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	Curriculum Vitae Field Description Birthday   30.09.1964   Place of birth   Hilden, Germany   Nationality   German   Study   1984-1990 Computer Science with subsidiary Electrical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen (Technical University of Aachen), Germany   Doctorate   1994-2000 Doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the University of Duisburg, Germany, in cooperation with the Research Center KFA Jülich, Germany   Vocational Development   1986 - now: CEO of a private limited liability Company "Ingenieurbüro Dr. Abel GmbH" for development, consultancy and project management.   Community Activities   Instructor for swimming and live saving at the German Live-Saving-Federation (DLRG).   Referee Activities   Information Sciences, published by Elsevier Science, Netherlands. Journal of Systems and Software, published by Elsevier Science, Netherlands.   Research Interests   Image Processing OpenGL medical visualisation systems for CT, MRT and PET data, DICOM and ANALYZE interfaces Direct Volume Rendering Programming of the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) by NVidia's Cg Connections: Prof. Dr. Rainer Köster, Institute for Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the Municipal Clinic Neuss, Germany Data Compression Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT) Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM) Lossless image compression Compression of protein and DNA data in the field of bio-informatics Connections: Dr. William Teahan, University of Wales, United Kingdom Object Oriented Development Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Programming with UML Design Patterns Software Process Modelling and Prototyping   Computer Experiences   Operating Systems Windows Unix, Linux Programming Languages Java C++ / C Pascal / Delphi Fortran Basic 6502/Z80/68000/80x86/PENTIUM Assembler Database Systems Oracle-, Sybase-, Interbase-SQL-Server DBase, Clipper, Paradox Libraries and Frameworks OpenGL Swing Standard Template Library (STL), zApp VCL Technical Emphasis Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Programming UML Design Patterns Software Engineering Data Structures and Algorithms Microprocessor systems Analog / Digital Converters   Memberships   ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)   GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.; German Association for Informatics)   Senior member IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)   IEEE Computer Society
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