Computer Science Dep., Faculty of European Studies - "Babes-Bolyai" University

Postal Address	Str. E. de Martonne nr. 1 3400 Cluj-Napoca Romania
Telephon	+40 64 405300
Fax	+40 64 190251
E-mail	fbota@euro.ubbcluj.ro

Florin Bota - holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, since 1998, with a thesis on "Client/Server Programming in Windows", and a M.A. in Computer Science (Distributed Computing) from the same University since 1999, with a thesis on "Intranet Programming". Currently he is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Since October 1998 he is Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of European Studies of the "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, teaching "Communication systems" and "Basics of Internet".

In March of 1999 he was at the "Joszef Attila" University of Szeged, Hungary, for studying "Client/Server Programming in Internet", in the ambit of a CEEPUS project mobility.

In October 1999 Florin Bota was at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, for studying "Distance Learning Using the Internet", in the ambit of a TEMPUS project mobility. During this period he worked on new technologies for distance education, and in particular on Internet applications using XML, contributing to the design and the implementation of the authoring tool described in the paper.