Keynote

Towards Human Centric Communication
Adam Wolisz, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Speaker information:
Adam Wolisz (Diploma in engineering, 1972, Doctoral Degree, 1976, Habilitation 1983 - Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice) works since 1980 on computer networks and distributed systems. He has been with Polish Academy of Sciences (until 1990), and later with the Research Institute GMD-Fokus in Berlin (1990-1993). Since 1993 he has joined the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) where he is chaired Professor for Telecommunication Networks and since 2001 Executive Director of the Institute for Telecommunication Systems. He has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and COmputer Science in the period 2001- 2003. Since Summer 2005 he is also Adjunct Professor at the Dept. EE&CS, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in architectures and protocols of communication networks. SInce several years he is focusing mainly on wireless/mobile networking and sensor networks.
More details, list of his papers and information on his research envoronment is available under http://mail.tkn.tu-berlin.de