• name: Børre Johan Ludvigsen
• born: 1. March 1946 Fredrikstad, Norway
• address: Svingen 10, 1671 Kråkerøy (Fredrikstad)
• civilian status: separated, 2 children
• languages: english, norwegian, functional arabic and german
• pictures: portrait - action
• 'Home page' (http://www.hiof.no/~borrel/)

• primary: Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company School, Saida, Libanon. 1952-1959
• secondary: American Community School, Beirut, Lebanon. 1959-64.
• higher: School of Architecture, Kingston College of Art (Kingston Polytechnic, subsequently Kingston University), Kingston-Upon-Thames, England. 1964-1970.

• high school diploma - American Community School, Beirut, Libanon, 1964.
• diploma in architecture, first class honors, Kingston Polyechnic, 1970.
• member of Norwegian Architectural Society (civil architect)
• associate professor from 1990
• professor from 1994.
• full professor from 1996.

• practicing architect (employed) 1970 - 1980
• private architectural practice 1980 - 1990
• software developer and consultant 1981 - 1990
• visiting professor of information technology at the Oslo School of Architecture 1988 - 1990
• associate professor and professor at department of computer science, Østfold University College, Halden, Norway 1990 - present.

• 1970 - 1990: design and planning of a broad range of architectural work including housing, buildings of worship, schools, commercial and industrial buildings.
• 1980 - 1985: founding partner and consultant for IT-services of the Norwegian Association for practicing architects.
• 1980 - 1990: design, programming and planning of information systems for the architectural and building industry. Integrated design of workstation environments for planners and air-traffic control.
• 1990 - present: teaching and research in multimedia and information architecture at university level.
• 1990 - present: tutoring, guidance, reading and examination of bachelor's and master's degree students at Østfold College, University of Trondheim, University of Surrey and MIT Media Lab.

• various advisory information techology committees at the Norwegian Research Council 1983 - 1990
• member of planning committee for NS3459 (Norwegian Standard for electronic building specification transactions) and author of the second edition
• member of the board of trustees of the Norwegian Building Center 1985 - 1993
• founding member of The Norwegian chapter of the Internet Society

• various monographs on architecture 1975 - 1980
• reports and articles on information technology, theory and use for the building industry 1982 - 1990
• strategy reports on IT usage for the Noregian Research Council and Norwegian Practicing Architects 1984 - 1987
• NS 3459 users guide to the first edition 1985 and the second edition of NS3459 1993.
• articles on 'cyberspace as designed virtual space' for varoius publications including c-world, 3/1992, oluff at the University of Bergen 1992, the proceedings of the Norwegian Informatics Conference 1992, proceedings of INET 93, telektronikk , norwegian telecom 1994.
• articles and papers on remote workplace research in the proceedings of Uninett 93, WWW94 Cern, hoit 94 (home-oriented informatics, telematics & automation) Copenhagen 1994, and HØiT at Østfold College.
• articles on virtual space published at Home on the Web - http://nasrallah.ludvigsen.hiof.no/~ludvigs/webdoc/articles.html 1992 - 1994
• research on large multimedia webserver: Al Mashriq (http://almashriq.hiof.no/) a cultural multimedia server with 10 000 documents on Lebanon and the Levant 1993 - present
• research on remote workplace technology and domestic networking Home on the Web - http://www.ludvigsen.hiof.no/ 1993 - present
• research and development for UNINETT on PC-based realtime multimedia, digital broadcasting and network streaming http://www.hiof.no/smm 1995 - present
• research and development for Norwegian Broadcasting using the Internet as new broadcasting medium http://www.hiof.no/hiof/avd/it_aut/prosjekter/credit/nrkcredit.html 1995 - present
• Development of a Digital Documentation Center (http://www.aub.edu.lb/ddc/) for the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1997-present

• teaching at Med-Campus summer school - University of Izmir 1995 (http://abdallah.hiof.no/~borrel/izmir/abstract.html)
• Internet for journalists at Birzet University 1996 (http://abdallah.hiof.no/reiser/birzeit96/)

• marine archaeology - studies and excavations 1976 - 1983
• archaeology of tobacco pipes - research and reports 1975 - 1985
• building conservation 1980 - 1990
• archaeology - petroglyphs (rock carvings) new discoveries 1978 1980
• political and voluntary social work 1975 - 1995

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