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François Flückiger |
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François Flückiger is an Internet
veteran and was selected for induction in 2013 in the
Internet Hall of Fame together with 31 other inductees. Director of the
CERN School of Computing, he is Knowledge and Technology Transfer Officer
for Information Technologies at CERN .
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 40 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
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