OOTI 20 Year Anniversary Symposium

In his 22-year career with IBM Nicky Hekster has hold many different positions. The past three years he works as an IT Architect focussing on solutions for Healthcare and LifeSciences. In addition he is a specialist in the field of super-, grid -, autonomic - and cloud computing. He holds a Ph.D. in pure mathematics.

Ruud Overeem: After studying Physics in Enschede in the early 80's and serving my time in the army (yes, it was mandatory at that time) I started my career in 1987. Although I studied physics my heart was really in computers. Not only writing software but also designing and building the hardware.
After ‘looking around’ in several jobs in the randstad I went back to Drenthe in the 90’s where I grew up. During the last 22 years I worked at very different companies like government, research, hospital, telecom and commercial software companies. The software I wrote varies from embedded software, kernel drivers, voice response systems, message brokers to M&C systems.
The last 6 years at Astron I work at several parts of the LOFAR software. After writing some 'common' utilities I designed and built the SAS subsystem that is responsible for the Specification, Administration and Scheduling of the LOFAR observations. After that I took over the development and maintenance of the real time software running on the LOFAR stations. The last two years my main task was designing and building the Monitor and Control subsystem of LOFAR.

Jan van der Meer is Department Leader Technology Development at Ericsson Telecommunicatie BV in the Netherlands. The Ericsson R&D group in Rijen is worldwide responsible for the development of Value Added Network Services.
He participated in the start of Intelligent Networking products at Ericsson and was one of the main responsibles for the initial platform architecture. Which made customer programming possible in a real-time online system.
Jan has been mainly active in Telecommunication Systems and Technology during his professional career, and was previously employed at Siemens and KPN.

Hans Rijns is Vice President and Manager Research at NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips.
Hans is responsible for all applications, systems, circuits and process technology research programs at NXP. In this role, he is part of the NXP Corporate Innovation and Technology management team headed by Rene Penning de Vries.
He started his professional career in 1991 at Philips Research as scientist in the area of discrete-time mixed-signal circuits. In 1996 he moved to Philips Semiconductors and held various technical and business management positions mainly in the field of baseband and multimedia products for the wireless market.
Since 2006, he proceeded to executive management positions in NXP Research.
Hans holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Mathieu Goudsmits started 26 years ago as HW designer of cryptographic communication equipment for the NATO. After fulfilling roles as project manager and product manager in which he was responsible for projects up to 75M Euro turnover he started with setting up and heading the Philips CryptoWorks group that developed and sold conditional access system world wide. The group ended up with having 35M annual turnover with a 30% profit margin when it was sold to Irdeto.
During that time he was also the Vice chairman of the European anti piracy organization AEPOC for 9 years and in the same period he was also part time teacher at the Technical Highschool of Utrecht where he taught communication security on a post HBO course on communication technologies. Besides some publications in communication and computer magazines he also has 2 US and 4 European Patents.
After the take over by Irdeto of the Philips activities he set up a successful research department that is now leading the latest technology developments within Irdeto group of companies.

Ad Peeters studied Computing Science at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he obtained MSc, PDEng, and PhD degrees in 1988, 1990, and 1996 respectively. In 1995, Ad started at Philips Research, working on the further development and commercialization of Handshake Technology, an asynchronous circuit designed style aimed at energy efficiency and low electromagnetic emission. Since 2004 Ad is chief technology officer of Handshake Solutions, a start-up within Philips aiming at creating a business based on further expanding the technology in the market.

Paul Havinga is associate professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and CTO of Ambient Systems in Enschede. He received his PhD on the thesis entitled “Mobile Multimedia Systems” in 2000, and was awarded with the 'DOW Dissertation Energy Award' for this work. His current research interests are in the field of ambient intelligence, distributed computing, and embedded wireless networking. Research questions cover architectures, protocols, programming paradigms, algorithms, and applications. This research has resulted in over 200 scientific publications in journals and conferences. He is project manager of several international projects on Ambient Intelligence and wireless sensor networks. In 2004 he founded the company Ambient Systems B.V., which develops very low-power embedded wireless networking platforms and applications, with a special focus on logistics and transport.

Kees van Overveld (1957) obtained a MSc and PhD degree in physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). In 1985, he joined the computing science department of the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of TU/e as a university lecturer; since 1990 as associate professor. Here, he initiated the research and education in computer graphics. From November 1996 to June 1998 he worked with Philips Research; In 1998 he founded ‘Van Overveld Coaching’, a consultancy company specialized in creativity techniques and modeling. In 2002, he joined the Faculty of Industrial Design (ID) at TU/e; as of 2003, he joined the "Academisch Platform" at TU/e. In this affiliation, he is involved with the definition and assessment of Academic Criteria for Bachelors and Masters programs. Since 2007 he takes a 0.4 chair as Associate Professor at the department of Technology Management of TU/e.
His current research interest focuses around design methodology, where ‘design’ relates to all processes where artifacts are created that should serve a well-defined purpose