Žiga Turk

Žiga Turk is a Professor and Chair in Construction Informatics at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering at the University of Ljubljana. Born in 1962, he holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and a M.Sc. in Computer Science, all University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

His interests include construction informatics (construction information technology), computer integrated construction, internet, Web and grid computing, design communication, philosophy of conceptual modeling and CAD. He wrote over 100 papers on these subjects. He held graduate and undergraduate courses in Ljubljana, Istanbul, Zagreb and Stockholm. More in a detailed CV.

In Slovenia he has been known as the founding editor of the Moj Mikro magazine (1984). He has been setting up Web servers since 1993. His most popular Internet inventions are the Virtual Shareware Library (now evolved into shareware.com) and the Woda database tool.

ADDRESSES:

Prof.Dr. Ziga Turk
FGG-IKPIR-KGI
Jamova 2
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

+386-1-4768-622 (office)
+386-1-4250-681 (fax)

icq: 136233841
skype: ziga.turk
http://www.zturk.com/
zturk+www@itc.fgg.uni-lj.si