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Me
Work at NLR
As of Sept. 1996, I'm working as software engineer for the Air Traffic Management Department at the NLR (Dutch: Nationaal Lucht-en ruimtevaart Laboratorium), also known as the Dutch Aerospace Laboratory .

I am currently working on Air Traffic Controller software for various internal and european projects. One of the projects is developing our own Tower Research Simulator. I am involved in HMI development and managing the software base.

 

 
Education

From mid-1995 until mid-1996, I did my senior year in the SPA-group (System programs & architecture) of the computer science faculty of the Twente University. 

 

 
H.263 & Video compression
I graduated on the topic Video compression techniques over low-bandwidth lines. My thesis is online available here as a postscript gzipped version (220KB) . Some people believe it is well-written, but who am I to argue that?

For more information, please visit my H.263 page . It include links to other sites regarding video compression and more important: the source code of my fast, revolutionary H.263 encoder.

Unfortunately, I have not spend time on this work anymore the last 10 years. Nevertheless, I still get a lot of mails about this subject, and I'm happy to anwers them...

 
Sports
For years, I was an active member of the D.A.V. KRONOS Track and Field club. Information about this club can be found at the KRONOS Plaza, a 'moi' initiative. I've also been running for AAC and later A.V. Phoenix to keep myself in shape. Now, I running for myself when time permits...

ATDOR: ATLET Replacement Project

In my scarse, free, spare time, I'm developing a prototype of a ahtletics program that might replace ATLET is some time in the future. Click here to go to the official ATDOR homepage.

 

 
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