TCDE Chair Candidate Erich Neuhold

Erich J. Neuhold is currently Honorary (Adjunct) Professor for Computer Science at the University of Vienna and associated with the Fakultaet fuer Informatik. Here he is involved with structured and unstructured multimedia Databases and Web-Information Systems and questions of Semantic enrichment for effective Information Interoperability and Mining. He is also investigating issues of interoperability, security and privacy as they arise in the WEB 2.0 environment and all the social communities whether private or professional. Until April 2005 he was Professor of Computer Science at the University of Technology in Darmstadt and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI) in Darmstadt, Germany an institution of about 120 persons involved in all aspects of Information systems and Internet Services. A number of spin-offs were started during his leadership to exploit the results of IPSIs research. He is or has been on the Steering Committees of the main Data Base Conferences VLDB, ICDE and also the main Digital Library Conferences JCDL, ECDL and ICADL. He is or has been a member of various editorial boards and currently serves as one of the Chairs of the IJDL Editorial Board. He is a Fellow of IEEE, USA and of the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, Germany. He has published four books and about 200 papers.