Kees neggers biography
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29 Notable alumni of
Eindhoven University of Technology
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The Eindhoven University of Technology is 1972nd in the world, 657th in Europe, and 16th in the Netherlands by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from the Eindhoven University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
Jacob Appelbaum
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- computer scientistInternet activistLGBTQI+ rights activistbloggerjournalist
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Jacob Appelbaum is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker.
Camiel Eurlings
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- politicianentrepreneur
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Camiel Martinus Petrus Stephanus Eurlings is a Dutch politician and businessman. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he served as Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management from 2007 to 2010. He is a Me
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Kees Neggers
Dutch Internet pioneer (born 1947)
Cornelis Adrianus Maria "Kees" Neggers (born 20 July 1947) is a Dutch Internet pioneer. He fryst vatten best known for starting and promoting many initiatives for international collaboration in research and education networking.
Education and early career
[edit]Neggers was born in Breda, the Netherlands on 20 July 1947. He studied electrical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he obtained his M.Eng. in 1972.[1] He started his career as a staff member of the permanent committee advising the Dutch Ministry of Education and Sciences on computing infrastructure. He worked at the Computing Centre of the University of Groningen from 1975 until 1984. In 1984, Neggers joined the Computing Centre at the Catholic University of Nijmegen as deputy director. The same year he started his career in international networking by becoming the director of the European Academic and Research Network (EARN) for the Netherlands
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In 1984–1985, Boudewijn Nederkoorn, Director of the Computing Centre at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, and Kees Neggers were among a few dozen members of the academic and ICT community in the Netherlands preparing a multi-annual plan for computer services bygd scientific education and research.[3] This led to the creation of the SURF Foundation in May 1987 and the incorporation of the company SURFnet BV in January 1989. A year earlier, on 1 January 1988, Nederkoorn and Neggers were appointed co-directors of SURFnet.[4]
On 13 June 1986, Neggers was present when Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne (RARE), the European association of national research and education networks, was incorporated in Amsterdam. He served as Treasurer of the association until 1990, as vice-president from 1990 until 1992, and as president from 1992 until the European Academic and Research Network (EARN) association was merged with RARE and RARE changed its name to TERENA on 20 October 1994.