ANDREJS SPEKTORS

                  Curriculum Vitae

    Born:           October 6, 1943, Palsmane, Latvia.

    Education:

      1958 - 1962 Riga Electromechanical College (REMC)
      1967 - 1974 University of Latvia (UL)

    Academic titles and degrees:

      1962 Technician of Electrical Communication Systems, REMC
      1974 Mathematician, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, the University of Latvia
      1981 Ph.D., (Astrophysics), P.N.Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow
      1992 Dr. phys., the University of Latvia


    Occupation:

      1962 - 1963 Riga City Telephone Company, Technician
      1963 - 1966 Military service, Yakutsk, Wireles Morse Code Operator
      1966 - 1968 Riga Region Telephone Company, Technician
      1968 - 1974 Radioastrophysical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences (AS), Engineer
      1974 - 1978 Radioastrophysical Observatory of the AS, Researcher
      1979 - 1983 Radioastrophysical Observatory of the AS, Head of Solar Physics Department
      1983 - 1985 Institute of Electronics and Computer Technics of the AS, Assistant Head of Laboratory
      1985 - 1987 Research Institute VEF, Head of Programming Environment Department for Communication Systems
      1987 - 1992 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, UL, Head of Applied Informatics Department
        since 1992 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, UL, Senior Scientist, Head of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory


    Experience:

      1962 - 1963 and 1966 - 1968 High-frequency telephony systems construction and supervision
      1963 - 1966 Radio communication, Morse code
      1968 - 1973 Radio telescope construction; cosmology and the general relativity
      1973 - 1983 Computer modelling of Solar flares
      1983 - 1985 Computer Network Systems supervision and security
      1985 - 1987 Software development for digital telephony
         since 1988 Natural Language Processing for Latvian
      1994 Member of Expert Team for COPERNICUS project proposals evaluation, Brussels
      1995 - 1997 Project manager for EU project ONOMASTICA - COPERNICUS in Latvia
      1995 - 1998 Project manager for EU project "Trans-European Linguistic Resources Infrastructure (TELRI)" in Latvia
         since 1997 Project manager for UN project "Universal Networking Language" in Latvia
      1999 - 2001 Project manager for EU project TELRI - II in Latvia
         since 2000 Manager of the CISCO Networking Regional Academy in Latvia
         since 2001 Project manager for Latvia, EU project CULTIVATE - CEE in Latvia
      Author or co-author of 61 articles


    Other Activities:

      since 1988 Member of the Association of Latvian Scientists
      since 1997 Member of the TELRI-Association (European organization)
         in   1997 Member of Board of the TELRI-Association
      since 2000 Member of Council of the Association of Latvian Scientists