Dick C. A. Bulterman (born 1951) is a senior researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, where he heads the Distributed Multimedia Languages and Interfaces theme. He is also a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Dr. Bulterman was President and CEO of

FX Palo Alto Laboratory FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. (FXPAL) was a research center for Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. FXPAL employed roughly 25 Ph.D. scientists conducting research in a variety of fields spanning information retrieval, multimedia computing, HCI, and smart en ...

(FXPAL) from 2013–2015. Dr. Bulterman has made fundamental contributions to the fields of computer science and multimedia systems development. As of 2011, he had an h-index of 25, and his publications had been cited more than 2,400 times. He has also made significant contributions to the development and specification of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL).Bulterman, D.C.A., & Rutledge, L. (2008)
''SMIL 3.0''
. New York, NY: Springer. Dr. Bulterman received a Ph.D. in computer science from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

(USA) in 1982. He also holds a Sc.M. in computer science from Brown University (1977) and a B.A. in economics from Hope College (1973). He is also a member of the Arts Council of the

Protestant Church of Amsterdam Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

. He was born in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, and lives with his family in Amsterdam.

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Dick Bulterman's Web site at CWI.

Dick Bulterman's Web site at FXPAL.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bulterman, Dick 1951 births Living people Dutch computer scientists Hope College alumni Researchers in distributed computing People from Amstelveen Brown University alumni Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam