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Biography
Gérard Comyn is currently Acting Director of the directorate 'ICT addressing societal challenges' and head of the “ICT for Health” Unit. Before joining the “ICT for Health” unit he was head of the IST research strategy unit in DG INFSO, European Commission. He used to be coordinator of the evaluation activities of the Esprit Programme, of the calls and Work Programme updates, of the results dissemination and of the cooperation between Esprit and the other programmes.
Before joining the Commission he used to be Managing Director of ECRC (European Computer Industry Research Centre, 1989-1994), an international industry-led research centre in Munich, owned by Bull, ICL and Siemens; Professor in the University of Lille between 1972 and 1989; Director of the Computing centre at the University of Cumana, Venezuela in 1971 and 1970; researcher at the University of Lille and at the IBM research centre of Neuilly, France, in 1969 and 1970.
Gérard Comyn has published number of national and international publications related to theoretical computer sciences, to Artificial Intelligence Languages (mainly Logic and Object Oriented Programming) and to Medical Informatics.
