Referenten: Speakers: Rainer Kuhlen

Home Page: http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/People/rk.html

Lectures/Workshops:

EU-Urheberrechtsrichtlinie und Folgen

Napsterisierung und Venterisierung von Wissen - Bausteine zu einer politischen Ökonomie des Wissens

Biography

Professional career: Student of philosophy, German literature and sociology at the University of Muenster (1964-1969); Assistant professor for philosophy at the University of Muenster (1969-1972); Postgraduate training in information science at the Center for Machine Documentation (ZMD) in Frankfurt (1972-1974); Lecturer at the Teaching Institute for Documentation in Frankfurt (1974-1979); PhD 1976 at the University of Regensburg; 1979 offer of professorships at the University of Koblenz and at the University of Saarbrücken; since 1980 Professor for Information Science at the University of Konstanz; 1984 offer of a professorship at the University of Hamburg; 1985 Honorary professorship funded by the Volkswagenstiftung; 1990 Research Reward for Technical Communication, ALCATEL/SEL Foundation; 1993/94 Honorary professorship for Interdisciplinary Studies at the TH Darmstadt; 2000/01 guest professorship at Humboldt University Berlin

Current professional activities: Co-editor of the following journals: Journal of Information Science, Nachrichten fuer Dokumentation, Information Processing & Management, Library Management; chief editor of the book series Schriften zur Informationswissenschaft (currently more than 30 vols.); member of the Board of the Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaft (German Society of Information Science - HI); director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Information/Electronic Markets and Information Engineering (IMIE) at the University of Konstanz; member of the German Commission for UNESCO, Chairperson of the German UNESCO Committee for Communications; German UNESCO Chair in Communications (ORBICOM); director of NETHICS e.V. (Information Ethics in the Net); member of numerous advisory boards for institutions in information politics and information economy.

Publications and projects: Numerous publications (books and articles) in the fields of information retrieval, computational linguistics, information science theory, text condensation, hypertext, information/electronic markets, information ethics, electronic communication forums. Numerous research and development projects since 1980 in the fields mentioned above, financed partially by public funding (BMFT/BMBF, DFG, EU etc.) and partially through joint projects with industrial partners.