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Jean-François ABRAMATIC Senior Vice President R&D, ILOG S.A. Date and place of birth : 8 July 1949, Paris 75014, France Family status: married, children Domicile: 9 rue des Ecuyers 78100 Saint Germain en Laye, France Mobile telephone: +33 (0)6 73 99 33 62

Position on the date of his appointment to the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies, 27 September 2004

DIPLOMAS

• Civil engineer, Ecole des Mines (1971, Nancy)
• Doctor of Engineering (1975, Orsay)
• Doctor of Science (1980, Paris VI)
  

TRACK RECORD

2000 - 2004	ILOG Chief Product Officer (2003-2004) Senior Vice President Research & Development (2000-2002)
1996 - 2001	W3C (hosted by MIT/LCS & INRIA) Chairman of W3C, the International World Wide Web Consortium
1992 - 1996	INRIA Vice President Development Associate Chairman of W3C (1995-1996)
1988 - 1991	GIPSI SA Chairman and CEO GIPSI was the first supplier of X colour terminals
1984 - 1988	GIPSI-SM90 Manager GIPSI-SM90 was a public interest grouping set up to develop graphic workstations, whose members were Bull, France Telecom/CNET et INRIA.
1974 - 1984	INRIA Research Representative, Vice President Research Specialty: digital image processing Sabbatical year: University of Southern California Los Angeles (1979)
1972-1974	ECOLE DES MINES DE PARIS - Automation Centre Research grant Area: differential games

Board membership

1993-1997	Board of Directors, 02 Technology
1994-2000	Board of Directors, ILOG
1999-2000	Board of Directors of ICANN
2000-2003	Member, Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies
2000-2003	Member, Steering Committee, Internet Rights Forum
2000-2003	Member, Reuters Venture Capital Technical Advisory Board
2001-2003	Member, Research Board, Ecole Polytechnique

MISSION for the FRENCH GOVERNMENT

1998	Technical aspects of developing internet , part of the Government Action Programme for an Information Society

PATENTS

1. Method and Apparatus for Improved Digital Image Processing
(with W.K. Pratt and O.D. Faugeras)

2. Visual telecommunications processes and devices, particularly for people with hearing problems (with P. Letellier and M. Nadler)

ORGANISATION of CONFERENCES

Member of the organizing committee of IEEE-Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing International Conference - Paris, 1982

President of the SM90 Conference - Versailles, 1985

Founding member of IW3C2, the International World Wide Web Conference Committee

President of the 5th International World Wide Web Conference - Paris, 1996

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Linear automation
Ecole des Mines, Paris (1979-1981)
Ecole des Mines, Nancy (1971-1977)
Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Marseille (1974-1977)

Image analysis and digital processing
Ecole Supérieure d'Optique (1980-1981)
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (1980-1983)
Ecole de l'IRIA (1977-1983), Ecole EDF-INRIA (1980)
European Course programme (1982)
Supélec vocational training programme (1982)

IT
Ecole Polytechnique (1986-1991)