Rein Smedinga 

He has laughed and he has cried
He has fought and he has died
He's just the same as all the rest
He's not the worst, he's not the best
(c)


1970 - 1976 Secondary school - Atheneum B
1976 - 1983
University of Groningen - Mathematics
Master degree in january 1983 (cum laude) with specialization ``system and control theory.'' My masters thesis was called (in Dutch) ``Ontwerp van een computer programma voor het oplossen van storingsontkoppelingsproblemen.''
1983 - 1989
Department of Computing Science, Groningen - Researcher/Ph.D. student
As a ``wetenschappelijk assistent'' in the department of computing science of the university of Groningen, part of the time I assisted in the setup of the new computing science curriculum. Research first focussed on simulation techniques, resulting in [Sme03], later on discrete event systems, resulting in a Ph.D.degree in January 1989. The Ph.D.thesis was called ``Control of Discrete Events.'' [Sme04]
1989 -
Department of Computing Science, Groningen - Assistent Professor
Among other things, my research interests are in Software engineering and discrete event systems.

Together with Petr Kozák (Academy of Sciences, Prague) I organized a congress on discrete event systems in August 1992 [WODES92]. After the 11th international conference on analysis and optimazation of systems in 1994 in Sophia Antipolis (France), also considered to be the second wodes, the next WODES has been co-organised by me in Edinburgh, Scotland in august 1996, this time together with Michael Spathopoulos (Strathclyde University), see [WODES96]. The following WODES was organized in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy by Alessandro Giua, Michael Spathopoulos, and myself, see [WODES98] (a special issue of jDEDS, devoted to WODES98, was published in 2002). Currently I am a member of the WODES steering committee, see e.g. WODES2000.

I participate in IPA (Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics) and in the TMR-project ALAPEDES. I am a member of the Dutch Association for Theoretical Computer Science, the NVTI and participate in the Dutch Foundation for Measurement and Control Technology.

From November  2000, I became a member of the research group software engineering and start studying software architectures and product lines.
1997 - 2000
Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Groningen - scientific coordinator
In this half-time function, I was a coordinator for education and research within the department and responsible for personal, financial and location management. I was head of the secretary of the department and of the office for education.
 In this function, as part of a course on management, I have worked on the electronic learning environment [ELO].
2000 - 2003
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Groningen - ICT/CBT-coordinator
From september 2001 to februari 2002 I was the faculty coordinator for the electronical learning environment Nestor, see here; next I became involved with the new webplatform of the university, see here.
2003 -
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Groningen - staff member information technology
From march 2003 on, I am one of the two Web coordinators for the faculty.
I am chairing the faculty web council and member of the university web council and responsible for both technique and content of the 14 faculty webportals within the university web platform.
2002 -
NIOC, member of the board (secretary)
From september 2002 on, I am a member (secretary) of the board of NIOC (The Dutch congress on Computer Science education) and working on the organisation of NIOC2004 in Groningen.



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