Education, Degrees and Appointments

• Coronado High School, Coronado, California; 1970-1973
• University of California; B.A., Psychology; June, 1977
• University of California, Davis; King Hall School of Law; Juris Doctor (J.D.); June, 1982
• Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt; Dr. rer. nat; Computer Science; June, 1993.
• Honorary Professor for Argumentation Technology, Department of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Potsdam, since 2010.
• Technische Universität Berlin; Habilitation; Intelligent Systems; 2012

Employment History

• Research Scientist; Research Center for Information Law; Institute for Applied Information Technology; German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD); Sankt Augustin, Germany;1983 to 1985
• Research Scientist; Expert Systems Division; Institute for Applied Information Technology; German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD); Sankt Augustin, Germany;1985 to 1999
• Senior Research Scientist; Institute for Automous Intelligent Systems; German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD); Sankt Augustin, Germany; 1999 to 2000
• Senior Research Scientist; Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS); Berlin, Germany; 2001 to 2017.
• Retired since September, 2017.

Awards

• Best Exhibit Prize; The Zeno Mediation System; 23rd German Annual Conference for Artificial Intelligence (KI99); Bonn, Germany; 1999.