Tom van Engers
Abstract of the presentation
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Bio:
Van Engers studied Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at the Utrecht University 1990-1994 where he graduated in two specialisations; Cognition and Representation and Cognitive Ergonomics. Van Engers received his PhD in 2001for the thesis Knowledge Management; the Role of Mental Models in Business Systems Design at the faculty Mathematics and Information Sciences at the Free University in Amsterdam. Van Engers is professor in Juridical Knowledge Management at the Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam.
Van Engers works at the Ministry of Finance since 1983. From 1983 he worked at the Automation Directorate (Directie Automatisering der Rijksbelastingen (DAR)) at the Development Department (Bureau Ontwikkeling Automatiseringsprojecten). He works as Manager Research at the Project Organisation Artificial Intelligence and Audit Automation from 1990 until 2000. In that period he is the responsible project manager for many innovative projects (e,g, risk detection, natural language processing, data mining and digital intelligent agents on the Internet). Van Engers represents the Ministry of Finances in the interdepartmental working group Knowledge-based Systems from1999 until 1996. From 1996 until 1999 Van Engers is co-chair of the Knowledge Management working group. From 2000 on he works for the Design department (Centre for Process and Product Design) as programme manager for the research programme POWER (Programme for and Ontology-based Working Environment for Rules and regulations).
Events: Geo Information Systems (GIS)