Hans Scholten – författare

The first International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS) was organized by Prof. K. Rothermel and Prof. W. Effelsberg, and took place in Stuttgart in 1992. It had the form of a national forum for discussion on multimedia issues related to communications. The succeeding event was "attached" as a workshop to the German Computer Science Conference (GI Jahrestagung) in 1994 in Hamburg, organized by Prof. W. Lamersdorf. The chairs of the third IDMS, E. Moeller and B. Butscher, enhanced the event to become a very successful international meeting in Berlin in March 1996. This short overview on the first three IDMS events is taken from the preface of the IDMS’97 proceedings (published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1309), written by Ralf Steinmetz and Lars Wolf. Both, Ralf Steinmetz as general chair and Lars Wolf as program chair of IDMS’97, organized an excellent international IDMS in Darmstadt. Since 1998, IDMS has moved from Germany to other European cities to emphasize the international character it had gained in the previous years. IDMS’98 was organized in Oslo by Vera Goebel and Thomas Plagemann at UniK – Center for Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo. Michel Diaz, Phillipe Owezarski, and Patrick Sénac successfully organized the sixth IDMS event, again outside Germany. IDMS''99 took place in Toulouse at ENSICA. IDMS 2000 continued the tradition and was hosted in Enschede, the Netherlands.

The first International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS) was organized by Prof. K. Rothermel and Prof. W. Effelsberg, and took place in Stuttgart in 1992. It had the form of a national forum for discussion on multimedia issues related to communications. The succeeding event was "attached" as a workshop to the German Computer Science Conference (GI Jahrestagung) in 1994 in Hamburg, organized by Prof. W. Lamersdorf. The chairs of the third IDMS, E. Moeller and B. Butscher, enhanced the event to become a very successful international meeting in Berlin in March 1996. This short overview on the first three IDMS events is taken from the preface of the IDMS’97 proceedings (published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1309), written by Ralf Steinmetz and Lars Wolf. Both, Ralf Steinmetz as general chair and Lars Wolf as program chair of IDMS’97, organized an excellent international IDMS in Darmstadt. Since 1998, IDMS has moved from Germany to other European cities to emphasize the international character it had gained in the previous years. IDMS’98 was organized in Oslo by Vera Goebel and Thomas Plagemann at UniK – Center for Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo. Michel Diaz, Phillipe Owezarski, and Patrick Sénac successfully organized the sixth IDMS event, again outside Germany. IDMS'99 took place in Toulouse at ENSICA. IDMS 2000 continued the tradition and was hosted in Enschede, the Netherlands.

There have been major advances in technologies to support crisis response in the last few years. However, many aspects related to the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster management are still open. To advance the systems and make them intelligent, an extensive collaboration is required between emergency responders, disaster managers, system designers and researchers. To facilitate this process the Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) conference has been organized since 2005. Gi4DM is coordinated by the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS)  and the ad-hoc Committee on Risk and Disaster Management. This volume presents the results of the Gi4DM 2012 conference, held in Enschede, the Netherlands, on 13-15 December . It contains a selection of around 30 scientific and 25 best-practice peer-reviewed papers. The 2012 Gi4DM focuses on the intelligent use of geo-information, semantics and situation awareness.

There have been major advances in technologies to support crisis response in the last few years. However, many aspects related to the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster management are still open. To advance the systems and make them intelligent, an extensive collaboration is required between emergency responders, disaster managers, system designers and researchers. To facilitate this process the Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) conference has been organized since 2005. Gi4DM is coordinated by the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS)  and the ad-hoc Committee on Risk and Disaster Management. This volume presents the results of the Gi4DM 2012 conference, held in Enschede, the Netherlands, on 13-15 December . It contains a selection of around 30 scientific and 25 best-practice peer-reviewed papers. The 2012 Gi4DM focuses on the intelligent use of geo-information, semantics and situation awareness.

