Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski, M.A.

This Web page exists because I’m an alumnus of CLUE: I studied Computational Linguistics from 1992 until 1998.

I was the first webmaster of the department. From May 1995 until March 1998 I was CLUE’s system administrator. I managed 30 PA-RISC workstations running HP-UX and about 150 users. During this time we went through several major upgrades: The coax network cabling was replaced with twisted pair, HP-UX 9 was replaced by 10.20 and the 720s and 735s were replaced with B132Ls.

During winter semester 1995/1996 and summer semester 1996 I taught the introductory courses.

I also designed a number of LaTeX classes for slides, theses, and the CLUE Technical Reports. The mpreport and mparticle classes are also used outside of CLUE.

In 1998 I received my master’s degree; the topic of my master’s thesis was NLP-supported Full-Text Retrieval.

During winter semesters 1999/2000 and 2001/2002, and summer semester 2002, I came back to CLUE to teach courses on SGML and document processing, Perl, and Ruby.

By the way, I’m the one who came up with the acronym “CLUE” and who designed the first logo for CLUE.

If you’re looking for information that used to be here, please check my private server.