Wilfried Brauer
Encyclopedia
Wilfried Brauer is a German
computer scientist
and professor emeritus
at Technical University of Munich
. From 1998 to 2001, he was chairman of Gesellschaft für Informatik, the German computer science society. From 1994 to 1999, he was vice president of the International Federation of Information Processing.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
computer scientist
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
and professor emeritus
Emeritus
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at Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich
The Technische Universität München is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan...
. From 1998 to 2001, he was chairman of Gesellschaft für Informatik, the German computer science society. From 1994 to 1999, he was vice president of the International Federation of Information Processing.
Awards and honours
- Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966)
- IFIP Silver Core (1986)
- honorary doctor of the University of HamburgUniversity of HamburgThe University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...
(1996) - Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000)
- IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002)
- honorary doctor of the Freie Universität Berlin (2004)
Books
Below is a selection of books written by Brauer.- Über das Turingsche Modell einer Rechenmaschine und den Begriff des Algorithmus, Diploma Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 1962
- Zur Theorie der pro-endlichen Gruppen. Doctorate Thesis, Universität Bonn, 1968 (Advisor: Wolfgang KrullWolfgang KrullWolfgang Krull was a German mathematician working in the field of commutative algebra.He was born in Baden-Baden, Imperial Germany and died in Bonn, West Germany.- See also :* Krull dimension* Krull topology...
) - with Klaus Indermark: Algorithmen, Rekursive Funktionen und Formale Sprachen (in German), 1968.
- Automatentheorie (in German), Teubner 1984.
- with Friedrich L. BauerFriedrich L. BauerFriedrich Ludwig Bauer is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich.-Life:...
and H. Schwichtenberg: Logic and Algebra of Specifications, 1993
Editorship
- Wilfried Brauer (ed.): Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 3. Jahrestagung, Hamburg, 8.-10. Oktober 1973. Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceLecture Notes in Computer ScienceLecture Notes in Computer Science is a series of computer science books that has been published by Springer Science+Business Media since 1973....
Volume 1, Springer 1973 - Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Series Editors: Brauer, W., Hromkovič, J.Juraj HromkovicJuraj Hromkovič is a Slovak Computer Scientist and Professor at ETH Zürich. He is the author of numerous monographs and scientific publications in the field of algorithmics, computational complexity theory, and randomization.- Biography :...
, Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A.Arto SalomaaArto Salomaa is a Finnish mathematician andcomputer scientist. His research career, which spans over forty years,is focused on formal languages and automata theory.A 2004 citation stated that...
, publisher's page.
External links
- Wilfried Brauer at the mathematics genealogy project