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Professor Volker Gruhn
Chair of Applied Telematics and e-Business,
Computer Science Department of University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Professor Volker holds the chair for Applied Telematics and e-Business at the Computer Science Department of University of Leipzig. His research interests are component-based software development, software architecture and distributed software processes. An application focus is on point-of-sale systems and always online solutions for mobile systems. He founded the consulting company adesso in 1997, which currently employs more than 160 persons. The main business of adesso is consulting in system integration and software development, process modelling and electronic business. Professor Gruhn was program chair of the European Workshop on Software Process Technology in 1998 and is currently member of several workshops and conferences (Workshop on Software Architecture, EUROMICRO Process Modelling Workshop, International Conference on the Software Process, Working Conference on Activity Coordination, DEXA Workshop on component-based development of large systems).
Dr. Rikio Maruta
Senior Executive Vice President and Vice-Chairman of the Board
SANGIKYO CORPORATION
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
Dr. Maruta has been with SANGIKYO since June 2002 in the position noted above. He is in charge of strategy building as well as technology development. He has been nurturing a software development team in SANGIKYO. Before joining SANGIKYO, he served as Senior Vice President of NEC America, Inc., Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A., from 1994 through 2002, responsible for NEC’s carrier business including fiber communication systems, radio/satellite communication systems, ATM switches and communication control systems for the North American network operators. His most significant business achievement in the US was the successful penetration into AT&T, the largest network operator in the US at those days. Under his leadership, NEC won the position of the sole supplier of 2.4 Gbps/10Gbps SONET/DWDM backbone communication systems, beating out Lucent Technologies, a spin off company from AT&T and one of the largest communication systems vendors at those days.
Professor Ernest Edmonds
Professor of Computation and Creative Media
University of Technology, Sydney
Ernest Edmonds is an international expert on human-computer interaction and, specifically, creativity. He is Professor of Computation and Creative Media at the University of Technology, Sydney where he runs a multi-disciplinary practice-based art and technology research group, the Creativity and Cognition Studios. He co-founded the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference series with Linda Candy and was part of the founding team for the ACM Intelligent User Interface conference series. He has been an invited speaker in, for example, the UK, France, the USA, Australia, Japan and Malaysia. Ernest Edmonds first used computers in his art practice in 1968. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to LA. He has more than 200 refereed publications in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity and art. He is General Editor of Knowledge-Based Systems and Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo journal’s Transactions.
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