Award winner 2002: Professor Christian S. Jensen
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The Jury's grounds for selection: Professor Christian S. Jensen of the University of
Aalborg, Denmark, is the winner of Telenor's Nordic Research Award for
2002. This award was established in 1997 to reward efforts promoting the
development of IT and telecommunications. The winner is awarded a diploma
and NOK 250 000, which can be given to individuals or groups in the Nordic
countries. This year's theme for the award was "Mobility
and wireless access to the Internet - technologies, new services and applications".
Candidates from Sweden, Finland and Denmark covering various aspects of
this theme have been nominated. Professor Jensen founded and heads a research group at the University of Aalborg in the field of databases with special focus on representation of moveable objects. This group has established itself as one of the leaders in this field internationally, and in recent years the emphasis has been on problems connected to mobile Internet services. Mobile Internet services represent a growth field that will offer a plethora of new areas of application for users, but will also make heavy demands for solutions that will allow these services to function on different radio systems and with a multitude of new actors. The Jury has found that Professor Jensen and his group have made and will continue to make important contributions to developments in this field. Confirmation of this can be found in the fact that Professor Jensen cooperates extensively with the industry, and in particular has been involved as a consultant and member of the board of newly established companies. Professor Jensen has a Ph.D. and Dr. Techn. degree.
In addition to his position as a Professor at the University of Aalborg,
he holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Cardiff, is a
Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona, and is also an Associate
Professor at Agder Regional College in Norway. His list of publications
numbers more than 100 titles and he has been an editor and consultant
for leading international trade magazines and conferences. |
