INNOV is a Multi-Conference composed of four concurrent conferences: ICEHST, ICGREEN, ICITIE and ICTEL. These four conferences are always co-located and held in parallel.
Keynote lectures are plenary sessions and can be attended by all INNOV participants.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS LIST
Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Title: We Have Seen Nothing Yet
Bart Nieuwenhuis, University of Twente / K4B Innovation, The Netherlands
Mihail Konstantinov, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy / IICREST, Bulgaria
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Hermann Maurer Graz University of Technology Austria |
Brief Bio
Professor Dr. Hermann Maurer is Professor Emeritus at Graz University of Technology. He started his career at the University of Calgary as Assistant and Associate Professor, was appointed full professor at Karlsruhe just before he turned 30, and has been now Professor and Dean in Computer Science at Graz University of Technology since 1978, with some interruptions, like guest-professorships of more than a year at Denver University, University of Auckland, and shorter visits to Edith Cowan University in Perth, SMU in Dallas, Waterloo, Brasilia and others. Chair of the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea, "The Academy of Europe" since April 2009, and receiver of many national and international distinctions, Professor Maurer is author of over 650 papers and 20 books, founder of a number of companies, supervised some 60 Ph.D. and over 400 M.Sc. students and was leader of numerous multimillion Euro projects. More about him than you ever want to read under http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/maurer
Abstract
I will first present some unusual arguments that will show that we are not in for small changes in the near future, but for massive restructuring of how we live, think and learn. I will then explain in what way the strong convergence of cell phones and PCs is likely to develop. I will show clips of protoypes of new devices that overcome the small screen-size of cell phones and their small keyboards. I will then explain how dramatically this will change society and education: we will have with us a permanent powerful assistant. This brings both great benefits and great dangers. I will also address the issue whether large amounts of information help us or rather brainwash us and influence our decision making in a negative way. I will show at least one example that will surprise the audience. I will then argue that no matter how much one is using modern information technology oneself, one does not react the same way when compared to "digital natives", i.e. people (like our students in university) that have grown up in such new environments. I will report on two surprising recent experiments that seem to prove this point conclusively. Finally, I show that the statement we always hear that the value of technology is ambivalent (like "a hammer can be used to drive in a nail or to kill a person by hitting the head") is not even close to the truth. Rather, some technologies are inherently good, others inherently bad, and many in between. I will present a number of examples to verify this provocative idea and show how computers and networks are classified if one looks at them that way.
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Bart Nieuwenhuis University of Twente / K4B Innovation The Netherlands |
Brief Bio
Bart Nieuwenhuis is part-time professor at the School of Management and Governance at the University of Twente. He is member of the Research Group Information Systems and Change Management (ICMS), holding the chair in QoS of Telematics Systems. He is working as advisor and consultant for his own consultancy firm K4B Innovation.
His research focuses on generic service provisioning platforms including Quality of Service mechanisms. Application domains comprise telemedicine as well as billing and payment services. His research interests include service innovation and business modelling. Bart Nieuwenhuis supervises PhD students and publishes scientific articles conference papers on services provisioning platforms and middleware technologies for Quality of Service and Context Awareness.
Bart Nieuwenhuis is chairman of the innovation-driven research programme Generic Communication, part of R&D programmes funded by the Ministry of Economic Affaires. For K4B Innovation, Bart Nieuwenhuis works as an advisor to The Netherlands ICT Research and Innovation Authority. He was one of the initiators of EXSER, a centre of service innovation in The Netherlands. This centre is currently founded and is expected to start in the second half of 2008. The centre is sponsored by various large, innovative service companies and governmental organizations in The Netherlands. Before joining the ISCM group, Bart Nieuwenhuis was part-time full professor at the Architecture and Services of Network Applications (ASNA) group within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science (EEMCS) of the University of Twente. He joined the ASNA group in Twente after a period of five years at the University of Groningen, where he was Tele-Informatics professor at the Computer Science Faculty. Before starting his own company, he worked more than 20 years for KPN Research, the R&D facility of KPN, the telephony and Internet market leader in The Netherlands. He served as manager of R&D departments and Head of Strategy of KPN Research. Bart Nieuwenhuis worked on behalf of KPN for the European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications (EURESCOM) in Heidelberg and was leader of various international, cooperative projects of European public network operators. Bart Nieuwenhuis holds a PhD in Computer Science and a MSc (cum laude) and BSc in Electrical Engineering, all from the University of Twente.
Abstract
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Mihail Konstantinov University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy / IICREST Bulgaria |
Brief Bio
Mihail Konstantinov is a Full Professor in Mathematics with the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), Bulgaria, Vice-Chancellor of UACEG (1999-2003), Member of scientific councils and commissions, Member of the Board of IICREST. He has authored 30 books and over 500 scientific papers. He has participated in international scientific projects of EU and NATO and realized research and lecturing visits in British, German and French universities. Prof. Konstantinov has been Member and Vice Chair of the Central Election Commission of Bulgaria and Voting coordinator of OSCE (1997-) as well as the Bulgarian representative at the Council of Europe on electronic voting. In addition to his scientific publications, he has authored more than 300 articles in Bulgarian editions devoted to social and political issues with emphasis on election practice and legislation.
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