François Bry

Current

Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

Past

Researcher at ECRC (European Computer-Industry Research Centre)
Researcher at ECRC
Researcher at INRETS

Software engineer at Alcatel
Lecturer at ESIEA

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Education

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Université Paris Dauphine
École Alsacienne

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François Bry’s Summary

François Bry, born 1956, is currently investigating methods and applications for information systems of the next generation especially social media/software, query answering, reactivity, search, and reasoning on the Web and Semantic Web. Formerly, he worked on knowledge representation, deductive databases, automated theorem proving, and logic programming.

Since 1994, he is a professor at the Institute for Informatics of the University of Munich, Germany, and head of a unit (http://pms.ifi.lmu.de). From 1984 through 1993, he was with the European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC), Munich, a joint venture of Bull (France), Siemens (Germany), and ICL (United Kingdom). Before 1983, he has worked in a few companies in Paris, France, among others on an early word processor.

He received in 1981 a doctoral degree from the University of Paris 6. He has been or is involved in research projects founded by the European Commission (ESPRIT, FP6) and in doctoral schools founded by the German Foundation for Research (DFG). He has been the scientific coordinator of the Network of Excellence REWERSE (http://rewerse.net 2004-2008) of the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission. He is involved in the project KIWI (http://www.kiwi-project.eu, 2008-2011) on a semantic wiki founded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission.

He likes biking, hiking, and traveling, especially to Asia. He lives with his family in Vienna, Austria, and Munich, Germany, and frequently travel to France, especially to Paris.

François Bry’s Specialties:

Information systems, web technologies, social software, search engines, query languages, rule languages, event processing, automated reasoning.

François Bry’s Experience

Professor

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1994 — Present (16 years )

http://www.lmu.de
Researcher

ECRC (European Computer-Industry Research Centre)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

January 1984 — December 1993 (10 years )
Researcher

ECRC

(Computer Software industry)

1984 — 1993 (9 years )
Researcher

INRETS

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

February 1982 — December 1983 (1 year 11 months)
Software engineer

Alcatel

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALA; Telecommunications industry)

November 1980 — January 1981 (3 months)
Lecturer

ESIEA

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 1979 — July 1980 (11 months)

François Bry’s Education

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

Licence (1977), Maîtrise (1978), DEA (1979), Doctorat (3ème cycle, 1981) , Mathematics , 1976 — 1981
Université Paris Dauphine

DEUG , Mathematics , 1974 — 1976
École Alsacienne

Baccalaureat , General education , 1970 — 1974