| Wolf-Gideon Bleek graduated in
computer science and holds a doctoral degree in computer science in
the field of "software infrastructure development". In 1997 he joined
the Informatics Department of the University of Hamburg, Germany as a
research assistant. Since 2001 he has held a position equivalent to
assistant professor at the Software Engineering Group. He has several
years of experience in constructing and designing object-oriented
software in an industrial context, most notably in the
telecommunication business sector. Moreover, he frequently works as a
consultant for software development projects. His main research
interests include web-application development, infrastructure
development, web-based learning systems and application service
providing. He is involved in teaching object-oriented application
development at the undergraduate and graduate level. Recent research
projects include the development of a nation-wide web-portal for
students in Germany, the development of a web-based learning
environment for project-based work, the development of a city
web-portal and the establishment of an infrastructure for a newly
founded university.
For the winter semester of 2004 he is a visiting
scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle and at Microsoft
Research, Redmond. He is co-author of the book "Object-Oriented
Construction Handbook" (Morgan Kaufman, 2004) and he is author of a
number of programming and computing textbooks. As coordinator of the
"Softwaretechnik Center" he is responsible for establishing and
managing close co-operation with local companies to ensure technology
transfer.
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