Ralf Steinmetz

Ralf Steinmetz (born July 31, 1956 in Santiago de Chile , Chile ) is a German computer scientist and electrical engineer . He works as a professor for multimedia communication at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

Steinmetz studied electrical engineering at the TU Darmstadt, where he received his doctorate in 1986 on the subject of modularized Petri networks for the description and analysis of communications systems with meshed information processing structures .

After further activities in research and management at Philips and IBM from 1987 to 1996, Steinmetz completed his habilitation in 1994 at the computer science department of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on the subject of multimedia technology: basics, components and systems . In 1996 he was appointed to a newly established endowed professorship for industrial process and system communication from the Volkswagen Foundation at TU Darmstadt. Steinmetz also took over the management of a GMD research center for information systems from 1996 to 2000 and, in his role as institute director, accompanied the transfer to a Fraunhofer institute. In 1999 he founded the Hessian Telemedia Technology Competence Center (httc eV), of which he is chairman of the board.

Since 1996, Steinmetz has a C4 - professorship at Darmstadt Technical University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology held and a second member on department of computer science . Since October 2001 he has been head of the multimedia communication department.

In 2005 Steinmetz was appointed as a member of the technology advisory board of the Hessen Agency and as the representative for information and communication technology of the Hessian state government.

From 2006 to 2012 he was the spokesman for the newly founded DFG research group "Improving the quality of peer-to-peer systems through the systematic research of quality features and their mutual dependencies". In 2012 Steinmetz played a key role in establishing the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1053 MAKI at the TU Darmstadt , of which he has been spokesman since 2013. In this context he deals intensively with the future of the Internet with regard to the concept of transition . He also manifests this as spokesman for the profile area Internet and digitization at TU Darmstadt .

At the university assembly of the TU Darmstadt, Steinmetz represents the professors group for high-performance universities .

In August 2018 Steinmetz was appointed to the Council for Digital Ethics by the Hessian state government .

Services

In the eighties Steinmetz coined and sharpened the term multimedia in the professional world. He did fundamental work in the field of synchronicity perception in multimedia streams. At the chair of multimedia communication, Steinmetz works with over 30 researchers to realize his vision of real seamless multimedia communication . His research interests include, among other things, the Communication Services areas, IT Architectures, Knowledge media, mobile networking, networked gaming , Network Mechanisms & QoS , Peer-to-Peer Networking, Network Security & Trust and Rechnerallgegenwart (Engl. Ubiquitous computing ).

Awards

• 1999 IEEE Fellow
• 1999 Award for Excellence in Internet research from IBM
• 1999 Appointment as iCCC Governor
• 2001 ACM Fellow appointment
• 2009 Appointment as ACM "Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications"
• 2014 Chair of Excellence at the University of Carlos III
• 2017 Appointment as ITG Fellow of the Information Technology Society in the VDE
• 2018 appointment as GI-Fellow of the Society for Computer Science
• 2019 election as a member of the Academia Europaea

Publications

Steinmetz has contributed significantly to more than 900 publications and wrote several textbooks on multimedia technologies, some of which are standard works in teaching.

• Ralf Steinmetz, Klaus Wehrle (Eds.): Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3485, Springer, Berlin 2005 (Sept.), ISBN 3-540-29192-X
• Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt: Multimedia Systems , Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-40867-3
• Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt: Multimedia Applications , Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-40849-5
• Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt: Multimedia Fundamentals Volume 1, 2nd Edition . Prentice Hall 2002. ISBN 0-130-31399-8
• Ralf Steinmetz: Multimedia technology. Basics, components and systems , Springer 2000, ISBN 3-540-67332-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Ralf Steinmetz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Complete list of publications by Ralf Steinmetz
• Ralf Steinmetz at the TU Darmstadt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ website httc eV - httc eV Official Websites of the Hessian Telemedia Technology Competence Center. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
2. ↑ Website of the Department of Multimedia Communication - Department of Multimedia Communication Official website of the Department of Multimedia Communication at TU Darmstadt. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
3. ↑ Website of the DFG-SFB MAKI - Ralf Steinmetz is spokesman for the DFG-SFB MAKI ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the DFG-SFB MAKI at the TU Darmstadt. Retrieved July 17, 2014. 
4. ↑ Blog: Multimedia Communications - Interview with Ralf Steinmetz on the subject of Future Internet and MAKI . Weblog of the multimedia communication department at TU Darmstadt, head of Ralf Steinmetz. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
5. ↑ Profile area InDi. Retrieved on November 21, 2018 (German). 
6. ↑ High- performance university: members of the professors group "High-performance university" Retrieved December 20, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Cabinet meeting with a focus on “Digitization” . In: egovernment.hessen.de . August 20, 2018 ( hessen.de [accessed August 29, 2018]).