| Wilfried Brauer | |
|---|---|
 Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute Brauer in 1979, in the Landerzeughaus in Graz | |
| Born | (1937-08-08)8 August 1937 Berlin, Prussia |
| Died | 25 February 2014(2014-02-25) (aged 76) Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer scientist |
| Institutions | Technical University of Munich |
| Thesis | Zur Theorie der pro-endlichen Gruppen (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wolfgang Krull |
| Doctoral students | Sepp Hochreiter |
Wilfried Brauer (8 August 1937 – 25 February 2014) was a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich.
Life and work
Brauer studied Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He received a PhD in Mathematics 1966 from the University of Bonn for a dissertation on the theory of profinite groups.
Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute were two of the 19 founding members of the German Informatics Society. From 1998 to 2001, he was chairman of the German Informatics Society. From 1994 to 1999, he was vice president of the International Federation of Information Processing.
He received several awards and honours:
- Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966)
- IFIP Silver Core (1986)
- honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg (1996)
- Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000)
- IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002)
- honorary doctor of the Freie Universität Berlin (2004)
- One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (2014, posthumous).
Publications
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 Krull)
- with Klaus Indermark: Algorithmen, Rekursive Funktionen und Formale Sprachen (in German), 1968.
- Automatentheorie (in German), Teubner 1984.
- with Friedrich L. Bauer 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 Science Volume 1, Springer 1973
- Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Series Editors: Brauer, W., Hromkovič, J., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., publisher's page.
References
- "GI honorary member Wilfried Brauer passed away (in German)". Gesellschaft für Informatik. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- Christian Freksa, Matthias Jantzen, Rüdiger Valk (Eds.): Foundations of Computer Science: Potential - Theory - Cognition, to Wilfried Brauer on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1337 Springer 1997, ISBN 3-540-63746-X
- Fritz Krückeberg: Die Geschichte der GI, S. 14; 2. Auflage, November 2001, Gesellschaft für Informatik. , retrieved on February 9th, 2021
- "IFIP Newsletter" (PDF). March 1999.
- ^ "Ehrendoktorwürde für Prof. Wilfried Brauer (in German)". www.uni-protokolle.de.
- Granting of honorary doctorate for Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Wilfried Brauer (in German)
- "IFIP Newsletter" (PDF). September 2002.
- FU-Berlin: Institut für Informatik: Wilfried Brauer
- "EATCS names 2014 fellows", Milestones: Computer Science Awards, Appointments, Communications of the ACM, 58 (1): 24, January 2015, doi:10.1145/2686734
External links
- "Wilfried Brauer Bibliography". The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography. Retrieved May 9, 2009.
- Wilfried Brauer at the mathematics genealogy project