Professor Laszlo Böszörmenyi

Laszlo Böszörmenyi is a full professor and the head of the Institute of Information Technology at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE and OCG, and deputy head of the Austrian delegation to the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG, the ISO/IEC JTC1/ SC29 WG11). In his research, he is currently focusing on Distributed Multimedia Systems, with special emphasis on content adaptation, video delivery infrastructures, advanced video coding and multimedia languages. He is the author of several books and regularly publishes in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. In addition, he has recently organized several international conferences and workshops. He was for a few years vice-president of the Austrian Society for the History of Computer Science (OEGIG). He organized the MEDICHI 2007 Workshop on Methodic and Didactic Challenges of the History of Informatics.