Klaus Johannes Rusch
Blog
Read my random thoughts blog. The usual disclaimer: These postings are my own personal thoughts and do not necessarily represent my employer's positions, strategies or opinions.
Professional information
When I first saw a web page back in 1994—it was the famous, now defunct Trojan Room Coffee Machine at the University of Cambridge—I said to myself "wow, that's great." This was when I fell in love with Internet and the World Wide Web. Back in those days the Internet and the Information Superhighway were myths rather than media.
At present I am with IBM Corporation as Manager, Global Web CSAT and Web Enablement Europe. Prior to that I have been working on finance and image processing applications, Internet education and World Wide Web publishing, including an earlier version of IBM Ausbildung Online, a catalogue of IBM learning services offerings in Austria, and as senior IT architect and webmaster for www.ibm.com. I also served at Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald, a geriatric hospital in Vienna as my compulsory public service.
A gradudate of Computer Science (Informatik) at Technische Universität Wien/Vienna University of Technology my master's thesis covered special aspects of the Austrian public census Volkszählung 1991: Anwendung und Anwenderstrukturen (see online library catalog for availability). My research interests include Artificial Intelligence and natural language processing (NLP), information development, security and privacy issues, networking and programming languages.
For the records there is a list of conferences I have attended recently, focussing on Internet and World Wide Web.
Spare time activities
Originally from the very west of Austria, Vorarlberg (recommended reading: Z'Wian si … in German), I now live in Vienna. I enjoy reading and hacking Perl code or web pages, as well as playing board games like Abalone and Go (once I understand all the different versions of Go mentioned in the Go Frequently Asked Questions).
Although we have been kind of lazy recently, I do enjoy the walks through the streets of Vienna with my wife Andrea, who always is in search for phonecards to improve her collection (donations welcome).
Related links
- Holiday and event pictures of our recent trips to Spain, Australia, Greece, Canada, Texas, Italy, Amsterdam, Portugal, Cyprus, the Baltic states, Jersey and other places
- Computers lists some previous and current computers at our home, not that this is of particular interest to anyone but I haven't found a better place to keep this information yet :-)
- Conferences is a summary of conferences I have attended or spoken at; I have not attended a conference for a while, though.
- Elsewhere:
- Radauer's Heuriger, the first Heuriger restaurant on the web, also serving the best pear strudel I know of, honestly.
- International Business Machines Corp., an obvious choice, isn't it? Read more about innovation in the IT industry, products, services and solutions.
- The BookMark, a collection of recommended book titles in computer science, biochemistry and other areas.
- Don't click here
- Zivildienst (in German)
And finally, two shameless plugs:
- The WWW Entertainment Package, a collection of classic board games, and the winner of the Austrian World Wide Web competition 1995 by EuNet, PING and Computerwoche.
- aMAZEing web, a metaphor on the inability to find one's way. aMAZEing web was awarded an honorable mention in the category Best Homepage/Display at Prix Ars Electronica 1995.
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