-media conference series.
- Member of the program committee of various
conferences, symposia, and workshops.