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 retired professor in computer science from the Eindhoven University of Technology with this professional website Music: This is currently my "full time" occupation. It consists of playing the accordion, arranging music for accordion solo, ensemble and orchestra, and maintenance, repair and tuning of accordions. Until 2014 I was conductor of the accordion orchestra Avanti. In 2014 Avanti reached the "superieure categorie" (the highest category defined by Vlamo). I play the piano, piano-accordion, button accordion (C-griff), accordina and bass accordion and am a member of Accordeana (in Helmond) and the Nederlands Symfonisch AccordeonOrkest. I also play in the accordion quintet ARTE, with enthusiastic accordion players from the Eindhoven region, and the accordion quintet Kwintissimo with enthusiastic accordion players from all over the Netherlands. Recently I also joined "Air d'Accordeon" in Weert. 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 repair and tune accordions. I cannot stand it when my (or someone else's) accordion is not working properly or out of tune so I have learned to repair and tune accordions. I learned the first basics from Henk Vos and later attended the Accordion Craft Academy, run by Victoria accordions, to become fully qualified according to the standards of Italian accordion manufacturing, maintenance and repair. (I completed all four modules (tiers) of the Academy on repair techniques.) Photography: Many public and private images are served by my server de-bra.nl. 3D printing: When something breaks and it can be fixed with a plastic part I design it and print on my Makerbot or my FlashForge Creator Pro. email: p.m.e.de.bra at gmail.com skype: paul_debra professional homepage: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/ personal homepage: http://www.de-bra.nl/ If you happen to know my home phone number and try to call, be aware that we block incoming calls with a witheld number.

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).
• Public photos are availablee.
• 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.
• Sheet music archive of the Nederlands Symfonisch AccordeonOrkest. This is password protected.

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 was a (full) Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology and is now retired. phone: +31 40 2472602 email: debra at tue.nl skype: paul_debra professional homepage: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/ personal homepage: http://www.de-bra.nl/ If you happen to know my home phone number and try to call, be aware that we block incoming calls with a witheld number.

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.

Short list of past public professional functions of Paul De Bra

• Former Scientific director of the Research School SIKS (2011-2017). Honorary member of SIKS since September 2017.
• Former president of User Modeling Inc. (and member of the advisory committee of UM Inc. since July 2017).
• Initiator of the (now discontinued) Web Science bachelor program at the TU/e
• Former treasurer of the Computer Science Foundation (Stichting voor Informatica) of the computer science deparment of the TU/e.
• Former treasurer of the ASPT Foundation (Advanced Software Productivity Tools) of the information systems group of the TU/e.

Opportunities / Vacancies

As I am retired I am no longer taking on any new interns, master students, PhD students or any other types of collaborators.
For job opportunities at TU/e, please visit the university website www.tue.nl/jobs.

Miscelaneous Highlights

• Valedictory Lecture: October 13, 2017, 16:00 in the Blauwe Zaal of the Eindhoven University of Technology.
• Keynote talk at the ACM UMAP 2017 conference (Bratislava, July 10, 2017). (slides used during the presentation)
• DSC/e lecture on Expert-Driven versus Data-Driven adaptation (TU/e, October 6, 2014). There are slides and a presentation video made available by DSC/e.
• 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.
• Information on the AHA project and the GALE project is available, including software.
• The full text of my inaugural speach is available online.