INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WEB ENGINEERING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Doctoral Consortium Chair
Dr. Jürg von Känel from the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York, is the senior manager of the Human Centric Tools group and also manages the relationship for IBM Research to the banking industry.
He studied math and computer science at ETHZ (Swiss Federal Polytechnicum, in Zürich) and holds a Masters in Mathematics (1986) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1991) from ETHZ. He joined IBM in 1985 in Zärich Switzerland, and has worked in application development and computer science research. In 1991 he moved to the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in the US, where he took on the development of a multimedia messaging system and contributed to the MIME and IMAP mail standards. In 1998 he took over the management of several Internet multimedia projects around the topic of 'media enabling e-business' and helped advancing the state of the art in the MPEG-4 and SMILE composite media standards arena. In 2000, he has taken on the management of the next web interfaces area focused on Experience Services and Interaction Patterns. Since 2004 he is leading the Human Centric Tools group focused on "Tools for the rest of us" - empowering business users through social computing, collaboration, end-user programming, business rules and policy authoring and decision making.
Since 2001 he is also the relationship manager for the IBM Research division to the banking industry, and since 2006 to all of Financial Services. In this capacity he is driving IBM Research's thought leadership on how technology impacts the financial services industries and vice-versa drives the research agenda to address issues of importance to the banking sector. As part of his line management responsibility he is driving issues around multi-channel customer interactions, customer modeling and conversational marketing, as well as collaborative technologies for mobile workforces and customers. Recently he has initiated an Enterprise Risk & Compliance Framework research effort focused primarily on the banking industry and is leading this project across all of IBM Research. This ERM Framework led to the Treasury and Risk magazine naming Juerg as one of the 100 most influential people in finance (see http://www.treasuryandrisk.com/issues/2006_06/careers/536-1.html).
In his scarce spare time he and his wife are inventors, designers and makers of wooden, mechanical puzzles (http://www.woodpuzzles.com, http://www.research.ibm.com/BurrPuzzles). Other hobbies include photography, hiking, skiing and swimming.
Job Titles:
- Politecnico Di Milano, Italy
Job Titles:
- Politecnico Di Milano, Italy
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chairman of the International Society for Web Engineering / Professor at the Department of Informatics, Chemnitz University of Technology
- Professor of Computer Science at Chemnitz University of Technology
Martin Gaedke is a full professor of Computer Science at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany and owner of the professorship for Distributed and Self-organizing Computer Systems (VSR).
Prior to that position, he was a senior scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and managing and leading the IT-Management and Web Engineering research group at the Institute of Telematics at the University of Karlsruhe. He also managed Web projects and consulting activities with focus on Internet and WWW technologies at the Telecooperation Office, a third-party funded know-how transfer group.
Gaedke's research interests focus on Web engineering, software engineering, and systems engineering and is driven by evolution, federation, and reuse as principles for building distributed systems. His research agenda is reflected by the Mission and Vision statements of his group VSR
Prof. Gaedke is the chairman of the International Society for Web Engineering, Managing Editor of the Journal of Web Engineering (JWE), and member of the editorial boards of Journals on eLearning and Web Information Systems. He has published more than 90 scientific papers in international conferences, journals, and books. Gaedke was co-author of one of the first papers on Web Engineering (WWW6 conference in 1997).
Within his scientific activities, he was Program Co-Chair of the 5th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2005) and chaired the Web Engineering tracks at the WWW2002, WWW2003, WWW2004, and WWW2008 conferences. He has been serving on more than 100 program committees for national and international workshops and conferences.
Martin Gaedke obtained a Diploma's degree in computer science in 1997 and a doctoral degree in engineering, on the subject of "Component-based technology for development and evolution of applications in the WWW", in 2000, both from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Richard Schwartz has repeatedly created and led new organizations to innovate and develop software which has had significant impact on the market. Most recently, Schwartz has been Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Technology for Openwave, responsible for strategic directions and mergers/acquisitions. He joined Openwave as a result of the acquisition of his former company, SoloMio, where he was CEO. Prior to founding SoloMio, he was senior vice president of technology at Vignette Corporation. He joined Vignette in June 1999 via the acquisition of his company, Diffusion, where he was founder and CEO. Prior to Diffusion, he was chief technology officer and senior vice president of technology for Borland International during the period of revenue growth from $30M to $650M. At Borland, Schwartz was responsible for overall product and technology strategy. From 1990-93 at Borland, Richard Schwartz created and developed the pan-European business and the Paris-based European Development Center. Schwartz joined Borland via the acquisition of his company Ansa Software. He co-founded Ansa Software and was the co-creator of Paradox, the first relational database software that was widely used by business professionals and sold over 10 million copies.
Schwartz holds a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA. After completing his PhD, he was a visiting professor in Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and then served as senior computer scientist at Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) prior to founding his first company. He is the author of numerous patents and publications and has served on a variety of industry and corporate advisory boards. He is current Board member of two technology companies and two startup incubators, in both the United States and Israel.