Max Muehlhaeuser
From IRF 2008
Prof. Max Mühlhäuser
Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser is a full professor of computer science at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He received his doctorate degree from the University of Karlsruhe and founded a research center for Digital Equipment (DEC). Since 1989, Professor Mühlhäuser has worked as either professor or visiting professor at universities in Germany, Austria, France, Canada, and the US. He has published around 200 articles, co-authored and edited books on computer aided authoring/learning, and distributed/multimedia software engineering.
Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser heads the Telecooperation Division and the Departmental Computing Center within the Informatics Department, the campuswide center of research excellence in eLearning, and further initiatives in Darmstadt – with more than 35 staff altogether.
His core research interest is development support for next-generation Internet applications, mainly in the areas of: ubiquitous, ambient, and mobile computing and commerce; eLearning; multimodal interaction, distributed multimedia and continuous media; hypermedia and Semantic Web; cooperation; and pervasive security. The enabling technologies applied comprise distributed objectoriented programming, event-based and peer2peer infrastructures, hypertext, and audio/video processing.
