Leonard Plugge

Leonard Plugge received his Masters degree in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Utrecht, where he specialized in machine learning. In 1992 he received his PhD from the Medical Faculty at University Maastricht for his thesis on machine aided medical diagnosis of Alzheimer and other forms of dementia.

From 1993 Leonard worked at the dept. of Computer Science as associate professor where he did research on knowledge management and the use of the Internet. Among others, he introduced the Internet as a private network (Intranet) for the Dutch police forces and as cross border extranet for communication with the police forces in Germany, Belgium and France.

After a brief period as manager at the Learning Lab of the Maastricht McLuhan Instituut, in 2001 Leonard was installed as executive secretary of the Scientific Technical Council (WTR) of the SURF Foundation (wtr.surf.nl/wtr/en/). The WTR is an independent advisory council for the Board of the SURF Foundation and all higher education institutions in The Netherlands.
More information about Leonard is available at www.plugge.org