There have been major advances in technologies to support crisis response in the last few years. However, many aspects related to the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster management are still open. To advance the systems and make them intelligent, an extensive collaboration is required between emergency responders, disaster managers, system designers and researchers. To facilitate this process the Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) conference has been organized since 2005. Gi4DM is coordinated by the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS)  and the ad-hoc Committee on Risk and Disaster Management. This volume presents the results of the Gi4DM 2012 conference, held in Enschede, the Netherlands, on 13-15 December . It contains a selection of around 30 scientific and 25 best-practice peer-reviewed papers. The 2012 Gi4DM focuses on the intelligent use of geo-information, semantics and situation awareness.

Viele Menschen werden sich die Frage gestellt haben, warum es gerade die Europäer waren, die es fertig brachten, die Kenntnis der Naturgesetze auf einen Stand zu führen, die es ermöglichte, durch ihre Nutzung die Menschheit in ein technisches Zeitalter zu führen. Warum waren es nicht die Chinesen, die Japaner, Inder, Ägypter, die antiken Griechen, Römer, die Araber, Mayas oder Azteken.Sie alle haben es zu großartigen kulturellen Leistungen gebracht, zur chinesischen Mauer, zu den Pyramiden. Die Griechen haben mathematische und physikalische Lehrsätze entwickelt. Aber: Eine unsichtbare, unüberwindbare Schwelle scheint alle daran gehindert zu haben, einen Schritt weiterzugehen. Dieser Schritt wäre gewesen, die Kraft des Dampfes, explosiver Gase, der Elektrizität und Atome zu nutzen. Den neuzeitlichen Europäern gelang dieser Schritt.Diese technische Revolution, die mit der Erfindung der Dampfmaschine vor 250 Jahren begann, bildet einen Ausnahmefall der Evolution wie der Mensch selbst. Als Wesen, das sich mit Hilfe seiner Intelligenz in die Lage versetzte, eine eigene für ihn nützliche, von der natürlichen Evolution abweichende Welt zu schaffen, in der er sich einer neuen Evolution auf einer von ihm stark veränderten Erde ausgesetzt sieht.Der Autor Hans Scholten ist dieser Frage in jahrelanger Kleinarbeit nachgegangen musste feststellen, dass die Antwort eine kleine Gruppe von Menschen gibt: Wissenschaftler, die den Mut besaßen, für ihre neu gewonnenen Erkenntnisse um Unterstützung der Zeitgenossen zu kämpfen. Dieses Buch schildert die Stationen der Entfesselung von der Angst und den Zwängen seit dem Beginn der Naturwissenschaften im neuzeitlichen Westeuropa unter dem Mönch Albertus Magnus bis zu Albert Einstein. Dieser setzte mit der Entdeckung der Relativitätstheorie einen vorläufigen Schlusspunkt unter die bisherige Entwicklung und öffnete ein neues Kapitel, das der Relativität aller Materie, aller Entfernungen und aller Bewegungen.

Klaus Schmidt trifft als Gerichtsreferendar am Amtsgericht in Gemünd/Eifel eine Kollegin, in die er als Jurastudent in München verliebt war. Sie hatte damals die Beziehung beendet. Sie ist Jüdin.Sie entdecken ihre Liebe neu. Gemeinsam fahren sie nach Buchenwald. Die letzten Nachrichten ihrer Eltern stammen aus diesem Konzentrationslager.Klaus erfährt dort, dass viele KZ-Insassen von Buchenwald zur Vergasung in den Osten transportiert worden sind. ,Arbeiteten'' die Vernichtungslager nicht schnell genug, ,halfen'' Erschießungskommandos der SS nach, in den Wäldern an der Bahnstrecke.Sein Vater, im Krieg Eisenbahnbeamter in Lublin, könnte solche Transporte zum Vernichtungslager Sobibor über das Wochenende auf ein Abstellgleis geleitet haben, weil die SS von samstags bis montags keine Erschießungen vornahm. Ihre Eltern könnten in einem solchen Transport gewesen sein.Nach einem Aufenthalt in Weimar, die Stadt liegt vor den Toren Buchenwalds, spricht er mir ihr über die Möglichkeit, dass ihre Eltern durch seinen Vater umgekommen sein können. Sie trennt sich von ihm.