Oliver Becker, System Architecture, Department of Computer Science, Humboldt University Berlin .

academic work

My current fields of interest include CORBA and distributed applications as well as document processing with XML. So I'll give lectures on these topics in the current summer term.

The combination of these two technologies seems to have a big potential for achievement and will be the subject of my future research. In particular, the development and propagation of XML related techniques will push the use of XML. One example application, I like to play with, is XSLT - a language for transforming XML documents (but not only ...). My latest activities focus on the implementation of an STX processing engine in Java, called Joost.

My former activities included particularly the distributed design and implementation of intelligent telecommunications services. My diploma thesis - finished in July 1998 - comprises an event based architecture for IN services implemented by means of CORBA.

Aside from it, some students and me have worked on a research project for introducing the XML technology in the development and execution of intelligent telecommunication services. This project lasted for two years from 1999 to 2001 and was promoted by Siemens AG.

curriculum vitae

• born 1971, grew up in Berlin
• attended school for 12 years, the last two with enhanced math and physics lessons
• 1991 - 1998 study of computer science at Humboldt University Berlin, participated in miscellaneous academic projects
• since October 1998 member of the academic staff at Prof. Polze, going to write my doctoral thesis

hobbies etc

• I'm the biggest fan of my two cats
• enjoy most kinds of good music (Alanis Morissette, Kosheen, Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, Howie Day, Coldplay, Evanescence and still Genesis)
• foster parent at Plan International

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