Petrus Verbaeten, born April 23rd, usually called Pierre, is a

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emeritus in the

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Department at the

KU Leuven KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, ...

, and has more than 226 publications to its name. He managed the internet domain field

.be .be is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Belgium. As of November 2022 there are 1,746,459 registered domains. History The domain became active in 1989 and was administrated by Pierre Verbaeten of the Katholieke Universiteit ...

from 1989 to 2000.

Biography

Verbaeten studied

electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and graduated in 1969. The direction

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

was founded in 1971. His first contact with computer science was during his military service. He then followed

Applied Mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathemati ...

, in which a few computer science fields occurred.

Functions

* Former chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven * Chairman of the Board of Directors EURid of 2004 * Member in the DistriNet research group at KU Leuven * Administrator of the

top-level domain A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in ...

.be between 1989 and 2000 * Member DNS.be of 2000DNS
member Verbaeten
/ref> * Professor at KU Leuven since 1982

References

External links

Pierre Verbaeten on be.linkedin.com

Interview Beyond the beginning of .be
{{DEFAULTSORT:Verbaeten, Pierre Belgian computer scientists Academic staff of KU Leuven KU Leuven alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)