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Paul J. Kühn received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1967 and 1972, respectively. From 1973 to 1977, he was head of a research group for traffic research in computer and communications systems at the University of Stuttgart. In 1977, he joined Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ., where he worked in the field of computer communications. In 1978, he was appointed professor for Communications Switching and Transmission at the University of Siegen, Germany. Since 1982, he is holding the chair of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His areas of interest are communication network architectures and protocols, computer engineering, performance modelling and evaluation, wherein he authored more than 100 technical publications.

Professor Kühn is a member of IEEE, ACM, ITG (German Information Technology Society), and GI (German Informatics Society). He has been appointed member of Communications Switching Committee of the ITG, IFIP Working Groups 6.2, 6.3 and 7.3 and International Advisory Council (IAC) of the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC). He was appointed Vice President of the ITC in 1985, and Governor of the ICCC in 1987. 1989 Professor Kühn has been elected Fellow IEEE. He was Program Chairman of ICCC 1986, Conference Chairman and Co-Chair of the IFIP Conferences "Broadband Communications" in 1998 and 1999, respectively, of various national conferences on Computer Communication and Performance Modelling, Editor and Guest Editor in the areas of Communication Networks for ETT and IEEE-JSAC. In 1991, Professor Kühn was appointed Professeur Associé at the Télécom Paris/ENST. 1991 Professor Kühn has been elected Chairman of the International Advisory Council IAC of the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC). In 1993, he was appointed Member of the Academy of Sciences of Heidelberg, Germany, and in 1995, Member of the Academy Leopoldina, Halle. In 1996, Professor Kühn has been awarded Dr. h.c. for Technology by the Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, and in 1998 Dr.-Ing. E. h. by the University of Technology of Dresden, Germany. 1998 he was appointed Honorary Member of the Senat of the University of Mannheim, Germany, for his support of the new department of Computer Engineering. Also in 1998, he received the Christopher Columbus Gold Medal from the Council of the City of Genova, Italy, for his contributions in the field of telecommunications.

Professor Kühn has held various responsible academic, research and industrial positions, among them Chairmann of the Board of the CTIT of the University of Twente, Coordinator of the DFG Research Centre Program on Mobile Communications, Chairman of the Graduate College Program "Parallel and Distributed Systems", Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Course Director of the international Master of Science Program "Information Technology" at the University of Stuttgart. For more than 10 years Professor Kühn served as a member of the Board of Directors of communication technology companies.