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Wolfgang von
Rueden
studied physics at Mainz University before coming to CERN in
1975. He worked during the first part of his career on
real-time data acquisition systems. In 1990, he co-founded
IBEX Computing, and returned to CERN in 1992 where he
introduced industrial control systems for physics
experiments. From 1994 until 1998, he was Technical Director
at GSI, a German National Research Institute in Heavy Ion
Physics. After his return to CERN, he was in charge of the
Physics Data Processing Group in CERNs IT Department,
before becoming Head of the IT Department (2003-2008). He
has been leading CERN openlab, a joint venture between CERN and
leading IT companies, till May 2011. |