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Ziga Turk

Žiga Turk is an associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geodesy 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 information technology, computer integrated construction, internet and Web, philosophy of CAD and modelling and also the world-wide-web, Perl, J.S. Bach, skiing, tennis ...

In Slovenia he has been known as the founding editor of the Moj Mikro magazine. He has been setting up Web servrs since 1993. His most popular Internet invention is the Virtual Shareware Library.

POUK (this is a link for my students)

VITAE

Born in Ljubljana, 1962.

Education: In 1986 graduates at Univ. of Ljubljana, Dept. of Civil Engineering . In 1989 receives master of science degree at Univ. of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrotechnics and Computer Science Computer Science Department with thesis Classes of Objects for the Modelling in Construction. In 1992 defends his Ph.D. thesis Environment for the Computer Integrated Design of Structures at University of Ljubljana, Dept. of Civil Engineering.

Positions:

1986-1989 Assistant Research Engineer, Univ. of Ljubljana, Institute of Structural and Earthquake Engineering and Building Informatics.
1989-1993 Assistant in Computer Science and CAAD, Univ. of Ljubljana, Department of Architecture.
1993-1998 Assistant Professor (for Computer Science and CAAD, Univ. of Ljubljana, Department of Architecture).
1997-1999: Visiting lecturer, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
1998-present: Associate Professor for information technology and documentation, Univ. of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering).
2001-present: Visiting Professor, Istanbul Technical University.

Memberships: Co-editor: Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction.Co-Chair CIB-W78 computer integrated construction, member IABSE WC6 etc., scienticic boards of journals and conferences.

Main Research Topics: Computer integrated construction, EDM systems, groupware, engineering information systems, engineering databases, computerised representation of engineering standards, object-oriented and logic programming in civil engineering, conceptual modelling, internet, web and mobile communications in construction.

Other: 1984-1987 founding editor of the first Yugoslav magazine on microcomputers "Moj mikro". Wrote two books (in Slovene) on C and C++ languages.

... another short is CV here!.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Over 90 books, papers and reports. The listing and summaries of publications in English and selected publications in Slovene language are available. Most include pointers to full texts which are password protected. Some recent drafts are available as well.

WEBLIOGRAPY

Webmaster of the faculty server Audrey (since 1993).
ICARIS system and several (since 1994). mailing lists, including support for the CIB-W78. Includes calendar and resource list (since 1994).
Since 1993 (Gopher) and 1994 (WWW) Virtual Shareware Library alias shareware.com. This has grown into a 3 million hits/day service on four continents (since 1993). Read short paper about it here..
Web pages for the Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (since 1995).
Web support for the workshop Construction on the Information Highway (1996).
National construction information system TIGRA.
European Masonry Database with Roko Zarnic (1996).
Faculty Web servers.
SCENIC Research Database (1997).
EASY Earthquake Slide Information System with Matej Fischinger and Tomo Cerovsek (1997).
CUMINCAD - Cumulative Index of CAD - with Bob Martens, TUV, (1998).
software.forAEC and CONNET Slovenia - mostly developed by PhD student Tomo Cerovsek (1999-2001).
Some Perl stuff including a Web Oriented Database WODA (the swiss army knife we use for Web development).
www.ddatabase.com - databases made simple.
www.rent-a-db.com databases made trivial (2000).
ISTforCE project website (2000-2002).
2002.ECPPM conference website (2001-2002).

PROJECTS

5th framework projects ISTforCE, ICCI, prodAEC ...
DG-XIII projects CONNET and I-SEEC
ESPRIT ToCEE project. My ToCEE files are here.
Cobra national research project.
Kondor national research project.
ETTN-CONNET.
MOPO with some of my mopo data.
Other projects.

TEACHING

Teaches architects a course on Computer science and CAD. Some of their project are on the web.
Teaches civil engineers descriptive geometry (looking for web contacts on the subject!)
Visiting professor (CMIT 558) at ITU.
Was visiting lecturer at KTH, Stockholm. Lectures Internet, Object-oriented systems and Communication in Construction are available on-line.
Teaching directory. Includes a lecture on Internet in Slovene language.

WEB

Copy of my bookmarks (as of 25.4.1997).
Some cool MIDI music and more .

FAQ

Ne, slovenska verzija te strani ne obstaja (No, there is no Slovenian version of this page).
No, I do not spend much time spell checking web pages :-(
My name is pronounced as if spelled like Zheegah Toork here is the 25k WAV that says it all.
My family name has no relation to the present state of Turkey (but might have some 500 years ago).
This page looks best from Tahiti or Aspen. Go there, you'll see for yourself. The difference caused by Netscape or Explorer is marginal.
Old homapages:

from the Mosaic age (1994-1997).
increasingly colorfull (1997-1998)
as you can see, this one goes back to basics.

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