Michael Hess' Curriculum Vitae

1949 Born in Zurich, Switzerland

1968-1976 Studies at the University of Zurich (Russian linguistics and literature, history) and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Artificial Intelligence)

Fall 1975 - Spring 1976 Exchange student at the University of Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR

1976 Ph.D (University of Zurich)

1977 - 1979 Research Assistant in a project of the Swiss National Science Foundation on the automatic summarization of texts

1980 - 1982 Grant for Advanced Young Researchers of the Swiss National Science Foundation

1980 - 1981 Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Great Britain

1982 - 1982 Visiting Scholar at the Deptartment of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Texas

1983 Associate Research Scientist at the same department

1984 - 1987 Research Assistant for Computational Linguistics at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Zurich

1987 - 1990 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Zurich

1990 - 1992 Chargé de recherche at the Institut pour les études sémantiques et cognitives (ISSCO), University of Geneva, Switzerland.

1991 ``Habilitation'' in Computational Linguistics (University of Zurich)

1992-1994 Professor of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Koblenz, Germany

since 1994 Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

since 2001 Head of the new Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

Author: Michael Hess

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