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François
Flückiger, Director of the CERN School of Computing, is Technology Liaison
Officer for Information Technologies at CERN and Manager of the CERN
openlab for DataGrid applications. Before joining CERN in 1978,
he was employed for five years by SESA in Paris. At CERN, he has been in charge
of external networking for more than 12 years and held positions in
infrastructure and application networking, including the management of
CERN's World-Wide Web team after the departure of the Web inventor Tim
Berners-Lee. He is an adviser to the European
Commission, a member of the Internet Society Advisory Council and the author
of the reference textbook "Understanding Networked Multimedia" as well as
more than 80 articles. He has 33 years of experience in networking and
information technologies. François Flückiger graduated from the Ecole
Supérieure d'Electricité in 1973 and holds an MBA from the Enterprise
Administration Institute in Paris in 1977. |