CURRICULUM VITAE
H. Maurer

Born in 1941 in Vienna, Austria. Study of Mathematics at the
Universities of Vienna (Austria) and Calgary (Canada) starting in 1959.
System Analyst with the Government of Saskatchewan (Canada) in 1963. 
Mathematician- programmer with IBM Research in Vienna 1964--1966. Ph.D. in 
Mathematics from the University of Vienna 1965. Assistant and Associate 
Professor for Computer Science at the University of Calgary 1966--1971. Full 
Professor for Applied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, West 
Germany, 1971-1977, and Visiting Professor at SMU, Dallas, and University of 
Brasilia (Brazil) for three months, each, and at the University of Waterloo, 
during the same period. Full Professor at the Graz University of Technology 
since 1978. In addition, director of the Research Institute
for Applied Information Processing of the Austrian Computer Society since 1983;
chairman of Institute for Information Processing  and Computer Supported New Media
since 1988, and director of the Institute for Multi-Media Information Systems 
of Joanneum Research since April 1990.  Adjunct Professor at Denver University 
1984--1988. Professor for Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New 
Zealand, since Feb. 1, 1993 (on leave from Graz).

Author of eleven books and over 300 scientific contributions, holder of patent
for optical storage device, referee for a number of journals and publishing
companies, editor of a series of research papers, member of the board of
various institutions. Member of program committee of a number of international
conferences. Chairman of Working Group Hypermedia Systems in Austria. Project 
manager of a number of multimillion-dollar undertakings including the development of the
colour-graphic micro MUPID, the distributed CAI-system  COSTOC,
multi-media projects such as "Hyper-G", or "Images of Austria" (Expo'92), and 
electronic publishing projects.

Main research and project areas: languages and their applications, data
structures and their efficient use, telematic services, computer networks,
computer assisted instruction, computer supported new media, hypermedia systems
and applications, and social implications of computers.

 Auckland, Spring 1993