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Jos de Bruin – Curriculum vitae August 2004

My first name is enough to reach me at the IAAA domain.

Current acitivities

Design and implementation of an automatic generator of corporate identity styles (clients: KPN, NS and Oce), and of vase designs for the Alternate exhibition, spring 2004, in De Vleeshal, Middelburg. Both of these activities are sponsored by Premsela, Foundation for Dutch Design.

Lecturer of a MA course on Information Visualization at the University of Amsterdam.

Freelance consultant at the University of Amsterdam, on ICT and New Media.

Exhibitions

· Alternate, Vleeshal, Middelburg, April/May 2004

· Mu, De Witte Dame, Eindhoven, fall 2002

· TENT, Rotterdam, spring 2000

· ConsortiuM, Amsterdam, fall 2000

· Nomadisch Paviljoen, multimedia exhibit of Architecture and Artificial Art, spring/summer 1998, Town Hall, The Hague

Previous activities

1998 - ... Owner and managing director of Artificial Design.
Design and implementation of algorithmic art and automatic design generators for application in architecture (client: Architects ArchipelOntwerpers) and graphic design (clients: NS, KPN, Oce, FHV/BBDO).
Consultant ICT and New Media, clients: University of Amsterdam and KennisKring Amsterdam

1999 - ... Lecturer at the Free University Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam:
Information visualization - MA Course, Informatics, UvA.
Perception and image analysis - Word and Image, Faculty of Arts, Free University Amsterdam, BA Course (twice)
Representation and Usability/Task analysis - two new BA courses, Multimedia and Culture, Dept. of Computer Science, Free University Amsterdam
Multimedia Information, Informatics, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam
Algorithmic Art and AI, Faculty of Arts, New Media, University of Amsterdam

2002 - 2003 Researcher, Faculty of Science, Informatics Department, University of Amsterdam. Visual exploration of large, multi-dimensional image sets.

1998 - 2000 Information manager with CMC, Amsterdam, a model-based consultancy for compliance issues. Responsible for design and implementation of groupware tools for collecting, analyzing, modelling and visualizing expert opinion.

1991 - 1998 Member of the management team of the IT department (25 persons) of the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM), Bilthoven. Responsible for development and support of tools and systems for scientific visualization, simulation, multi-modal user interfaces, decision support, and Internet/Intranet applications. Initiated and managed the development of M, an integrated software package for the definition, visualization, documentation and application of large mathematical models of dynamic systems, promoted and realized its adoption by several large international research teams for their integrated assessment projects, at RIVM and other international research organisations. Initiated and funded joint research with University of Amsterdam (prof. R. Scha) on formal approaches to visualization.

1987 - 1991 Co-founder, director and owner of Cartesian Products BV. Designed and developed adaptive information systems combining relational database technology with expert systems and data mining. Systems were delivered to AKZO (pigment selection), Nutricia (generation of nutrition schedules for athletes), Keystone Valve Europe (valve selection), PLM Glass Industries (Statistical Process Control), Zaadunie (analysis of plant breeding experiments).

1984 - 1987 Scientist, AI Department of BBN Laboratories Inc., Cambridge, USA. Project manager for a configuration expert system for network components, a natural language interface for a US Navy database, and a knowledge-based tutor for radar maintenance. Implementor of a semantic interpretation module for relational nouns.

1982 ‑ 1984 Assistant Professor for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam.

1976 - 1982 Research Assistant, Cognitive Science and AI, University of Amsterdam.

Other professional activities

· Thesis advisor, Dept. of Computational Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam (formal approaches to visualization).

· Member of VISTAN

· Reviewer EC Telematics Programme (1993 - 1999), Information retrieval and filtering.

· Advisor of the European Environmental Agency (1995 - present), on the architecture and implementation of EIONET (Internet), and on datawarehousing.

· Member of the program committee of the 1984 European Conference on AI in Pisa, Italy, and the 1992 European ACL Conference, Utrecht.

· Secretary of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence of the Dutch Ministry of Education and Sciences (1982‑1983), editor of final report.

Publications

A series of three articles in the AutomatiseringsGids, on Algoritmic Art, Algorithmic Design and Algorithmic Music, (with R. Scha), , spring 2003.

A Republic of Information Designers, (with Remko Scha), Vision Plus 4, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1998.

The visual grammar of information graphics, (with Engelhardt e.a), Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Design, Stanford University, 1996.

M - A visual simulation tool, in: Simulation in the Medical Sciences, The Society for Computer Simulation, San Diego, 1996, 181-186.

A system for automatic rule induction (with T. Romeyn). In Proc. NAIC‑88, Amsterdam, 1988.

Machine learning and expert systems (with T. Romeyn), Kennissystemen, 2, 1, 1988.

The interpretation of relational nouns (with R. Scha). In: Proc. ACL 1988, Buffalo NY.

MACH‑III, a training system for radar maintenance (with D. Massey and B. Roberts). In (J. Psotka, L. Massey and S. Mutter, eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Lessons Learned, Erlbaum, 1988.

Expert Systems (with B. Wielinga), Intermediair, 5, 1984; also in Kennis, mens en computer (Kempen and Sprangers, eds.), Lisse, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1984.

Parallelle Systemen in de AI. In Psychologie in Nederland (P. Drenth, W. Koops, J. Orlbeke and R. Takens, eds.), Lisse, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1983, pp. 146‑160.

Symbolic Evaluation of LISP Functions with Side Effects for Verification (with D. de Champeaux). In: Proceedings of the Seventh Int'l Joint Conf. on AI, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1981.

Models developed in M that have been published on CD-ROM (see also: www.m.rivm.nl):

· FRED, a Framework for Research on Environment and Development, RIVM, 1998.

· Targets 1.0, CD-ROM, Electronic Series on Integrated Assessment Modeling, Baltzer, 1998.

· The IMAGE User Support System, CD-ROM, RIVM, 1998.