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The facts are: "In the next few decades, a tremendous number of autonomous and networked systems will provide the most relevant (and usually hidden) computing capabilities for living and working together. In our global village, the heterogeneity of such ubiquitous communications devices and protocols would even increase. We as humans, must be able to make use of these new possibilities comfortably and really easily."

The challenges include: "Innovative quality of service mechanisms must be made available at access networks and at the edge of networks. Communication protocols should make use of the knowledge of data transmitted within their context of use. A plethora of networks results in the need for self organization mechanisms and context aware communications."

My Opinion is ...

Hence, let us bridge heterogeneity and invent full fletched seamless multimedia communications!

since 2009	Member of the Board, ITG Information Technology Society of the VDE, (Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies), Frankfurt
since 2007	President of the Board of Trustees, IMDEA Networks (Research Institute on Networks and Telematics Services), Madrid, Spain
since 2006	Member of IT-council, member of the Technology Advisory Board of the state of Hessen and advisor for information and communications technology of the state (province) of Hessen, Hessen Agentur, Wiesbaden
since 2002	Member of the Board of Directors, E-Finance Lab Frankfurt am Main e.V.
since 1998	Chairman of the Board, Hessian Telemedia Technology CompetenceCenter (httc), Darmstadt
1996 – 2001	Director, Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute former GMD – National Research Center for Information Technology, Darmstadt

since Oct. 2001	Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Multimedia Communications Lab, Darmstadt Full Professor and Director (among other responsibilities: dean for 2.5 yr)
since Aug. 1997	Adjunct Professorship, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt
1996 – 2001	Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Volkswagen Endowed Chair of Industrial Process and System Communications, Darmstadt
1988 – 1996	IBM European Networking Center, Heidelberg, Manager of the WT Multimedia Department (also known as the European IBM Multimedia Center Heidelberg)
1987 – 1988	Philips Communications Industry Corp., Advanced Development, Siegen

1994	Habilitation in Computer Science at Frankfurt University
1986	Doctoral Degree (Dr.-Ing) in Electrical Engineering, Communications

• “E-teaching Award - Best Practice” at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (from the foundation “Carlo und Karin Giersch-Stiftung“) 2008
• First ACM SIGMM “Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications”, 2008
• Siemens Excellence Award 2008 (for supervised student master thesis), 2008
• Best Presentation Award, IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies 2008 (supervised thesis), 2008
• 2nd Best Student Thesis Award in Security from the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology CAST (supervised thesis), 2007
• Best Student Paper Award, European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning ECTEL, 2007
• Award for Excellent Master Thesis from the Finnish Society of Computer Science (supervised thesis), 2006
• Roger Needham EuroSys 2006 Award for Best European Thesis in Computer Science from European ACM SIGOPS (supervised thesis), 2006
• Best Paper Award GI/ITG KiVS, 2005
• 50.000 EUR award (to post doctoral researcher at the lab) from Adolf Messer Stiftung (foundation) for outstanding research in mobile networking, 2005
• Best Dissertation Award of the "Gesellschaft für Informatik" (German Computer Science Association), (supervised thesis) 2004
• Best Diploma Thesis (supervised thesis) GI/ITG-Fachgruppe KuVS, 2004
• "National Leader Award" Economic Forum Deutschland, 2004
• Best Paper Award MIPS 2003 (International Workshop on Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems) MIPS 2003 (now known as CoNext)
• ACM Fellow, 2002
• Best Paper Award SPECTS 2001 (International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems), 2001
• IBM Research "Award for Excellence in Internet Research" (approx. USD 100.000), 1999
• IEEE Fellow, 1999
• Outstanding Paper Award, 11th Annual ED-MEDIA World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, 1999
• Governor at the "International Council for Computer Communication" ICCC, 1999-2005
• “Recognition of Service Award”, ACM, contribution as General Co-Chair during the Sixth ACM International Multimedia Conference, 1998
• “Best Teaching Award” in the Computer Science Department of the TU Darmstadt, 1997/1998
• “Certificate of Appreciation” Award, IEEE Computer Society, Organization of the “IEEE Multimedia Systems 96”, 1996
• “Certificate of Appreciation” Award, IEEE Computer Society, for developing the concept and initiating a new IEEE magazine within the multimedia area, 1994
• “Certificate of Appreciation” Award, IEEE Computer Society, for contributing to the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1993
• “First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award” by IBM, 1992

	Ralf Steinmetz und Klaus Wehrle (Hrsg.) Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications China Machine Press 2008 ISBN  9787111236474
	Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt Multimedia Systems (chin)   Auflage 2007 ISBN
	Max Mühlhäuser, Guido Rößling und Ralf Steinmetz (Hrsg.) DeLFI 2006: Die 4. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. GI-Edition-Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), P-87 Köllen Verlag September 2006 ISBN 978-3-88579-181-2
	Ralf Steinmetz und Klaus Wehrle (Hrsg.) Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications Springer Verlag September 2005 ISBN 354029192-X
	Ralf Steinmetz und Klara Nahrstedt Multimedia Applications Springer Verlag April 2004 ISBN 3540408495
	Ralf Steinmetz und Klara Nahrstedt Multimedia Systems Springer Verlag April 2004 ISBN 3540408673
	Ralf Steinmetz und Klara Nahrstedt Multimedia Fundamentals Volume 1, 2nd Edition Prentice Hall Januar 2002 ISBN 0130313998
	Lars Wolf, David Hutchison, Ralf Steinmetz Quality of Service - IWQoS 2001. 9th International Workshop Karlsruhe, Germany, June 6-8, 2001. Proceedings Springer Verlag Mai 2001 ISBN 354042217X
	Ralf Steinmetz: Multimedia-Technologie: Grundlagen, Komponenten und Systeme 3. Auflage mit CD Springer Verlag Oktober 2000 ISBN 3540673326
	Stephan Fischer, Achim Steinacker, Reinhard Bertram, Ralf Steinmetz Open Security Springer Verlag Juli 1998 ISBN 354064654X
	Ralf Steinmetz und Wolfgang Effelsberg Video Compression Techniques dpunkt-Verlag August 1998 ISBN 3920993136
	Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications Prentice Hall 1995 ISBN 0133244350
	Ralf Steinmetz Occam 2 Hüthig Verlag 1987 ISBN 3-7785-1437-7