Dr. Habtamu Abie is currently a senior research scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, and has many years of experience in computing, both as practitioner and researcher, including over five years’ experience in building large consortia and leading technical R&D work, both in industry-driven and multinational projects. He has a solid and extensive background in the design and development of real-time systems for controlling and monitoring particle accelerators in distributed and complex environments, the analysis, modelling and development of control programmes and software development tools for telecommunications applications using formal methods and tools, the design and development of a customer care and billing system, and the design, modelling and development of security for distributed messaging and object computing systems with special emphasis on MQseries, CORBA security, CORBA firewall security, and the security of EJB and DCOM.

Habtamu has been a fellow at CERN, and has been elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS) “for outstanding contributions to computer science and leadership in the profession”. He participates as a reviewer and member of the technical program committee in international conferences and workshops and reviews scientific papers in international journals. His past and present research interests encompass security (protocols, requirements, policy, privacy, trust, risk management, DRM, etc.) in distributed and communications systems, architecture and methodology, formal methods and tools, hard real-time systems, and mobile, ubiquitous and ambient intelligent computing.

Originally Published in, to Wit Telektronikk Vol. 96 No.3-2000, ISSN 0085-7130, 47-52, 2000