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Special
Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium

4:15PM, Wednesday, September 24,1999
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03

BIO-COM
Mixing water with Fire

Dennis Tsichritzis
GMD
About the talk:
This talk will discuss the excitement generated by combining areas in everything bio with areas in everything com. Examples of research projects in Bioinformatics and Biological Computing currently in progress at GMD will be outlined.

About the speaker:

Prof. Dr. Dennis Tsichritzis is currently the Chairman of the Executive Board of GMD Research Center on Information Technology in Germany and a Professor at the University of Geneva. Prior to joining the faculty in Geneva he was a Professor of the University of Crete (Greece) and Director of the Institute of Computer Science. Before that he was a Professor at the University of Toronto. He holds a M.A. and Ph. D. degrees from Princeton University.

GMD is the German National Research Center for Information Technology. GMD conducts cutting edge research on national and international level. GND cooperates with partners from trade and industry. GMD is an application-oriented research institution. GMD sees itself as a catalyst of innovative ideas in the field of information technology. GMD is the place where researchers can develop innovative ideas in cooperation with partners from trade and industry who transform research results into new products.

Information for students:

This Special Colloquium is not part of the regular Wednesday series but can be substituted for any of the regular lectures by students taking the Colloquium for credit.

Contact information:

Dennis Tsichritzis
GMD - Forschungszentrum Informatnstechnik GmbH
Schloss Birlinghoven
53754 Sankt Augustin
Dennis.Tsichritzis@gmd.de