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Oliver Günther received his Diplom in Industrial Engineering from
the University of Karlsruhe in 1984, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Between 1988
and 1993, he held research and teaching positions at ICSI in Berkeley,
at U.C. Santa Barbara, and at FAW, a computer science research laboratory
in Ulm, Germany. Since 1993, he has been Professor and Director of the
Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt University in Berlin. Since
1996, he has also been Chair of the Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate Program
in Distributed Information Systems.
Professor Günther has published widely in the areas of database
management, knowledge-based systems, geographic and environmental information
systems, as well as distributed information management. His most recent
book, ``Environmental Information Systems,'' will be published by Springer-Verlag
in early 1998. He was one of the founders of the SSD symposium series on
spatial databases, and he serves as a consultant to government and industry
on issues relating to environmental data management. Professor Günther
held visiting faculty positions at the University of Cape Town, at U.C.
Berkeley, and the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
in Paris.
Katja Andresen
Fri Nov 14 15:18:00 MET 1997