STI INNSBRUCK - Key Persons
Dr. Adrian Mocan started with me as a PhD student in Galway and it has been a pleasure to host him as an employee for a number of years in Innsbruck. Coming from Romania he is proof of the added value of the new member states of the European Union. His interest has been in mediation, a topic that qualifies for a life time obsession.
Dr. Michal Zaremba is one of the founding scientists in the field semantic Web services and a cornerstone of the Web service execution environment (WSMX), an architecture for implementing this vision. His leaving will be a sad loss, but this is more than compensated by gaining him for seekda, a spin-off from the institute that specialises in the commercial exploitation of publicly available Web services.
A remarkable person in many respects. He managed to publish a VLDB paper, he lets boats sink in Guadeloupe, and finally there is a strong rumour that he invented WSMO. We wish him good luck for his future career which has brought him to SINTEF in Norway after his PhD in Innsbruck.