ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter KOCH

Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

Hans-Sachs-Gasse 14/3;

A-8010 Graz

Austria

http://www.aitbiz.com

TEL:+43(316)835359-0

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kochw@ait.co.at

 AIT is specialized in information engineering and development of information systems tailored to the complex environments for clients in very different markets. AIT developed automation systems for numerous projects in the fields of public administration and industry management applications. Due to AIT’s comprehensive experience the company also successfully carried out change management of IT-environments.

The customer base comes from the industry as well as from the public administration. One of the main customers is the local administration of Graz (Magistrat Graz). Dedicated Information Systems based on midrange computers (UNIX-style) have been developed for more than a dozen departments and AIT provides ongoing support services for the clients. Other governmental customers come from the regional government (workflow management system), political parties (newspaper archive) or the Ministry of Education. Industry projects include for example the automation of the production process of a window producing company or sawmills. Since 1999  AIT focuses on research work for example on the application of interoperability standards in world-wide search and retrieval of distributed data bases  (eg. ISO-23950 or XML over http).

Currently AIT is partner in the EU-funded project COVAX - Contemporary Culture Virtual Archives in XML  and coordinates another IST-Project: REGNET – Cultural heritage in Regional Networks. AIT has extensive experience in the computerisation administrative processes especially in the social and health care domain.

Curricula vitae

Dr.Walter Koch

Dr. W. Koch received a PhD in Mathematics and Physics from University of Graz in 1970. He is shareholder and director for AIT Ltd. (Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH.), and is an Associate Professor at the University of Graz and  Guest Professor at the University of Krems. Prof. Koch's relevant experience includes:

From 1976 to 1998: Head of different research institutes at JOANNEUM RESEARCH Ltd. In Graz: Consultant to different national and international organizations (eg UNESCO, DFG, EC, Austrian ministries, Graz municipality) Member of several international and international scientific associations (eg. ICOM, ÖGDI, ONORM, VÖB, UNESCO). Project experience: bibliographic and health care (eg. NDSNET – Nephrology Data Systems Network) information systems, IT-management, EU Projects (TAP, Raphael, TenTelecom, IST), ESA.

Dr.Günther Stark MD

(Intermed consulting   Bruck-Mur/Graz, consultant to AIT)

Born in Graz 12.01.1958

Studies of medicine at the university of Vienna and Graz

Graduation in 1988 in Graz

Specialist in anaesthesiology and intensive care

Special education in telecommunication, computer networking

promoter of the first Styrian internet access and service provider

information manager in the central office of the Styrian hospitals

Medical Marketing and Management Consulting

Provider of specialised medical WWW information server

Mag. Gerda Koch

Mag. Gerda Koch received a Master of Arts in English with a combination of studies in Economics and Law at the University of Graz, and also received an academic degree in a course of studies on Multimedia at the University of Graz. Since 1991 Mag. Koch is employed at AIT, Applied Information Technique Ltd. There she worked for diverse informatics projects as eg. a production automation system for a window-producing company, or the database publishing production of the yearly published Austrian Statistics on Non-University Education. She also collaborated in the European Union TenTelecom project MOSAIC (Museums Over States And vIrtual Culture) for the Austrian partner of the project. Since 1998 Mag. Koch is managing director of AIT Ltd. She now focuses on cultural digital content provision as she works for the national project MODOK (Modular Documentation System) for the Austrian Ministry of Science and Traffic and the EU-project COVAX (Contemporary Culture Virtual Archive in XML).