André SchiperAndré Schiper graduated in Physics from the ETHZ in Zurich in 1973 and received the PhD degree in Computer Science from EPFL in 1980. He has been a professor of computer science at EPFL since 1985, leading the Distributed Systems Laboratory. During the academic year 1992-1993 he was on sabbatical leave at the University of Cornell, Ithaca, New York (working with Ken Birman and Aleta Ricciardi), and in 2004-2005 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France (working with Bernadette Charron-Bost). His research interests are in the area of dependable distributed systems, middleware support for dependable systems, replication techniques (including for database systems), group communication, distributed transactions, and MANETs (mobile ad-hoc networks).
Prof. Schiper is member of the editorial boards of
Distributed Computing (DC), Springer Verlag - ACM,
Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE,
International Journal of Security and Networks (Inderscience).
Johannes HentschelJohannes Hentschel studied music education, music theory, and Romance studies in Freiburg i. Br., Lübeck, and Helsinki. Proficient as an accordionist, singer and conductor, he is a lecturer for music theory at music universities. In 2018, however, he suspended this activity for the Digital Humanities Doctoral Program at the Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Rohrmeier at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML), Johannes is preparing a thesis on diachronic style change in music while deepening his knowledge in corpus building and metadata organization.
