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German computer scientist (1937–2014)
Wilfried Brauer 1995
Wilfried Brauer (8 August 1937 – 25 February 2014
[1] ) was a German
computer scientist and
professor emeritus at
Technical University of Munich .
[2]
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 .
[3] 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 .
[4]
He received several awards and honours:
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.
[1] , retrieved on February 9th, 2021
^
"IFIP Newsletter" (PDF) . March 1999.
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a
b
"Ehrendoktorwürde für Prof. Wilfried Brauer (in German)" . www.uni-protokolle.de .
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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
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