Karl Steinbuch
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Dr. Karl W. Steinbuch was a German computer scientist
, cyberneticist
, and electrical engineer
. He is one of the pioneers of the German computer science
, as well as with his Lernmatrix
an early pioneer of artificial neural network
s. Steinbuch also wrote about the societal implications of modern media.
and in 1944 he received his Phd
in physics. In 1948 Steinbuch joined the Standard Elektrik Lorenz (SEL, part of the ITT group
) in Stuttgart as a computer design engineer and later as a director of R&D, filing more than 70 patent
s. There Steinbuch completed the first European fully transistorized computer ER 56, marketed by SEL. In 1958 he became professor and director of the institute of technology for information processing (ITIV) of the University of Karlsruhe, where he retired in 1980.
In 1967 by his indictment-like bestselling book, and later by other bestselling books, he tried to influence the German education policy. Together with books from colleagues like Jean Ziegler
from Switzerland, Eric J. Hobsbawm from UK, and John Naisbitt
his books predicted the coming education disaster of the emerging civic lobby society.
Karl Steinbuch coined the term Informatik, the German word for Computer Science, in 1957.
Awards:
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, cyberneticist
Cybernetics
Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to information theory, control theory and systems theory, at least in its first-order form...
, and electrical engineer
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
. He is one of the pioneers of the German computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, as well as with his Lernmatrix
Lernmatrix
Lernmatrix, an associative-memory-like architecture of an artificial neural network, invented around 1960 by Karl Steinbuch.- External links :***...
an early pioneer of artificial neural network
Artificial neural network
An artificial neural network , usually called neural network , is a mathematical model or computational model that is inspired by the structure and/or functional aspects of biological neural networks. A neural network consists of an interconnected group of artificial neurons, and it processes...
s. Steinbuch also wrote about the societal implications of modern media.
Biography
Steinbuch studied at the University of StuttgartUniversity of Stuttgart
The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....
and in 1944 he received his Phd
PHD
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in physics. In 1948 Steinbuch joined the Standard Elektrik Lorenz (SEL, part of the ITT group
ITT Corporation
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) in Stuttgart as a computer design engineer and later as a director of R&D, filing more than 70 patent
Patent
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s. There Steinbuch completed the first European fully transistorized computer ER 56, marketed by SEL. In 1958 he became professor and director of the institute of technology for information processing (ITIV) of the University of Karlsruhe, where he retired in 1980.
In 1967 by his indictment-like bestselling book, and later by other bestselling books, he tried to influence the German education policy. Together with books from colleagues like Jean Ziegler
Jean Ziegler
Jean Ziegler is a former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats in the Federal Assembly of Switzerland from 1981 to 1999...
from Switzerland, Eric J. Hobsbawm from UK, and John Naisbitt
John Naisbitt
John Naisbitt is an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies. His first book Megatrends was published in 1982. It was the result of almost ten years of research. It was on the New York Times bestseller list for two years, mostly as #1...
his books predicted the coming education disaster of the emerging civic lobby society.
Karl Steinbuch coined the term Informatik, the German word for Computer Science, in 1957.
Awards:
- Wilhelm-Boelsche award - medal in Gold
- German non-fiction book award
- Gold medal award of the XXI. International Congresses on Aerospace Medicine
- Konrad Adenauer award of science
- Jakob Fugger award medal
- Medal of merit of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg
- member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- member, International Academy of Science.
- grants from a state government grants program, named „Karl-Steinbuch-Stipendium“
Books
Karl Steinbuch has written several books and articles. A selection:- 1957 Informatik: Automatische Informationsverarbeitung ("Informatics: automatic information processing").
- 1963 Learning matrices and their applications (together with U. A. W. Piske)
- 1965 A critical comparison of two kinds of adaptive classification networks (together with Bernard WidrowBernard WidrowBernard Widrow is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is the co-inventor of the Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Ted Hoff...
) - 1966 (1969): Die informierte Gesellschaft. Geschichte und Zukunft der Nachrichtentechnik (The informed society. History and Future of telecommunications)
- 1989: Die desinformierte Gesellschaft (The disinformed society)
- 1968: Falsch programmiert. Über das Versagen unserer Gesellschaft in der Gegenwart und vor der Zukunft und was eigentlich geschehen müßte. (as a bestseller listet in: DER SPIEGELDer SpiegelDer Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...
) (Programmed falsely. About our society's failure in the present and with respect to the future and what should be done.) - 1969: Programm 2000. (as a bestseller listet in: DER SPIEGELDer SpiegelDer Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...
) - 1971: Automat und Mensch. Auf dem Weg zu einer kybernetischen Anthropologie (Machine and Man. On the way to a cybernetic anthropology; 4th revised edition)
- 1971: Mensch Technik Zukunft. Probleme von Morgen (German non-fiction book award) (Man Technology Future. Problems of Tomorrow)
- 1973: Kurskorrektur (Correcting the Course)
- 1978: Maßlos informiert. Die Enteignung des Denkens (Excessively informed. The Deprivation of Thinking)
- 1984: Unsere manipulierte Demokratie. Müssen wir mit der linken Lüge leben? (Our Thought-controlled Democracy. Do we have to live with the leftist lie?)
External links
- http://xputers.informatik.uni-kl.de/papers/publications/karl-steinbuch.html
- http://helios.informatik.uni-kl.de/euology.pdf