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Wilfried Brauer - Wikipedia

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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^[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:

Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966)^[5]
IFIP Silver Core (1986)
honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg (1996)^[6]
Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000)^[5]
IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002)^[7]
honorary doctor of the Freie Universität Berlin (2004)^[8]
One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (2014, posthumous).^[9]

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.
^ ^a ^b "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

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