Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Radermacher, Dir. Research Institute Application Oriented Knowledge Processing (FAW), Ulm, Germany

Franz Josef Radermacher is the scientific director of the FAW (Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing) Ulm and also has a faculty position for Data Bases / Artificial Intelligence at the University of Ulm. Before, he was Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Passau.

Prof. Radermacher holds Doctoral degrees in Mathematics from the Technical University Aachen and in Economics from the University (TH) Karlsruhe; his habilitation in mathematics was effected at the TH Aachen. Since 1995 member of the Information Society Forum of the European Commission (since 1997 chairman of Working Group 4 “Sustainable Development“ and member of the Steering Committee). Same responsibility within the Forum 2000 of the German Government since 1996.

Since 1996 member of the expert group INFO2000 of the European Commission. Since 1996 member of the Strategic Requirements Board for the 5th Framework Programme of the European Commission. 1996/97 chairman of the AKI. Since 1997 Deputy Speaker of the SFB 527 “Integration of symbolic and subsymbolic information processing in adaptive sensomotoric systems“ of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 1997 Scientific Award of the GMÖOR (German Society for Mathematics, Economics and Operations Research).

1997 Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the EXPO 2000 on the topics “Future of the Past“ and „The 21st century“. 2000 Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Housing. 2000 Member of the Task Force “Global Society Dialogue“ of the EU Information Society Forum.