CV, Soren Lauesen Home

Phone: +45 3956 1748
Email: slauesen@itu.dk
Web: www.itu.dk/people/slauesen/

Nationality: Danish
Also lived one year in Ghana and two times one year in Australia

1962-73:

Developer, later department manager at Regnecentralen (Danish computer manufacturer). Developed all kinds of systems from business administration and bus-route optimization, to compilers and operating systems. Chief designer of the RC4000 multiprogramming and real-time operating system (together with Per Brinch Hansen and Jørn Jensen).

1969-72:

Part-time associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. Co-founder of the first computer science education in Denmark.

1973-76:

Co-founder of the software development department at Brown Boveri, Copenhagen (now ABB). Designed and developed process control systems for power distribution.

1974-75:

Management consultant for ILO in Ghana (Africa). Advisor to the Ghanian government on IT issues. (On leave from Brown Boveri).

1976-79:

Visiting professor at University of Copenhagen. Started design of an object-oriented operating system where objects were hardware-protected against each other, and where objects could be removed in a controlled manner with necessary clean-up in cooperating objects. Served as department manager the last two years.

1979-85:

Co-founder of the software development centre at NCR, Copenhagen. Chief designer and project manager for object-oriented operating systems, temporal databases, etc. Department manager for advanced development and quality assurance.

1985-99:

Professor at Copenhagen Business School. Co-founder of the combination education in business and computer science. Head of department (40 staff) from 1992 to 1996.

1996-97:

Visiting scholar at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. (Sabbatical). Research work in requirements engineering, human-computer interaction, object-oriented systems.

1999-

Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.

2001-02

Visiting scholar at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. (Sabbatical). Research work in user interface design and requirements engineering.

Affiliations and Awards

• Member of the Danish Scientific Research Council 1977-81.
• Member of the Danish Scientific-Technical Research Council 1985-93.
• Award for Research & Education, Jorck's Foundation, 1986.
• Member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, 1995- .
• Member of the Board of Directors, Delta, 1999-2002.
• Member of the Board of Directors, Center for Language Technology, 2001-2004.
• Member of the Danish IT association, the committtee for systems development, 2003-2009.

Research areas

Other interests