Biography

Prof Dr. Alexander Schill’s major research interests are distributed systems and middleware, high performance communication and multimedia, and advanced teleservices such as teleteaching and teleworking. He holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and received a Dr.h.c. from University National of Asuncion, Paraguay. Prof. Schill also worked with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, and has been involved in various industry cooperations. He is the author or co-author of a large number of publications on computer networking, including several books.