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ACADEMIA

has been and continues to be the first and foremost interest with employments at the

• Graz University of Technology [Austria],
• International institute for Geoinformation and Earth Observation [ITC, Delft and Enschede, The Netherlands], now organized as a Faculty of the University of Twente,
• California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL], Pasadena [California, USA] 

Laudatio for Prof. Wolfgang Förstner [University Bonn, Germany]

at the occasion of the award of a Doctorate Honoris Causa

BUSINESS 

had its attraction of clear measures of success or failure, and of unparalleled flows of adrenaline at

• Markhurd Corp. [Minneapolis, USA] as its CEO
• Vexcel Corp. [Boulder, Colorado, USA] as its founder, CEO later as a member of its Board of Directors,
• Microsoft Corp. [USA] as a result of the sale of the Vexcel firms to Microsoft and in the function of "evangelist" and of  working as a Director of the Virtual Earth business unit

Dr. John Curlander and Franz Leberl partnering in Vexcel Corporation

RESEARCH MANAGEMENT

exists wherever research is being conducted. It has thus been part of all professional activities. The need for business and academic skills drove employment at the

• Institute of Digital Image Processing DIBAG at Joanneum Research in Graz [Austria] as its founder and director;
• Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf ARCS, now under the new name Austrian Institute of Technology AIT in Seibersdorf and Vienna [Austria] as its CEO.

First page of the Annual Report by the CEO of the Austrian Research Centers for the fiscal year 1997, completed in February 1998