Advisory Board

Jörg Eberspächer is senior member IEEE and member ACM and VDE, and member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA". From 1997- 1999 he was member of the board and from 2000-2002 chairman of the German Information Technology Society (VDE/ITG). From 2000-2002 he was member of the board of VDE. He has been chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) HHI, Berlin, member of the scientific advisory board of the Fraunhofer Institut for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin, member of the scientific advisory board of the Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.), Vienna, Austria, member of the scientific advisory board of the Wissenschaftliches Institut für Kommunikationsdienste (WIK), Bad Honnef, member of the scientific advisory board of the Lakeside Labs, Klagenfurt, Austria, and member of the board of the MÜNCHNER KREIS.

Reinhard Goebl graduated in mathematics (and sports) at the University of Vienna, with a master of natural sciences in 1970. Until 1986 he headed a research group for CAD/CAM at the University of Technology in Vienna, with numerous projects in geometry, computer graphics and teaching mathematics and CAD/CAM for application engineers (civil construction, mechanical design and production, flexible automation). He joined the AT Fed. Ministry for Science and Research BMwf in 1986, being responsible for various fields of research coordination within information technology, including the management of several national research programmes (IT, nano, industrial technologies, aerospace) and contributions to international research (EU ESPRIT-ICT, NMP, space, AAL; global IMS etc.). He was AT delegate in the EU Programme IST. Today he is head of the department BMvit III/i5 "IT, industrial technologies (incl. nano), aeronautics and space technolo­gies". This department is responsible for national and international research coordination, including ICT, AAL, Artemis, Eniac and the Austrian IT-Research Programme "FIT-IT" (Embedded Systems. Semantic Systems and Services, Systems on Chip incl. Accompanying Measures), the AT Nano Initiative and the AT Space Programme, ESA and others, focusing on the optimization of national strengths and of Austrian contributions to... [More]

Hermann Kopetz received his PhD in physics "sub auspiciis praesidentis" from the University of Vienna, Austria in 1968. After eight years in Industry he accepted in 1978  an appointment as a Professor for Computer Process Control at the Technical University of West-Berlin, moving to the Technical University of Vienna in 1992. From 1990 to 1992 Kopetz was chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and from 1996 to 1998 Chairman of the  IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance. Kopetz is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Science and is currently a member of the Information Society Advisory Group (ISTAG), advising the European Commission in Brussels in the domain of Information Technology.  Kopetz is the chief architect of the Time-Triggered Architecture for dependable Embedded Systems. He has published a widely used textbook on Real-Time Systems, more than 150 papers and more than twenty patents on the topic of dependable embedded systems. Kopetz is a Fellow of the IEEE and received the IEEE Computer Society 2003 Technical Achievement Award with the citation: For outstanding contributions to the field of safety-critical real-time computing. In June 2007 he received the honorary degree of Dr. honoris causa from the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.

Klaus Pseiner received his PdD degree in biology (ecology) at the University of Vienna. After two years as student assistant at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna, he changed to Dornier GmbH (planning department) in 1984. 1985 he worked as project leader for biological utilisation studies for the Austrian Raumfahrt- und Systemtechnik GmbH. In 1989 Klaus Pseiner took over the strategic technology planning of ESA/ESTEC. As director of Austrian Space Agency (ASA) in 1998 he was responsible  for the development of technical and programmatic core competences and for the constitution of ASA to be programm agency in the area of high technology. Klaus Pseiner is currently the Manager of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) in Vienna.

Erwin Toplak studied Electrotechnology at the Technical University of Graz (1979-1984) and worked as Product Engineer for Digital Signal Processors at AMS in Graz. At the company Röderstein in Landshut/Germany he worked as Application Engineer for Hybrid Circuitry and in the years 1987-1991 as Application and Sales Engineer for Complex Measuring Systems at Tektronix in Vienna/Austria. In the year 1991 he changed to Kapsch AG in Vienna, working as Marketing & Sales Manager in the field of Ind. Electronics. Erwin Toplak was Senior Manager of Traffic Control Systems (1994-1999) and became Director of Traffic Control Systems at Kapsch AG in Vienna in 1999. Since 2002 he's Member of the Board at Kapsch TrafficCom AG in Vienna.