Paul De Bra's personal website

(Photo taken at a lighthouse on the Hudson river around 1988. Click here for a more recent photo.)

My main activities are: Job: I'm a (full) professor in computer science at the Eindhoven University of Technology with this professional website Photography: Many public and private images are served by Zenfolio. Music: This is my most intense hobby, consisting of conducting, playing and arranging music. Until 2014 I was conductor of the accordion orchestra Avanti. I play the piano, piano-accordion, button accordion (C-griff), accordina and bass accordion and am a member of Accordeana (in Helmond) and REL (in Almere). I also play in an accordion quintet, ARTE, with enthusiastic accordion players from the Eindhoven region. I arrange all types of music for acordion and accordion orchestra and sometimes also compose something myself. All my arrangements are freely available from this site. I also tune (and repair) accordions. I simply cannot stand it when my (or someone else's) accordion is out of tune so I have learned to tune accordions (many thanks to Henk Vos). 3D printing: When something breaks and it can be fixed with a plastic part I design it and print on my Makerbot email: debra at win.tue.nl skype: paul_debra professional homepage: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/ personal homepage: http://www.de-bra.nl/

Main parts of this website:

• A description of our family.
• FREE arrangements for accordion orchestra.
  There are recordings of some pieces to illustrate the arrangements (only for composers who died at least 70 years ago).
• Photos: although all my photos are hosted by Zenfolio the private photos that are password protected are available here.
• Public information about the accordion orchestra Avanti is available in Dutch and English.
• Sheet music archive of Avanti. This is password protected.
• Sheet music archive of Accordeana. This is password protected.
• My (bad) experiences as customer.
  Because this deals mostly with companies in the Netherlands this page is in Dutch.

Prof. dr. P.M.E. De Bra

(Photo taken at a lighthouse on the Hudson river around 1988. Click here for a more recent photo.)

Paul De Bra is (full) Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology. phone: +31 40 2472602 email: debra at win.tue.nl skype: paul_debra professional homepage: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/ personal homepage: http://www.de-bra.nl/

The following information is available on Paul De Bra:

• A short biography, including education and jobs;
• A list of publications, with many publications included on-line;
• A personal page, describing family, friends and hobbies.

Course information (separate pages)

• 2ID65: Hypermedia and the Web.
  This is an on-line-only course.
• 2II15: Data Mining.
  This course is discontinued after 2012-2013.
• 2ID40: Human-Technology Interaction.
• 2ID55: Adaptive Hypermedia.

Short list of public professional functions of Paul De Bra

• Scientific director of the Research School SIKS and consequently also member of IPN
• President of User Modeling Inc.
• Chairman of the program board (programmaraad) of HOVO Brabant (education for senior people)
• Associate editor of the Journal IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
• Member of the Curriculum Advisory Board of the TU/e PDeng post-master program on User System Interaction
• Initiator of the Web Science bachelor program at the TU/e
• Treasurer of the Computer Science Foundation (Stichting voor Informatica) of the computer science deparment of the TU/e.
• Treasurer of the ASPT Foundation (Advanced Software Productivity Tools) of the information systems group of the TU/e.

Opportunities / Vacancies

Our research groups has no vacancies for summer interns, whether they come with their own funding or not.
For other types of job applications, please visit the group website wwwis.win.tue.nl.

Miscelaneous Highlights

• Invited talk at the Sofsem conference, Spindleruv Mlyn, Chech Republic, January 21-27, 2012.
• Invited talk at the Learntec conference and fair, Messe Karlsruhe, Germany, February 1-3, 2011.
• "Unkeynote" at the Web / Art / Science Camp, London, UK, November 6, 2010.
• Keynote talk at the WEBALT2006 conference.
• Photos of public (and private) events are hosted by Zenfolio. If you like that site, use code "V9S-JPM-YAX" to get a $5 discount when opening your own account there.
• Information on the AHA project is available, including software.
• The full text of the inaugural speach is available online.
• Consumer information (consumenteninformatie), in Dutch only. This is the story of our less than successful stories as consumers. I feel that when people publish their experiences on the Web consumers can find out more easily which companies or products to avoid. This information just reports on some incidents and are not statistically valid samples representing average experience between consumers and these companies.