Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:45:51 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 22:38:40 GMT Content-length: 3978
I was born in February 1971 in Frankfurt/M, Germany. After 13 years of schooling I got my Abitur from the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium, Maintal, majoring in physiscs and math.
After one year of civil service, where I served as a helper for handicapped persons as well as working in a kindergarten for handicapped children, I started my studies at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. The Department of Computer Science (Technische Fakultät) offers an interesting new program, called Computer Science in Natural Sciences (Naturwissenschaftliche Informatik), which tries to combine applications in physics, biology and chemistry with the theory of computer science.
My main field of interest lies in the field of artificial intelligence, and in particular in building intelligent agents. Here at the University of Washington, Prof. Oren Etzioni built such an agent, the Internet Softbot, which helps the user using the resources of the Internet more efficiently.
I worked for two years as a teaching assistant (Tutor) in the computer science department in Bielefeld, before I joined the programming group of the University Library, where I created user applications for DOS/Windows and set up a World-Wide Web server in 1995.
In January 1994 I applied for a scholarship from the Fulbright Commission,
and got finally accepted for full-tuition / partial-living-expenses grant in
spring 1995.
I work here together with Jonathan Shakes and Professor Etzioni on
After this year as a visiting graduate student in the department of computer science at the University of Washington, I am about to finish my master degree (Diplom) back in Bielefeld, Germany.
I am planning to go abroad again after recieving my degree in Germany, preferably to Japan, where my girlfriend is currently working for Leo Burnett Advertisement in Tokyo.
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