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Name:
Arne K. Frick
Address:
Richard-Wagner-Str. 7, D-76744 Wörth, GERMANY
home phone:
++49-7271-8061
office phone:
++49-721-608-4763
EMail:
frick@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
Date of Birth:
October 5th, 1965
Place of Birth:
Prüm/Eifel, GERMANY
Family status:
married, 2 children
Degrees:
M.S. in Computer Science (University of Southern California, 1989), Diplom-Informatiker (Universität Karlsruhe, 1991)

Education

1971-1975:
Elementary School, Dreisbach-Grundschule, Siegen, Germany
1975-1984
Secondary School, Gymnasium auf der Morgenröthe, Siegen, Germany, graduated with GPA of 1.4 (1.0 best), ranked second-best student in class.
10/1985-8/1991
Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany. Informatics major, Mathematics minor, finished with degree of Diplom-Informatiker, GPA of 1.2 (1.0 best). Thesis on Hardware Design of the Arithmetic of an Elliptic Curve with Applications in Cryptography. Scholarship awarded by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (1986-1991).
8/1988-8/1989
University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California. Computer Science graduate studies, finished with Master's degree, GPA of 3.88 (4.0 best). Tuition Award.

Employment

1995-
free-lance UNIX trainer
1991-
full-time position as research and teaching assistant at Universität Karlsruhe; tasks included the design, implementation and evaluation of Karla, a robust object-oriented class library of reusable components. I will probably get a Ph.D. degree in May, 1996.
1987
internship at Siemens AG, Karlsruhe; evaluation of operating systems
1986-1988
student researcher at Universität Karlsruhe; traffic modelling and performance analysis for FDDI networks
1984-1985
serviced in the German Luftwaffe (air force) in military air traffic control as Interceptor Controller Assistant (ICA) under NATO command.

Publications

  • I. Bruss and A. Frick: Fast Interactive 3-D Graph Visualization, Proceedings of Graph Drawing '95, Springer Verlag 1995, to appear.
  • A. Frick, W. Zimmer, W. Zimmermann: Über die Konstruktion robuster objektorientierter Klassenbibliotheken. GI Fachtagung Software-Technik, Braunschweig, Oktober 1995.
  • A. Frick, W. Zimmer, W. Zimmermann: On the Design of Reliable Libraries. TOOLS 17 -- Technology of Object-Oriented Programming, p. 13--23, Prentice Hall 1995.
  • A. Frick, A. Ludwig and H. Mehldau: A fast adaptive layout algorithm for undirected graphs, Proceedings of Graph Drawing'94, LNCS 894, Springer Verlag 1995.
  • A. Frick: Efficient Specification Techniques for Software Visualization . ACM SIGCHI '94 Workshop on Software Visualization, Boston, April 1994.

    • Achievements

    1995: Final round participant of the MultimediaTransfer'95 contest with our program gem3Ddraw for the 3-D visualization of discrete data structures.

    Expertise Summary

    Languages & Libraries

    extensive
    Sather-K, C, TCL/Tk, Perl, Pascal, HTML, Shell programming (sh, csh, ksh, bash)
    moderate
    C++, Eiffel, Oberon, Modula-2, Common Lisp, OSF Motif

    Operating Systems

    extensive
    Unix (both BSD and System V), X-Window System
    moderate
    DOS/Windows

    Tools & Techniques

    extensive
    GNU Emacs, LaTeX, FrameMaker
    moderate
    RPC, streams, sockets, GUI

    Language Proficiency

    German
    native language
    English
    fluently spoken and written. Test results (1988):
    French
    basic knowledge (1-year intensive course in secondary school)

    Other interests