I will never forget the feeling of my glowing cheeks when I inserted the pac-man cartridge in my brand new Atari gaming console on Xmas Eve 1984 for the first time while the rest of my family who had gathered round the TV set was hoping that this new game device would not ruin the regular TV reception. This was so to speak the start of my interest in microelectronic. After two years time I advanced …showed first 75 words of 347 total…

…showed last 75 words of 347 total…engineer’s office in 1999 Internet and PC had become an everyday tool. Instead of Indian ink we used AutoCAD for planning and 3D-visualisations for our customers. Taking a glimpse into the future of IT we will on the one hand hopefully develop machines that serve and obey man and not make him a slave of an operating system and on the other hand not get lost in the sea of information the web provides today.